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Black And White Photography Tips - Four Tips For How To Take Good Pictures
These tips will help you be able to recognize good black and white photo opportunities and to be able to photograph and edit them for the best results.
Black and white photography is an excellent way to train the eye to recognize remarkable photo composition which is why so many photography courses and schools teach black and white early on.
As vibrant and colorful as a sky at sunset may be, it is often the lines, shapes and curves that move the eye through the picture. So while the colors can be quite beautiful, black and white makes the photo more dynamic.
In spite of its attributes, after the media went full color in the 70's and 80's black and white photography faded. It soon became difficult to find places to process black and white film, and stores didn't always carry it. Now thanks to digital cameras and photo editing software, black and white photography is back!
How to Recognize Stunning Black and White Photographs
Although choosing the best subjects for black and white is very subjective, many professional photographers will agree that the following types of compositions beg for black and white:
- Photos that convey strong emotion. Often times, color can be a distraction whereas black and white makes the emotion or feeling seem more strong.
- Images that don't have a full spectrum of colors like Ansel Adam's Yosemite "Moon and Half Dome."
- Low contrast images such as photographs shot on dark overcast days.
- Any subject with the lines, contours, shadows and curves that you just know will look great in black and white. How do you know? By getting familiar with a variety of black and white images! Search online for Ansel Adams work. Or you can just search for "famous black and white photos."
- Look at B&W photography books at the library. There are many places to appreciate and learn this artful form of photography!
Create Black & White Photography with a Photo Editor
If upon seeing a subject, you know it's got to be a black and white photo, then you could set your camera to B&W and take the picture. But once you get experience with using your photo editing software, you'll find that you can create even better black and white images by shooting in color first and then desaturating it in the editor. Another benefit to this method is that you'll never end up with a day's worth of pictures all in black and white because you forgot to reset the camera!
Check Your Camera's White Balance
While the easiest way to change a color to black and white is to desaturate it with your photo editor, this technique doesn't let you control how the primary colors work together to produce a grayscale brightness. If you create a good white balance when taking the picture, then the simple desaturation method may be all you need do in the photo editor.
Make Sure to Use Your Photo Editing Software's Color Swatches
One of the many methods for creating black and white images in a photo editor allows you to apply color swatches for your tones. Even though we don't see the colors in black and white, there are tones, and these are created by colors. Color swatches work a lot like the way color lenses work on a SLR camera. For instance, camera filters in the yellow to orange range look great with skin tones while green adds wonderful natural tones to outdoors pictures.
And last but not least, don't forget to share your favorite black and white photographs. Black and white photos look great framed and deserve to be on the wall for all to see. Choose frames that showcase rather than distract from your black and whites with simple clean lines. Black and white pictures look especially good framed in silver picture frames, gold picture frames and even black picture frames depending upon the style of the image. Hope you enjoyed these four black and white photography tips and have fun taking your next black and white photo!
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