Feeling the love for black and white

For anyone that has seen any amount of my work, you will notice that the majority are rather vibrant and full of color’s and contrast.  Since that has become my status quo, I’ve been trying to make an effort to broaden my experience and do something different.  With this comes more black and white.  In so many ways, black and white can convey so much more meaning than anything with color.  I feel like I’m channeling a little bit of Kirk Tuck with this portrait.

This is my daughter, who is 18 months old and normally does the exact opposite of what I tell her too when I have a camera in my hand.  When I tell her to say ‘cheese’, she will, but only after she looks away from the camera.  This was shot while I was chasing her around a playground area and she stopped to catch her breath.  The wind was blowing and something just caught her eye.  I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, I get lucky with shots like this.

Of course, no foray into new photography techniques can be complete without a cat picture.  Oh yeah, for the gearheads, these were shot with a Panasonic G3.  Picture up top was with the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 and the cat was with the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7.