Variations on a Theme

This article explores variations in three aspects of photography‚ the option of converting a colour original into a B&W print; how to "work" a photographic situation so as to explore the variations that different lenses can produce on perspective, and as well, how a short passage of time can dramatically change the context of a composition.

Colour Vs Black & White

Though I use colour film 99% of the time when doing landscape and nature photography I usually prefer to shoot in B&W when doingdocumentary or street shooting.

I recently spent an afternoon shooting at acountry fair, but as I began found that the camera bodies that I was using were both already loaded with transparency film. Rather than waste the balance of the rolls I simply shot with them until they were done. The frames below were the only ones on these rolls that I liked, in fact I liked them a lot. But I found that the use of colour doesn't contribute m...