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 Sisterlisa B 
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BW Photos, what's the difference What, in your opinion, makes some BW photos better than others?
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Craig m. Zacarelli
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sharpness, contrast, composition, subject... pretty much the same as a color photo.. but in B&W!
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John P. Sandstedt Contact John John's Gallery |
Type of film, if the picture was taken traditionally. So many different kinds of film and differences in results - little grain, lots of grain, tendencies toward higher contrast and deeper blacks. Expertise of the printer in the wet darkroom. Use of purposeful burning and dodging. Creative adjustment of exposure [in-camera] and use of different stregths of chemical baths or developing time. Historically, a wide array of papers that is slowly disappearing. In digital - whether the camera was set to monochrome in-camera or whether the B&W effect was achieved using Desaturation or Channel Mixer [Photoshop.] Proper use of Shadows/ Highlights, Brightnes/Contrast, the Unsharp Mask. In either film or digital, a decent subject, proper lighting, effective composition, proper exposure achieved - possibly through bracketting. The photographer's ability to visualize how a color "scene" will appear in monochrome. [Note, one can be very pleasnatly surprised when s/he decolorizes a color image - sometimes it can blow one's mind.]
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