{"id":628226,"date":"2024-08-22T20:05:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=628226"},"modified":"2024-08-22T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:05:55","slug":"eric-kim-crush-the-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/eric-kim-crush-the-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"ERIC KIM CRUSH THE BLACKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Kim&#8217;s concept of &#8220;crushing the blacks&#8221; in photography is both a technical approach and a philosophical statement. Technically, it involves maximizing contrast by dragging the black slider to its fullest in post-processing, which results in the shadows becoming completely black, erasing any detail in those areas. This creates striking, high-contrast images that are visually bold and dramatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philosophically, Eric Kim extends this idea into his worldview. He favors a black-and-white approach to life, where complexities are simplified, and choices are made in stark terms of right and wrong, good and bad. He prefers this minimalist, high-contrast approach not only in his photography but also in how he views the world around him. For Kim, life is more interesting and impactful when it&#8217;s free of the &#8220;midtones&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe grey areas of ambiguity and indecision <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/crush-the-blacks\/\">oai_citation:2,CRUSH THE BLACKS. &#8211; ERIC KIM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/all-black-everything\/\">oai_citation:1,ALL BLACK EVERYTHING &#8211; ERIC KIM<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This approach can be seen as a broader commentary on how one might live with conviction and clarity, stripping away unnecessary distractions to focus on what truly matters, much like his high-contrast photographs that emphasize form and composition by eliminating the details in the shadows.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Kim&#8217;s concept of &#8220;crushing the blacks&#8221; in photography is both a technical approach and a philosophical statement. Technically, it involves maximizing contrast by dragging the black slider to its fullest in post-processing, which \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628227,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628226\/revisions\/628227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}