Black And White Photography And The Mystery Of Detail

Black and white photography is a skill you can acquire over a period of time. You need to work harder when creating a black and white image, as a lot of the details you see in a colour image, are all missing in a black and white image.

For example, if you are taking images of a beautiful 1950’s car, you can take black and white images and concentrate on the variations of the shiny metal and glass. When you take colour images, the detail is all there.

You can see the colour of the car, the colour of the tyres, the colour of the seats. In a black and white image, you do not know these details, it is all a mystery. With the image in colour, you see it all, the naked truth.

When images are taken in colour, all the details are there, the only variations are the hues and changes in light. For example when taking a colour portrait, you can see she has green eyes, blond hair and wearing a blue dress.

This is the kind of detail missing in the clues of a photograph, when creating a black and white image. But the missing detail, may keep you looking at the image a little longer. The variation of different shades of grey, the contrast of light and dark areas of the image.

This is the reason I like to take colour and black and white images of the same event. I like to show the viewer of the image, the naked details of color and the mystery of black and white photography.

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