Shel Belinkoff asked:

> I know how to control contrast and tonality with B&W film, but how
> does one do it with color?  For example, there's a piece of artwork
> that I'd like to photograph.  It's rusted metal and the background
> is green grass.  I'd like to photograph it in such a way that the
> grass is much darker and the art work is lighter, resulting in more
> contrast between the two.  Is this possible?

a polarizer filter, a stopped down lens and flash could go a long way toward getting it done. Polarizer to darken the grass and saturate the colors, stopped down lens and flash to accentuate the foreground and minimized the background.

Tom Reese




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