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The stunning New Forest - new landscape photography in Hampshire by Rick McEvoy — The stunning New Forest – new landscape photography in Hampshire by Rick McEvoy

The New Forest – the starburst sunshine picture in black and white – more new landscape photography in Hampshire

I love the colour version of this image. And I really like this black and white picture. I like the feel of this image.

I am delighted with the outcome of this image, and am proud to be able to produce such work.

I hope you all like this image.

However.

I am not going to talk in this post about the processing in Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro. Instead I am going to talk (well when I say talk I of course mean write, but I write how I talk anyway – you know what I mean!) about something completely different.

Finding my own style of black and white landscape photography

Oh no I hear you all groan.

Where did that come from?

Well this is where I am coming from.

I have been looking at my black and white imagery. And there is a style emerging. I am enjoying my black and white experimentation, but have decided today that I need to settle on a style. And that got me thinking.

How do I do that?

This is how I think I might do this.

I have produced a lot of black and white architectural photography work. And also lots of black and white interior photography work.

But what I want to do is produce a consistent style of black and white landscape photography.

Consistent style being the key words here.

No key words. Not keywords. That is an altogether more boring subject!

I have produced a number of different styles of landscape images, and have decided I am going to try the following to a selection of images.

Bright, light, airy, dreamy.

Dark and moody.
Texture, detail and contrast.

I think three different styles will be enough.

I am going to pick my 10 favourite landscape images, covering the widest possible variety of subjects, and will produce three images. For consistency I will produce new edits of the images in Lightroom, using similar settings and styles on each of the 10 images. I will approach my new friends, cropping and removing things, in a similarly consistent way.

And yes, I know, I have found something new to do. What am I thinking??

Since I had this thought, I have been looking at the content of my blog, and have added this idea to my planned list of contents. I will be producing this new range of monthly content in January, including the monthly development of this idea. I am still going to do this, it will just take longer and be incorporated into my blog posting strategy for 2017.

Back to today’s image finally. I might not have said this before, but I really love this picture.