How to take good-looking black and white photosWe believe that black-and-white photography is a kind of photography with charm. A beautiful black-and-white photo is not just as simple as turning color into black-and-white. Black-and-white itself is an artistic form, and it has very specific rules. Today, we will tell you what you need to pay attention to when taking black-and-white photos.
1. Shadows
For a color photo, color is the most effective way to separate the subject from the background. At the same time, you can also use complementary colors and color jumps to guide the viewer to make the subject stand out.
However, in the face of black-and-white photography, each color has become a different degree of gray, and the effect of separating the subject from the background by using gray scale may not seem particularly obvious. In order to avoid this situation, how to make the most important part of the whole vision more important through the brightest and darkest parts of the photo.
For black-and-white photography, the simplest form is light. By quickly identifying the light in the picture, the shadow part and the strong contrast area can stand out in the picture, thus achieving the role of highlighting the subject.
2. Brevity
Black-and-white photography is originally a relatively simple form of photography, which removes colors from the picture and makes the picture simpler and clearer in this form. If you don't have the confidence to control complex pictures, you might as well try to make the whole picture more concise, and make the main body of the picture clear at a glance by simplifying photos and composition.
If you shoot indoors, it is relatively simple, but if you shoot outdoors, it will be more difficult, because some outdoor factors will interfere with our shooting environment and the simplicity of the picture. While looking for a suitable background, you can separate the shooting subject from the background by shallow depth of field to highlight the subject.
3. Texture and symmetry
Not everyone likes concise or blurred backgrounds, but we can make the overall composition look interesting through the background in the scene. There are many places where the background can be used, and texture and symmetry are one of the simplest ways.
4. Comparison
Black-and-white photography usually requires higher contrast than color photos. If you don't have an accurate value when adjusting the contrast, you can try to find the current picture contrast that suits you.
5. Emotions and expressions
A good-looking photo doesn't require good technology and perfection. A good photo must be about emotions. No matter how good the composition is, how good the light is, and how accurate the exposure is, it will become meaningless if the characters in the picture are godless.
The expression of the Model determines his own characteristics, as well as the success or failure of the photo. Before shooting, you should know about the Model, and decide the shooting style of the Model through understanding, because not all people are professional models, and perhaps the real expression is the most tempting thing.
The above is what you need to pay attention to in the black-and-white photo shooting introduced to you today. For beginners, these suggestions are quite helpful. Of course, among them, it is definitely indispensable to practice shooting a lot and learn experience in the process of shooting.
