ERIC KIM

How to Conquer Monochrome

Monochrome for us in photography is to be conquered:

Conquer your aesthetic

The goal is to ‘master your aesthetics‘. If monochrome is our passion and style, then the goal is to master it:

Why I am so passionate about monochrome

For me, the world is more beautiful in monochrome. My theory:

For us as artists, we don’t like the world as it is… we seek to re-transfigure it and re-configure it to our personal liking.

Control the exposure

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The best thing you can do artistically is to control exposure. To experiment going ‘as dark as possible‘ with minus-exposure compensation (-1, -2, -3) in harsh bright sunlight.

Study monochrome to master it.

Study the great monochrome art works of the past– zen calligraphy, monochrome films (7 Samurai), the great monochrome photographers of the past (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon).

Strive to conquer monochrome

Make it your personal quest and goal to conquer monochrome– and you will.

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