I have been actively avoiding black and white street photography because I feel the genre is somewhat overdone and images I see are often clich\u00e9d.<\/p>\n
Street images are often full of colour and the idea of giving up all that beautiful colour for the sake of a style or an expectation of style seems a little contrarian.<\/p>\n
Regardless, every now and then I like to try something in black and white. Not because ‘it works better in B&W’, an expression which makes me cringe whenever I hear it, but because I love the tones and textures and that caught my attention.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the two ideas amount to the same thing in choosing to go B&W but for me I need to know why I have made this choice as much as liking the feel of it.<\/p>\n
The Haubis Backstube on Landstra\u00dfe in Linz caught my eye, or perhaps it was my nose, as we strolled passed. The man behind the counter caught my gaze and a moment later we were gone.<\/p>\n
It’s nice to re-live this ever so brief moment and those black and white textures and tone help me to remember why I captured it.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Guten Tag’, 1\/250s f\/4 ISO800 17mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been actively avoiding black and white street photography because I feel the genre is somewhat overdone and images I see are often clich\u00e9d. Street images are often full of colour and the idea of giving up all that beautiful colour for the sake of a style or an expectation of style seems a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1275,1319,173,662,21,1295,154,1145,1320,893],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-austria","tag-bakery","tag-blackandwhite","tag-cafe","tag-food","tag-linz","tag-street","tag-streetphotography","tag-textures","tag-tones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}