The night scenes were something I had been developing for a while and eventually came together late one night in Waterford. Using high iso to add grain and noise in camera and then over processing in Photoshop I achieved a style inspired by the Pictorialism movement of the 1860s.
You just have to be ok with capturing it in a way that's outside photographic norms which means accepting all the noise digital cameras bring to low light photography, something photographers are told never to do.
The equivalent in sound would be distortion, which is technically wrong, but the imperfection of the sound produces something interesting and unforeseen which then becomes a creative tool.
Part of this series was selected for publication in the Salon piece in Black+White Magazine issue 268.
The idea of these night shots is to experiment and push the camera and processing as far as it can go making a feature of the imperfections and limitations.
Black+White Photography Magazine
In our search for some of the best work by Black+White aficionados, we discovered Diarmuid Doran's images.
His most resonant series is one that steps outside of photographic norms and embraces the distortion of extreme ISOs and low light.
