Figure 1 – White chairs. (c) DE Wolf 2016.

This morning I came across these white chairs displayed in a store window. White-on-white, tone-on-tone, is one of my favorite black and white subjects. There is a certain purity to the subject that creates a photograph out of shades of grey, and yet the shades of grey retain the sense of whiteness, which seems a paradox.

The image was taken with my IPhone, which did an excellent job of nailing, that is centering, the histogram. As I’ve said before, while this is the most immediate of cameras, it gives you the opportunity to carefully frame the image, as if you were using a big view camera. The only problem that I find is that it is always a bit tricky to get the shutter to trigger. I suppose that they are trying to compensate out random touches of the screen. But I always fear that the hard tapping is going to mess up the focus.