Monolithic Color: Black

Challenge #18 in the Ways of Seeing series. Hosted by jezsik.

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Show us a color image that says "Black!" Show us lots and lots of black. Black on black is ideal, but make sure we can tell that it's a color image. Is your image black enough? If a viewer doesn't say "Whoa, that's really black!" then it's not black enough.

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Announced:

Saturday, 14th November, 2009 (GMT)

Submissions:

Saturday, 21st November, 2009 – Friday, 27th November, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Saturday, 28th November, 2009 – Friday, 4th December, 2009 (GMT)

Processing rules:

No borders or watermarks.
No composite images.
Color images only, no B&W or toned images.
No artificially colored images (you really have to capture a black image, not just create one in your editing software).
Retouch as required, but avoid flattening the image with curves and level adjustments (really photograph something black).

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

If your image looks like it's B&W even though it's color, include a note to that fact otherwise a complaint might be issued against your image.
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The Visitor

by Manuaalitarkennus

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Playing with texture, light, aperture and reflections... A table, a tray and some Go-game stones, all black - this is a color photo with no color.

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D
Lens:	EF 100mm macro f/2.8 USM
Submitted:	Saturday, 21st November, 2009 07:48 (GMT)
Taken:	Saturday, 14th November, 2009
Focal length:	100 mm
Shutter speed:	1/5 sec
Aperture:	F3.5
ISO:	1600
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Views:	1981

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Total comments: 2

Thank you jezsik, I really appreciate your comment. I've "always" loved to play with depth of field.

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Excellent use of an almost non-existent depth of field. This is a very memorable image.

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