“The Shades of Gray”. Review on Black and White Photography

.: “A Photograph speaks a thousand words” :.

Sometimes when you remove or take away something, you in-turn add much more, and this is completely true when it comes to “Black and White photography”.

Let me try and explain this: A Color photograph can distract us from so many small details, and one just overlooks them. On the other hand a black and white picture can add depth, intensity, passion, mystery, my list could just go on and on. I guess from this you can make out that I am a die hard fan of B&W photography.

I was never into black and white; I was actually introduced to this art by accident. And this I would like to share. Like any other novice I also believed that black and white was boring, so never even dared to go near it. Once I had to scan a few snaps, as I had to send them across via email to a friend, was editing it in Photoshop, when, I accidentally changed it to gray scale, one of the options in the software, and trust me the image just changed completely, by taking away the hue, in turn added so much to that snap. And that’s when I realized what I have been missing on.

Let me add a few tips for B&W compositions.

The first question would be:

What will look good on a gray scale?

The answer is everything. Anything that you click, a mysterious beauty would be added.

However you might want to pick compositions with high contrast between black and white. Here you might want to look for either gentle gradient from a lighter to a darker shade, or sharp edges.

Also one could play with shadow created by object.

If you can use this art creatively, you can reach places.

I am working on a website where I plan to have a featured section to show the impact a B&W photograph can have. Hoping to complete it soon, (fingers crossed).

Cheers and Thanks for reading ; )