Fine Art Black And White Photography

Welcome to my page dedicated to black and white photography.

Fine art black and white photography.

Lightroom allows you to apply a selected preset or settings to a group. By the time photographers captured the first permanent color image in 1861 monochrome photos had been around for 35 years. The input from the artist is much more important than the photographed subject. Artists love using this sort of palette to add personality to their work.

Black and white images are very different from color photography. Athena carey is a multi award winning fine art travel photographer specializing in long exposure and black and white photography. Stage one is the initial selection and quick editing of the selected image in adobe photoshop or lightroom i usually work with large batches of images so this workflow works best for me. Black and white are two colors that complement each other on the spectrum.

Creating black and white photography is very different from creating color photography and one needs to be aware of the differences in order to be able to create good black and white photography especially black and white fine art photography where the input of the artist is much more important than the subject he is working with the reality he is capturing and by extension the image the. Fine art photography begins in your head not in the outside world. In that regard one of the ways to improve black and white fine art photography is to focus on an emotion or feeling. Black and white photography welcome to cole thompson photography.

My goal is to create black and white fine art photography which reflects my personal vision. As my good friend and fine art photographer kevin vandivier says where color photography is often used to accurately portray the subject black and white photography is often used to evoke a more emotional response to the subject. As you browse the site you ll see a wide range of subjects from portfolios such as the ghosts of auschwitz harbinger melting giants and easter island as well as many. Together with co author julia anna gospodarou we ve written a book on fine art photography black and white photography and architectural photography that s already considered by many to be one of the best books on black and white photography of the last decade s by many renowned photographers and educators.

This genre has a very long history as long as photography itself. How to edit black and white fine art photography. Black and white photography is the art of using different tones of gray ranging from white to dark to create compelling images. General editing techniques for black and white fine art photography.

By creating an impact through emotion in your photography then you are creating art. My typical black and white fine art editing consists of two stages.