Weekly Black and White Photography Thread 41 (9 Nov 2025)

For me the whole post appears as written by Daneland (as shown as screenshot by Danelend in the post after it). It is indeed very confusing, as it looks like Daneland suggests an alternative edit of the image to himself and the username davidwien is nowhere to be seen in that post. If you see that differently on your end, it would be good to check that out, because it is a massive problem if you can't be sure who posted what... it's not about quoting at all. It's David accidentally posting as Daneland (likely only possible because of Team member status, I assume?).

Here once more a screenshot of what I (and likely others) see:

But the post has Daneland's Name, Avatar and post info up on the top left. That is what SJ is referring to...

And I think his summation that David, as a Team member, was able to (albeit accidentally) edit Daneland's post is correct.

Thank you and yes, that's what I meant!

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Interesting composition. Nice tonality.

Wood is a much more difficult than one would suspect. It appears darker in real life than shows up in B&W photography. I got into a phase where I was hunting out and concentrating on old barns. I had a dickens of a time controlling the rendering of wood. Tree trunks present the same issue especially when a tree trunk is directly lite by sunlight.

I thing I would play around with more contrast and color mixer (playing with red and green) to change the wood. I like the concept and the balanced composition but the wood appearing brighter than the white fence is somewhat distracting.

I imagine this a very challenging scene to shoot, due to the likely various distracting elements in the background and the numerous different shapes and lines. It works very well in B&W however and the stars created by the lights draw enough attention and keep the composition balanced. Excellent work!

I agree - I'd also add that the square format (crop?) works exceptionally well here.

It's a nice looking image. I assume the tilt/shift effect was done in post? If so I'd absolutely recommend checking out a tilt/shift lens or adapter if you have never done that. The real thing adds a completely new way of thinking in terms of composition.

Another shot from my recent trip. Was quite impressed by that Cathedral (Neuer Dom) in Linz:

Simplejoy,

I used a scene mode on my camera called Miniature. You can isolate a portion of your photo and keep it in focus while the rest of your photo is blurred out.

I took the picture in color and converted it to Grayscale in Irfanview.

Steve Thomas

These are some old corrugated iron sheds in Yankalilla, South Australia.

Richard,

Those sheds are nicely done.

Steve Thomas

The use of keystoning works nicely here and results in a very interesting composition.