Friday 6 February 2009

Why take Black and White images?

Its easy to take colour pictures but black and white images are still very popular. They are often seen as more 'arty' than colour ones. The Magnum in Motion images are often in black and white. Photographer Harold Davis explains here why there is a case for still using black and white in the digital age. See his Flickr monochrome set here.

Here are a couple of ways of doing this in Photoshop. Importantly they allow you to manipulate the tonal values rather than just removing the colour uniformly from the image.

Posting 1 and some more techniques posting 2.

I have a further technique that has worked well for me but I might experiment with some of those too.

enjoy, Mike J

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