Black and White Photo Editing

in #streetphotography7 years ago (edited)

Creating black and white photos can sometimes be challenging. If you combine that with street photography you need to be really creative to add a depth to photos you have taken. In times of analogue cameras it was even harder. Nowdays we have digital equipment, tones of editing softwares but still it doesn’t makes it easier.

I really love black and white photos, monochrome capture change overall mood of a photo because it removes distractions which are sometimes caused by colors. The only thing that you pay attention to is your subject and story behind it.

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Contrasty black and white usually causes stronger emotional reaction. Noir (black/dark) usually represents cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity. Even if original photo does not have that mood after you give it that noir touch it will look mysterious and shady. If you combine it with pinhole effect you will get really dramatic photo.

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Low contrast, faded look usually cause nostalgic feelings or compassion. Faded look is Instagram trend simply because of those emotional reactions.

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High key black and white photos are as dramatic as noir/ low key. You need to overexpose large part of the photo to accentuate your subject but an emotional reaction to high key photos is usually opposite to that of noir. Photographers are using high key editing for the female or child subjects because it gives them genle, calm, almost dreamy look.

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So as you can see editing black and white photos is not an as easy task as it seems. To illustrate the change of mood of a photo I posted couple different edits of few photos. Hope you will like them.

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All photos are taken and edited by me.

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Beautiful, emotional shots and a very accurate explanation of the different styles of black and white photography. I prefer black and white photography mainly because of the lack of distractions and the focusing on the emotional side of the picture.
Now I can clearly understand why I have this obsession with faded images. :)

Thank you for the kind words dear! I love every single bw style, they speak volumes about subject but also about photographer.

Beautiful, edits. Great work. I like the most these two:

-dynamic, dramatic, perfect framing, good choice of depth... great one


-again very dynamic -it almost speak and I really like drama in this photo

Excellent, keep a good work!

Hvala puno Dejane!!!

Thanks for the lesson @dijana969. I liked how you showed two styles with most of the photos and explained the purpose of each. I didn't know this. I just take photos but don't have technical background in any of the skills.

You are welcome dear! You don’t need any technical skills, editing comes naturally, you simply pick what you like, if you like it other people will like it too...I explained styles because thats what I was wondering about in the beginning .

Thank you, I've learned a good bit from this post (:

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