Recent Black and White Photography
As summer turns into fall, color will be king and I still try to focus a bit on what is compelling beyond that.
As summer turns into fall, color will be king and I still try to focus a bit on what is compelling beyond that.
I love studying the play of light with dark, shadow and highlight, and the emphasis of texture when color is removed.
Here are the black and white photos I’ve taken recently, focusing on shapes, textures, and composition.
Here are some of the other things we saw, where color was not the feature.
These photos have been collected since the beginning of January. I hope you enjoy their value contrasts, composition, light, shadows, shapes, and mood.
These black and white photos highlight light, refraction, shadow, texture, and composition.
Questions about my travel sketchbooks, my black and white photography, and our recent travel bonanza.
Taking photos in black and white helps me focus on composition, texture, light and shadow.
For a country featuring turquoise water, taking colorless photos was interesting!
The colors of this country were so fabulous, that these photos highlight some of the other contrasts that were so engaging.
Try starting a discipline of taking things in black and white, for you will really start to see values everywhere and what a difference they make.
This is why I have a practice of taking photographs in black and white.
In these rather stark, but carefully composed images, you can get a whole feel for the seventeen day trip in one stripped down post.
Here is what winter has looked like around here for the last two months.
Our recent trip to Morocco was a feast of opportunities to take black and white photographs.
Here are black and white photographs from Maine and Texas, airplanes, airports, church and home.