Scavenger Hunt #39 – High key/low key

Published on by Balise

The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “High key/low key”.

Two images of a rose, side by side, one very dark on a black background, the other one very bright on a white background. Bothe roses look somewhat symmetrical to each other, pointing to the middle-bottom of the whole picture.

I was wondering if there was a way to use the same image for both and let the processing play on the high/low key, but it didn’t feel like something I wanted to explore with that little time. So I took two pictures – and yeah, both are vastly underexposed because I was working without a tripod.

My images were initially not looking symmetrical to one another, so I flipped the lowkey one, because it looked better side by side 🙂

An almost completely black picture, where one might discern some very dark rose petals and leaves.
CameraPentax K-1 II
Lenssmc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
Focal length100mm
F-NumberF/8
Exposure time1/100 s
ISO800

An underexposed picture of a rose on a white table
CameraPentax K-1 II
Lenssmc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
Focal length100mm
F-NumberF/8
Exposure time1/100 s
ISO800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Low key/high key

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