Street & Church .
Aldama, night
view.
I don’t know if it’s me or the
altered reality I live in. I see SMA differently
than what it may be. Colors, designs, nuances,
themes, light and dark, black and white, it all
seems to be a little different than the world from
which I came.
I like color and I include black and white in my
color taste. Although some images look better in
black and white. What is it that’s better? Drama,
punch, selectivity, isolation, definition? So how
do I make the decision whether a photo will
be in color or black and white? Somehow the
photo tells me... I just need to be open to seeing
and hearing what it tells me.
I like drama in my photos. To me that means
“painting in light.” Take for example the black
and white photo “Street & Church” looking up
the calle Zacateros toward the dome of the
nuns church... That photo was shot at 11 am...
I downloaded to Lightroom and Photoshop
then converted the daylight scene to a night
image and highlighted the walls, streets and
sky with white using a digital brush; lit the street