Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colorful monotone
I like monotone. I often wear outfits that are essentially monotone and my home decor tends to be tone-on-tone too. I choose clothing — and furniture — so that each part of the outfit or decor blends (rather than stands out) as a variant hue of a base color.
Garry asks me why I don’t dress with more contrast. He loves contrast … bright against dark.
I can’t give a sensible answer. I love the subtlety of tone on tone. I always have. In the end, I guess we don’t need reasons to like what we like.
I prefer subtle shading to big splashes of color. Probably why I’ve never pursued HDR. Perhaps it’s because I started out learning photography on a completely manual camera using black and white film.
More likely, I always had that preference and all it took was a medium — photography — to bring it out.
Be that as it may, this challenge was made for me. Thank you Cee!
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Woah! This is really something. Your photos are always great but this top.
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Thanks. It really helps to be someplace beautiful first thing in the morning 🙂
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That really is a superb gallery of monochrome.
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Thank you. I was pleasantly surprised — and lucky — to find my archives contained a richer supply of material than I had suspected.
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The archives are always worth a trawl through – it’s surprising sometimes what little gems we find that were long forgotten about!
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It’s one the best things about challenges. They give one a reason to go poking around the archives. When I backed up my photographs last week, I discovered I have 100,000 pictures. I think I remember maybe 100 of them.
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That sounds familiar!
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I was actually shocked to discover I had that many pictures. I probably could delete half of them and never notice, but I know I won’t. Deleting is hard!
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Great photos Marilyn. Very colourful monotones.
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Thanks 🙂
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Oh Marilyn you out did yourself this week. I am in love with the swans. Although I really like all your photos. 🙂
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Thanks, Cee. This was a challenge for which I had (it turned out) more material than I expected!
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Back in the late 40’s and early 50’s, poverty row movie studios which couldn’t afford technicolor, used cheaper things like trucolor, cinecolor, super-cinecolor, etc. These were interesting in their hues, often looking like early mono chrome moving pictures.
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I don’t think I’ve seen many of these … maybe none, come to think of it. Could be an interesting artistic statement.
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Splendid pictures and I love the mono tone. They would make lovely paintings.
Leslie
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Yes, they would. I wish I were a painter, sometimes, but I tried that. I do not have the patience necessary to do it well and I won’t do it badly. My mother would have done it in oils 🙂
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Such beautiful images Marilyn. I tend to dress monotone mostly too, but when I do wear contrast people always comment how great it looks. I think I like the understated more than the pop of wow. Just like the snow on the ground this first day of April, in contrast with the green grass. Arghhhhhhh
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Our snow is not patchy now. Not a solid cover. I’m hoping today’s bright sunshine clears more of it away. Winter is like Jason from the Halloween movies, the bad guy who just keeps coming back.
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This first photo is incredible.
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That morning mist is breathtaking😍
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Where was this taken? I just can’t stop looking at it. I think I’ve viewed it four or five times now. You know scenery pictures, after a while, can start to seem more of the same–including my scenery pictures–but this one is really special.
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I took it in Vermont last October early in the morning. The mist disappears by 9 or so.
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