Crushed by the Blackness - a photo on Flickriver

            what are Crushed Blacks?

The crushed black, or sometimes it’s called the clipped black, look is achieved by taking the shadow areas of your image and making them black.
Basically you’re ‘crushing’ multiple shades of dark grey into just pure black.

When you crush the blacks in a photo you’re removing detail from the image – the shadow detail. That means that technically you’re making the photo worse. So why do it?

When you crush the blacks, you increase the contrast in your image. And because your brain is designed to focus on high contrast areas (it’s an evolutionary thing to stop you getting attacked by dinosaurs or something).

Higher contrast images are easier to process – and so more appealing to our brains. 
Crushed blacks can remove clutter from a dark background, making the subject stand out more.

It can also make a photo more dramatic, because it recreates some of the properties of a single hard light source.

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Taken in: UK / England / Mid Devon District / Hemyock (show map)

Taken on: May 27, 2023

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-LX7, f/2.8, 1/160 sec, 4.7mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-LX7
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	4.7mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Unknown (-1)
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)
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