Night-time in Black and White and more Black

Written by eklastic

Welcome to the first time that I’m hosting Monochrome Madness. For more information on the challenge, please visit Leanne’s site.

The theme I’ve picked for this week is Night-time (or possibly, nighttime, or night time, depending on your dictionary of choice).

Night-time photos can be (almost) monochrome from the start. In any case, they play on stark contrasts.

Why not use some dark humour?

Just joking. But I thought the Man in the Moon was funny.

Nighttime pics can be crisp like this street scene from Edinburgh.

Or you can play around with a long shutter time, creating abstract and/or soft effects.

Buildings look different at nighttime but watch out for spotlights that can wash out any defining details.

A danger that is easier to circumvent when concentrating on a smaller object like this sculpture of a raven in Ladenburg.

And of course I just had to include some photos from last weekend where we attended a signal fire night – I explained what that is here: We Warned Them! and I’m sure I’ll show more photos from the event in the next few weeks.

People gathered with torches,

While others watched.

The fire was white hot even once it started to die down.

I hope I’ve given you a few ideas to play with if you haven’t already found your wonderful pictures for this week’s challenge. I hope you had fun or will have fun with the theme.

Monochrome Madness: Nighttime

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  7. Great post Elke and thank you for being our host this week.

    I really like how you have shown us so many different ways to do night images. I especially love that the lane or street one, my absolute favourite.

    I did some research on how to write the theme, it seems it can be any way, but mostly the accepted way now, at least and the US is Nighttime, one word, though we often spell it with a hyphen, I mean who really nows.

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    1. Being a host was a pleasure – it also kind of puts some pressure on. I felt compelled to use exemplary shots rather than concentrating on one or two which I considered good. It’s something I learned from Cee who usually picked a variety of shots for her own challenges.
      Thanks for liking my Edinburgh shot.

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    1. I posted this answer to the wrong message. Every time I want to change it all my answers disappear. 🤔 So I am just changing it, not deleting it.

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  12. Firstly, welcome to the Monochrome Madness hosting team – great to have you on board 🙂 And secondly, thanks for setting such an interesting challenge. I haven’t done much with monochrome night shots previously but you make some interesting points about what works and have some great examples. My favourite is the street in Edinburgh – the cobbles work so well in that light.

    And here are my own efforts: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-seeing-the-night-in-black-and-white/

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    1. Thank you, Sarah. And thanks for your contribution – I’m not sure whether my comment registered, whether you have to approve it or whether it disappeared, cause just when I posted it my screen flickered. Almost went into night shut down 😉

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