From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition

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Why black and white?

Why black and white?

From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition

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Why black and white?

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As I mentioned earlier, for most of the exercises in this course I want you to be shooting in black and white. Now if you've never worked in black and white before, that may sound like a rather odd choice. But when you're shooting black and white, you reduce the world to tone and line and form, and that can make composition much easier. To be honest, color can be hard, as it adds an entire extra layer of information to your image, both in terms of composition and overall feel. By removing color from the equation, we strip composition down to its most fundamental, most essential components. You can learn everything you need to know about shooting and processing black and white images in my course Foundations of Photography: Black & White. Whether you have seen that course or not, let me reiterate a couple of essential black-and-white concepts. First, there is no objective relationship between any particular color and any particular shade of gray. In other words, a blue sky can be…

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