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Black and White Photography I recently began using black and white photography, and I love it. However, I am in great need of some tips on how to determine how objects in color will look in black and white, on what looks best in black and white, and what looks terrible in black and white. Anything anyone can tell me, and tips at all, will be great, and I'm sure other "new" black and white film users would enjoy them too! Thank you! -Anni
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Jeff S. Kennedy |
Getting used to the way different colors translate to different tones in b&w is part of the skill or art of shooting b&w. Something you need to remember regarding this is that most b&w film is not as sensitive to red as it is to blue. IOW red objects will record as darker in b&w and blue will record as lighter. That's why skies tend to wash out with b&w film. That's also why safe lights in darkrooms are red in color. From here I could go into filters (ie. red filters to drastically darken skies etc) but I'll keep this brief. When I'm looking for b&w subjects I look for shapes, form, and textures. I also look for interesting tones. I generally try to avoid scenes that will record as all gray. I look for whites and especially blacks. I love images with rich blacks in them. But that's my style. To me photography as art is about showing something to someone in a way that they might not have seen it. That's what I love about b&w. It reduces a normal scene to form and texture. It strips away the facade of color and exposes things you wouldn't normally notice.
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