Girls Bravo

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Wallflower

After moving into the new place I decided to paint our 3 faux walls grey. Picking out the right shade of grey was interesting. The last time I tried grey was at the previous studio and it turned out darker, shinier, and with a tint of blue. This time I walked into Home Depot with a grey card (albeit on my phone) and tried to match greys.

This mostly worked.

Luminosity is really important. More or less than 50% yields a drastically different result. Not all greys are created equally!

And I still somehow wound up with a bit of blue in the paint.

And I’m still in love with B&W. Toning B&W with spectral response and tonal response is so interpretive. Sometimes I think there’s more interpretation in B&W than there is with color. After all, no one sees in B&W so there’s no right or wrong with B&W. Every time you see something in B&W, someone had to make some decisions (even if it’s done automatically in software) regarding how those colors (and light) were translated into shades of grey.

With these images of Katherine I really wanted to push the tonality of her skin. Then I wanted to add contrast to pull out the shades of grey in her skin and the wall behind her.

Speaking of those walls. I need more. 3x 4′x8′ really doesn’t cover enough of her. Which meant I spent way too much time in Photoshop filling in the areas behind her that the walls didn’t quite cover. I’m still testing these walls so maybe I just need to change my working distance a little!