Black And White Photography

Black and white photography is just like a history lesson that brings you back to the very basics of the art of photography, when pictures were first taken without color information.

These pictures were taken with films which soon became a 'specialist' genre with the introduction of colour film and processing these black and white negatives became more and more costly and unprofitable for local businesses.

Black and white photography concentrates on the contrast that is in the picture which is thus the main focus of the picture in the absence on colours and focus on contrast and textures.

In monochrome photography, it does not mean the photo contains only black and white hues, but also the millions of shades of grey between solid pure black and pure white. As such the grey in the picture would present a totally different feel to the picture than in colour.