From our years of developing flight simulation software, we’ve taken many photographs while traveling in-flight to airports, conventions, trade shows and more. Below are some of these arranged by topic.
Please note that this is a shortcut way to view the photographs from seven different articles that were recently published separately.
Every once in a while I like to experiment with high key black and white photos. A high key photo has most of the mid-tones removed, leaving only the darkest part.
There are basically three ways to do this:
Overexpose the subject leaving little detail of the mid-tones.
Use high contrast film eliminating or minimizing the mid-tones of the original.
Use digital software to achieve a similar effect.
Here are a few examples using all three techniques.
Typically, a photo that is very bright and has almost no shadows is considered to be high key.
Some of these images were processed in the darkroom using high contrast film (they’re from the 1970s) and others were adjusted digitally to make them brighter and to remove the shadows.
Beach Portraithigh key effect of an old scanned photograph using digital software
CandyWhile developing the film, the water got very cold and caused the "reticulation" pattern on the negative. It produced a very surprising and interesting result.
Dunes Portraitscanned transparency using digital software to produce high key effect
Four Part Compositedarkroom produced high key effect using high contrast film from 1970s
Jones Beach Candiddarkroom produced high key using high contrast film
Local Park Portraitscanned negative from 1960's using software to produce high key effect
On the Patiodigitally manipulated to achieve high contrast/high key effect 2022
Sleeping Bear Dunesscanned transparency from 1970s using digital software to produce high key effect
Snow Stormin-camera high key exposure on negative film
T-shirts are an individual’s way of explaining to the world who they are, what products they like, places that they’ve visited, what company they work for, what humors them or the politics that they follow.
Let’s see how these examples fit in to the above description.