Temptation of Colors in Photography

Though I love colors – hot colors – it has always been a challenge to capture them, fun but tough challange.

Though I belive black & white is one of the hardest branches in photography, many people uses color-dead photos to cover their art’s imperfections. To me art is only perfect with all the intentional mistakes; and art is art ony with its colors whether they are black and white.

Capturing light, focusing on objects, creating a compositon out of no where, capturing the moment as you see… Nothing else but this is art.

Even a black & white photo is only good if it can make you imagine the frame in color. You may not not see the color but you have to sense it. This is why, it is hard to take black and white photos.

Why I don’t take black & white photos; simple… First of all I do not have that much of imagination and I respect the photographers who respect their art in black and white; second of all there are so many people out there who think that they can become artists shooting inacceptable photos covering their unintentional mistakes by switching their camera’s black & white shooting mode on.

• Photographer

  Can Berkol

• Location

  Türkiye, İstanbul, Ortaköy

• Assignments & Events

  Not Available

• Models

  Melis Oğuz

• Styles

  Silhouettes

• Tags

  beer, dinner, mexican

• Equipment

  Canon 5D
  Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

• Shooting Specs.

  Date Published: December 28, 2008
  Aperture: f/1.8
  Shutter Speed: 1/40
  ISO: 800
  Focal Length: 50 mm
  

• Post-Processing

  Contrast added.

• Notes

  She was drinking beer and I saw this frame. Then I took out my camera watched her and waited for the right moment.