When it comes to timeless photography, nothing beats the art of black and white photography. It showcases outstanding composition, captures emotion, and highlights the drama in a scene. Are you often inspired by the monochrome works of iconic photographers? These black and white photography techniques will help you create impactful and emotive photos.
In his video above, Alex Kilbee of The Photographic Eye shares his tips and tricks for harnessing the power of black and white photography. Among the topics he covers include shooting exclusively in black and white, exposing, using RAW and exploring abstract imagery. Whether you’re new to this photography genre or a little further into it, these techniques should help you master the craft.
Of course, for further inspiration, he also showed some examples of excellent black and white photos, and why they work so well. In many of these snaps, the scenes simply look a lot more poignant in monochrome instead of color. In some cases, the mood and drama also become more prominent with the grain of film.
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Perhaps what I would add to this will be looked upon as ‘contraire’, but certainly not intended because I have enjoyed B&W since the days of cut-film and dark-room processing. Thank you for the video and hope you are kind enough to allow my comments to be included. I photograph digitally and in color. I use Photoshop’s adjustment layers & masking differently on multiple copies of the background layer in order to draw out the emphasis and effects from my mind’s eye what I want to see in B&W. It is a tedious process that I enjoy. What I capture… Read more »