Shooting in monochrome seems to be a lost art among photographers and photo editors. In my own opinion black and white (monochrome) photography has the possibility of making any photograph better. Most photographers shoot in colour and don’t normally expand their ‘horizons’ by shooting in monochrome. Taking monochrome photographs can stretch your creativity and allows you to see the photo from a different perspective than that of colour. Obviously not all photographs work in black and white, but when picking the correct photo to be converted into monochrome it can allow the photo to have much more meaning, or even tell a story.
I will be focusing this article on images that have the 6 main aspects of monochrome photography known as texture, tonality, composition, contrast, lines and form, hopefully to assist new photographer’s in future monochrome photography.
All photographs are mine and consist of mainly nature and landscape photographs, all taken or edited in black and white.
This photo was taken using the monochrome option on my camera, rather than post-editing a coloured photo. This particular photo has strong texture which allows the image to have depth and interest. The texture of this photograph has been formed by the contrast changes between trees. Continue reading “Black and White Photography; the Lost Art”