Allison Goldman - Recipe Crit 1 B&W/Mystery

This was my Picture of the Week.  I used an Iphone 5 IOS 7.0.2.  I did not download any apps for this set.  The phone I use allows me to easily make photographs black and white, and there are a 3 different filters that are actually fairly decent.  This one is taken in "Noir" which creates high contrast black and white photographs.  

This is a photograph of a table that was so perfectly waxed and shined I could see my own reflection in it.  I took the picture at a slight angle to avoid getting my phone in the photograph.  Changing the photograph to black and white caused the photograph to look more like a sketch than a photograph.

The strategy used for this photograph was much more deliberate.  At home I have a glass sliding door for the bathroom shower.  I ran bathwater, which fogged up the glass, then stood inside and smudged the fogged glass a little bit before taking the photograph of my face behind the glass (you can kind of make out the hand print).  This one is also angled to avoid having the camera in the picture.  I then made the photograph black and white through a filter called "Mono."