Your Photography Assignment: AS DARK AS POSSIBLE (ADAP)

Dear friend,

A focus this week for you:

Focus on making photos as dark as possible (ADAP), and practice with highlight weighted metering.

Why darker is better

When I think about my photos, my favorite photos are the high contrast black and white ones, in which I ‘crush the blacks‘. In the past when I post processed my photos, I would either use filters (presets) or would process my photos to slide the ‘blacks’ to the maximum, same with contrast. And why did I love this aesthetic? Because it made my photos look more mysterious. And the more ‘disclear’ and mysterious my photos, the better.

How to apply this

When shooting street photography, either meter your photos -1 or -2 exposure compensation, or try the new highlight weighted metering on RICOH GR III.

The general gist:

Keep making your exposure compensation as dark as possible, until you can barely make out what is good.

One of the best photographers doing this is Rinzi Ruiz // his website.

Upload your best dark photos to arsbeta.com

Once you got your best ‘as dark as possible’ photos, upload them to arsbeta.com >

DARK GEAR

HAPTIC SUPPLY:

ERIC WRIST STRAP MARK II (brass closure, phantom black leather)
HENRI NECK STRAP MARK IV (available in PHANTOM BLACK)
THE MUSE.: black on black on black, with crocodile leather and Vachetta leather (same leather used on Louis Vuitton bags).

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Monochrome literature

Books on monochrome:

Monochrome by Kim // PDF
Monochrome Manual // PDF DL

More monochrome >

MEXICO CITY

If you’re hungry for street photography adventure, check out my upcoming MEXICO CITY travel street photography adventure, December 18-19th, 2021 >

Thoughts on my mind

Thinking about Ethereum and NFT. Trying to figure out how to build ARS Ethereum, or ARS photo chain (putting photos on the blockchain). Or ‘photo link‘.
Focusing on generation, not consumption.
Napping on a plane (no audio or visual stimulation) is good to provoke thoughts. Plane thoughts.
Antidote to gloominess is being social.
Street photographers should become better at making small talk.