Black and White

One of my favorite types of photography is black and white, which has been around since the early days of photography. I feel that when you transform an image into black and white, it has the ability to give a photograph a timeless feel. I took a photography class last year while working towards my degree where one of our assignments was to take black and white photographs. I remember one of the main tips while we were working on the assignment was to make sure that each photograph we chose had some type of shadow, light, texture, movement, or pattern to it. I thought this was brilliant advice, because if the photograph doesn’t have some defining feature to it, it could end up looking a bit blander than it would in color. The main purpose of black and white photography, to me, is to give the viewer a feeling of nostalgia.

I have chosen to show these photographs (two of them were ones I used in that class), because I believe that each one has a certain something about it that makes it look so much better in black and white. Can you guess what that “something” is? Choose from the list (shadow, light, texture, movement, or pattern) and let me know what you think!