Would you consider this a high contrast image?

[JustJazzie]

I am working on an assignment on contrast, and was trying to figure out what to do with all my gear in storage. this was the best i came up with. If I make it b&w then It seems more contrast-y, but I like it color. Would you consider it high contrast?

 

[Mully]

High ...No ....;.Mild contrast yes

 

[amolitor]

High Contrast usually means, in reality, "minimal midtones". People commonly want to see a full range of tones in a photograph as a sort of basic ante (I think this is flawed, but that's quite a different discussion) but anyways this means that "most" "correct" images have white whites and black blacks already, which is what one might naively thing "high contrast" means.

So, High Contrast means that most of the image is either very light or very dark, and that fits with our visual notion of high contrast, as well. The grains of white rice, above, display a pretty rich palette of middle tones. Not as much as there could be, but rich enough.

 

[JustJazzie]

Thanks for the feedback!