The final #FishNoir image from this #Photography shoot. A lot of bricks amongst the rocks, which make up the rubble seabed at the base of the seawall. The #BlackAndWhite version has that same shallow depth of field effect that seems to be an artefact of the filtering process to map to monochrome.

Fortunate #FishNoir placement here, with one fish per shadowed void. Interesting contrast here with the #BlackAndWhite #Photography version inverting the foreground / background light / dark balance.

The lack of external references gives these #FishNoir #Photography images an ambiguous orientation. They could almost be the vertically-stacked diorama backdrops of “city harbour exhibit" aquariums. The #BlackAndWhite one has a real antique feel to me, I think because there's a haloing sediment haze around the central sharp focus boulders. It reminds me a bit of a daguerreotype or glass-plate.

What’s interesting about this #FishNoir #Photography, is the way the #BlackAndWhite versions show how important the contrasting bands are on the Toadfish to making them stand out. It's a camouflage that's very effective against sand, with the patterns of light caused by surface refraction, but against the darker mid-tones, especially in the monochrome image, it really pops. Given how poisonous they are, I guess that's a good thing for them?

Eventually the creek at Mosman Bay was filled in, the watercourse cemented as an open drain, and a long, narrow park created filling the valley. We’d sometimes climb down into the drain, deeper than we were tall, to race leaves in the flow of water. That's how I ended up with my feet slipping out from under me, and smashing my forehead on the ground, opening my eyebrow and leaving me with a scar I still have. There is a lot of blood in a child's forehead. #FishNoir #Photography #BlackAndWhite

A lot of the industrial stone rubble in these #FishNoir #Photography examples is probably over a century old. This bay was formerly a mangrove creek, that hosted a whaling station, where countless marine giants were flensed. In the 1980s, First Mosman Scouts had the giant jawbones of a whale framing the doors of their old sandstone building across the road from where I was shooting these pictures. If I remember rightly, the building was the actual whaling station.

The toadfish give off vibes of just hanging in space like zeppelins, or barrage balloons in this colour, & #BlackAndWhite #FishNoir #Photography. I like the way the spectrum of the colour image moves from yellowish in the bottom left, through a band of greenish running from the top left to bottom right corners, and then the top right corner is predominantly light blue. These are all the actual colours, just tweaked with vividness, and dehazing - it's like using a polarising filter.

And with the intro images out of the way, the real meat of the #FishNoir #Photography series. These images really lean in to an emphasis of vividness to bring out the yellow / green / blue tones of the colour images, while the #BlackAndWhite versions, with high key shadow and all the lit debris on the surface feel (to me at least) like shots from an early silent movie.

The fifth #FishNoir image, in colour & #BlackAndWhite #Photography. It was a fun composition, getting the fish’s cast shadow onto the sand flat, with a “find the fish” offset. Again, pushing the contrast to get overlapping patterns of light & dark of the sand texture, and refracted light from the surface.