Monchrome Madness – Florals with no colour

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1. Beautiful post 🌹

   1. Thank you.

   2. Welcome 🙏freinds

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3. Flowers are color and that’s beautiful, but in B&W we experience the shapes, the textures, the light, and as icelandpenny says, the sculptures. You have done marvelously well to bring that side of the floral world to life.

   1. Very well said Ludwig, I totally agree, you do see all that. Thank you so much Ludwig.

4. I think you may have outdone yourself. These are all just astounding. The luminance is amazing. Have you ever seen any of Edward Weston’s work? He did a lot of still lifes and was a real master of monochrome. Your photos remind me a bit of his.

   1. Thank you so much Tim. No I haven’t seen his work, I will have to look him up. I really want to get into doing more still life during the summer.
      Just went and had a look, wow, his work is stunning.

5. I usually don’t like robbing flowers of their colours but I gave it a go. I like your dark visions of blooms.

   1. It is nice to try it, I’ve seen some really beautiful black and white ones. Thank you Elke.

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7. These florals in monochrome are so amazingly beautiful 🙂

   1. Thank you so much Hammad.

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9. Lovely! I forget every time to try this with florals :-).

   1. Thank you PR, maybe you can try next week.

10. B&W is one solution, photographing flowers very early or in the evening, when the light is much softer, is an other solution for making macro shots during summertime. But you can not compare them, B&W is so different from color and deserve both their place in photography.

    1. I try to do that in that light, but many flowers here don’t open up until the sun comes out so that makes it hard. I do hate sun on them though and have a diffuser to help stop that. I agree, thank you Rudi.

11. All very striking. You have really brought out the shape and texture of these.

    1. Thank you RJ, I guess that is a good thing about monochrome.

12. I didn’t think of monochrome for flowers until I’ve realised it was a good way to edit the ones that were under a too bright light for my liking. Your photos are beautiful. I agree with Anne, you have a better notion of textures.
    Here is mine, also a flower:
    https://photographias.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/monochrome-madness-fuchsia/

    1. That is a good idea Sofia, thank you so much.

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14. Beautiful floral monochrome photography Leanne!

    1. Thank you Ritva.

15. Spectacular Leanne. What a fabulous gallery 👍😄
    Here is my contribution
    https://bushboy.blog/2023/11/08/frangipanni-time/

    1. Thank you so much Brian.

16. I like to take pics under a bright sunny sky as well as the occasional gray days. Your work is always wonderful, Leanne! 🥰🇦🇺

    1. I don’t like bright and sunny, but I think you know that, lol. Thank you so much John.

    2. I sure do, Leanne. You’re welcome as always. ☺️❤️

    3. 😀 😀

    4. ☺️☺️☺️

17. I think these are beautiful in black and white, Leanne–especially your first photo. So delicate.

    1. Thank you so much Lois, glad you like them. Cosmos are beautiful.

18. White flowers against a dark background can be interesting in black & white, but I don’t otherwise like landscapes or flowers in monochrome. Probably because flowers ARE color, the essence of it. But — white flowers are different.

    1. Yeah, I get what you mean Marilyn, but in some way in monochrome you get to see the form and textures more without the distraction of colour. I don’t know, I’m sitting on the fence. I will keep doing them and see hwo I go. Thank you Marilyn.

19. I love these, especially those water lilies. Sublime!

    1. Thank you Tracy, that one turned out well.

20. I really like your processing of flowers in black and white. I hadn’t thought about doing this and will certainly give it a try!😉📷

    1. Thank you Donna, I like doing my flowers like this, I hope you like doing it to yours as well.

21. Stunning!

    1. Thank you.

22. I’m happy with B&W flowers, once I stop thinking of them as flowers and appreciate them instead as sculptures

    1. I like that idea Penny, I think b&w makes you look at the textures and shapes so much more, but the sculpture idea is pure genius.

23. These are all stunning!

    1. Thank you Jim.

24. I love florals in black and white. You can focus on the veins and folds and intricate patterns and not be disturbed by the colour 😉

    1. So very true Michael. you do do that a lot more. Thank you.

25. Leanne, these are beautiful in black and white. You not only see, but you can feel, the texture of the petals. Color tends to have the viewer concentrate on the colors instead.

    1. Thank you Anne, I think in some ways that is what is good about black and white, you really see the textures more.

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