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Here are a couple of my favorite B & W images using a rangefinder.
The first shot is of an architectural feature of one of the buildings at Ohio State. The architect left a hole in the cement overhang that covers the entrance to the building. The hole has ivy growing down into the hole, but you can typically see the sky through the hole. I made this image B & W partly so it was not clear whether you were looking down or looking up without the blue sky as a cue, which I think gives the image a bit of intrigue and makes you look more closely. Also the cement and the ivy (this was in late Fall so there weren't any leaves on the ivy) lent themselves to interesting contrast, but not interesting color.
The second shot is of a sidewalk near my place in Columbus, OH. I found the brick pattern interesting, but not for it color but for the contrast. By making the shot B & W I thought it drew the eye down the sidewalk rather than away to the sides, which had some pretty ugly colored vegetation. All in all, it seemed to me a much stronger image in B & W than in color
LEICA M10 Apo-Summicron-M 1:2/50 ASPH. lens 50mm 9s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
The EXIF is wrong on this shot. It was taken with the Voigtlander 28 f/2 II and the aperture was f/5.6
LEICA M10 Tele-Elmarit 1:2.8/90 lens 90mm f/3.4 1/250s 200 ISO 0.0 EV
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