An Experiment

While visiting the National Gallery of Scotland on a college trip this is a photo I took of just in front of the gallery. I took this because I liked the way the hills were shaped and how you could see the refection of the hills and trees on the pond because of the way the sun shined on the pond. This is the photo in colour.

 

 I wanted to experiment with the colour, making it black and white, so this is what I done. I first took this photo and put it on Microsoft office 2010 and went to edit photos. I went to saturation and then I turned the saturation to -100 so it took all the colour away, it ended up looking like this.

 

 

After doing that I decided I wanted to play around with the brightness, contrast and mid tones to see what it looked like. First I experimented with the brightness, turning it up all the way so it was really bright and then really low so it was really dark and then done the same thing again with the contrast and mid tones. After doing this for a while I ended up with this.

 

 

Here I left the brightness at -5, contrast at 15 and mid tone at -2. When I turned the contrast up, the ground and the pillars at the front became darker and so to me they stood out more so they were the first things i noticed when I looked, and also the pond became a little bit darker to. As for the hills and the trees, no matter which way I turned the contrast, brightness and mid tones they either became really dark or just grey, so they were blending into the sky so it was harder to see the trees and the hills clearly. I don't think the colour, black and white or tonal values I think its called is very good, or even the composition, but it was just an experiment.