Snow cover graphics. Whiter than white

All photographers know the techniques of shooting in low and high keys. Low key - maximum dark areas, underexposure. In a high key, respectively, everything is emphasized on the most light colors. When the exposure is in the middle, it’s an ordinary photography.

These two techniques as a way to convey ordinary things in an unusual way. I have been using them successfully for a long time. Low key can be called shooting at night, and in high key I like to make snowy minimalistic pictures or landscapes in bright pastel colors.

These two graphic series are opposite as light and shadow, as day and night, as paradise and hell. These are the same pictures, only processed differently. In this case, processing is very similar to overexposing photos. Here you need to bring the histogram as close as possible to the bright areas, but not to lose the details. Yes, there are details!

These pictures can be attributed to minimalistic textures rather than graphics.

I used to call all conceptual and experimental series graphics. It's easier.

In graphic series, the brain should always be in good shape, and the mind should lose the line between reality and delirium.

All photos are color. None of the light series has been translated into bw.

The only photograph where there is a plot, object and composition is a photo with a straw.

Any object that is different in nature, composition and texture from snow will create a photograph close to full-fledged. Everything that is homogeneous is just a texture.

But the series is called: snow cover graphics.

The dark version of this series was designed to show exactly the texture of the snow cover and surface roughness.

The light version should convey lightness, a barely noticeable volume and a texture almost invisible to the eye.

Both exist in nature. When the view is generalized and diffused, the texture of snow is not visible (sometimes you drive by car on such a road and you don’t understand where you go. Pits are not visible on the road). And if you look closely, the texture will be distinguishable.

The light version is closer to reality.

But is our world around us the only possible reality?