Black and White

March 11, 2010

After reading (yet another) photography article I decided to practice what it talked about. This one was about black and white photography and things to look for and ways it can help your photography because it takes things like contrast and puts them on a different level. This reminded me of when I took my photography class in college. In that class it was generally the goal to have very little completely black areas and the same with white areas - what you were going for was every shade of grey you could in between. The lightest shade of grey you could get to before it was actually white and the same or the black (of course they generally look like black or white but generally shouldn't truly be so). Remembering that I thought I would practice some good old black and white photography and it's amazing how it does help one remember the basics and help practice skills by eliminating some of the distracting elements of color. I took a lot of pictures some that I really enjoyed but finally decided that I really like this one for it's texture and general greyness.