Here I used low-key photography to represent one of my favourite female literary characters. This week you are asked to make a low-key photograph. You can shoot it as such or maybe obtain the chiaroscuro effect in post processing. As a linguist I will also appreciate alternative interpretations of low-key that do not necessarily imply contrast spot lighting, so you can approach the subject as “discrete”, “secretive”, “understated”. You know that the choice is all yours. Leave the links to your posts in the comment section and link to this challenge in your post.
P.S. The attached music is not from La Traviata, but from the movie La storia vera della signora delle camelie (another movie made after the Dumas’s literary masterpiece) composed by Ennio Morricone.
Check out the entries for this challenge by clicking on the links bellow:
https://travelwithintent.com/2016/03/20/low-key-at-noho
https://photographyplusblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/summers-end
https://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/bw-sunday-kongens-garde
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.hr/2016/03/b-sunday_20.html
https://suejudd.com/2016/03/20/black-and-white-sunday-low-key
https://lucidgypsy.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/black-and-white-sunday-low-key
https://thepisceanme.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/low-key-black-white-photography
http://daffodilhillphotography.com/2016/03/21/black-white-sunday-loki
https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/low-key/
https://sonyavdg.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/black-white-sunday-low-key
What a wonderful theme, Paula. And your lovely shot is a great example
Not a thing I’ve ever really thought about in photography, though I have edited in this manner a couple of times without really thinking about it.
Not only have you given me a technique to learn about, but I now have a book to add to my reading list. And what will I post? I have an idea…
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I like your idea and I am very glad to have introduced this theme which resulted in stunning entries like yours.
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She’s beautiful, Paula!
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She would be happy to hear you, Linda 🙂 Thank you.
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♥ Great post about some low key happiness …I will think about it. Its still Saturday here. Good morning !
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Good Sunday morning Kathryn. Thank you for your nice comment. I would be happy to have an entry from you.
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Ok I am working today. Must..think..think..think 🙂
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Ennio Morricone… an extraordinary composer/arranger. Your photo rivals his music!
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You are very kind, Eric. Thank you. 🙂
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Such alovely doll so elegantly dressed. Here is my response to the challenge . Thank you for the opportunity to have some fun processing an image.
https://photographyplusblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/summers-end/
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You did a wonderful job, Suzanne. Thank you and I’m very glad you liked my image and theme.
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Thanks Paula. I love your photos of your doll. My childhood doll is in pieces in a cupboard (she’s one of those old kind that are held together with big rubber bands.) Everytime I see your doll photos I think I must get her fixed. It would cost a lot though as she needs new hair too. Poor darling has been over loved by too many boisterous children. 🙂
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No doll can survive intact that long. The doll you see in this post is one of 10 I have captured and already published on this blog. They were all purchased a couple of years ago. Porcelain dolls are not for kids.
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Mine’s a very old doll purchased from Italy in the 1950s. I love the ones you feature. Maybe I will have to take up doll collecting. 🙂
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I always enjoy looking at your shots of this doll Paula. Have a wonderful Sunday.
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This is Marguerite’s premiere on my blog :). Thank you, Colline. Hope your weekend was restful.
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It is the other that I have seen then 🙂
The weekend was good. Now it is back to work routine after a break from sschool for a week.
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It could have been any of the other nine 😀 and there still remain another 5 for me to capture 😉 Good thing about working at school is holidays. I just get next Monday off.
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The things you can do with a doll!! Everything in this post works together beautifully – photo, music, words and quote. I’m a fan of low key in whatever mode.
Thank you for reminding me of “La traviata” – it was one of the few soundtracks of my childhood, an LP record. That long ago!
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I did not know you were fan of low key, Meg. Thank you for the nice comment. It is much appreciated.
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That’s beautiful . It’s going to take a bit of thinking about what I can do this week
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Nice to hear from you, Sonya. I know that you’ll come up with something beautiful.
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🙂 I think I’ve got an idea, but I’ll need to wait till Friday before I’ll be home when the light is right
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🙂 I am very curious to see it, Sonya.
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Beautiful, I really like low-key photo. It often brings an atmospheric and mystic mood to the image.
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Cheers, Lena. I’m happy you like the theme.
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This is so beautiful, Paula, love the light and use of negative space a lot here!
Enjoy your sunday,
Ron
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Much obliged for your kind words, Ron 🙂
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Love your chiaroscuro doll, Paula….and I agree with Meg re everything working nicely in this post. Once I have eased myself into the day, I shall hunt around for an appropriate image or two.
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🙂 🙂
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You’ve done it again! Staggeringly beautiful in an understated way. Thank you for enhancing Sunday, Paula. 🙂
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You’re a doll yourself for being such an early visitor. Hope your Sunday is good, Jo.
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cute with all the tiny details achieved with good light.
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2016/03/b-sunday_20.html
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Great post, Paula and the photo is a “capolavoro”!
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🙂 Grazie, Anna.
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Lovely, Paula…
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Thanks Lor. Enjoy your Sunday!
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That sounds like an awesome book…and a photograph to match the mood!
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Hope you’re having a great Sunday Paula! I’ve managed to fit in the gym, a jam session with an ukulele player, making dinner, plus starting the process of setting up a web shop. A hectic day of rest!
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Do you have any plans for Easter? Do you have many days off work?
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No, Max. Just Monday. It’s hay fever season. I just want to sleep.
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We have Thursday, Friday and Monday off. I’m looking forward to spend some quality time with the kid.
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Hi Paula, what a cool challenge. I’ve had a go with a Gothic kind of edit.https://lucidgypsy.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/black-and-white-sunday-low-key/
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This is a very interesting a visually pleasing result. Thanks a lot, Gilly. I am glad you could join in.
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Such an awesome theme Paula, Enjoyed taking a part in this 🙂 Though I did not get a perfect pic but still enjoyed searching for pics from my archive for this theme!
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Une jolie photo d’une de tes jolies poupées. 🙂
(Il faudra quand même que je lise La dame aux camélias un jour…)
😉
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I love the use of light in your capture and I hope you like my take on this challenge. This week I tried but the fun in dysfunctional…….. http://daffodilhillphotography.com/2016/03/21/black-white-sunday-loki/
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I do, John. I am very glad you like the photo and that it inspired you to play some more 🙂
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Low key: “discrete”, “secretive”, “understated”. Well, I never considered myself that way. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love the photo. I wish I could never regret my life choices.
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😀 But you have to be secretive when you are out with you camera. That makes two of us (or more I am sure). Persons that live without regrets are rare.
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Interesting subject Paula. I must confess I don’t much like porcelain dolls, they scare me! I’m afraid I have used another flower for your challenge this week. I do like low-key photography and must try to get shots of other subjects to use, I tried with a sheep but the background wasn’t dark enough and as the sheep has a black face it didn’t really work. Oh, well. Hope you like this one:
https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/low-key/
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Most porcelain dolls are creepy, but this is not the case with my literary characters collection.
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When I wrote my comment it disappeared and the page could not be found. I don’t know what is happening. I love the delicate and atmospheric shot of your blooms, Sonya.
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Paula, this image is a beautiful play of light and shadows. I love how you’ve brought out the contours of her face through controlled use of light. Very nicely done.
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🙂 Thank you so much. Please take care.
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Les ombres et la lumière sont bien gérés, excellent travail ツ
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Je te remercie d’avoir passe tant de temps et d’avoir investi tant d’interet dans mon blog. ツ
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Mais je t’en prie ツ
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