black and white photography

black and white photography has been around for many years and is still used a lot today. However most of the time these days image are manipulated into black and white where as in the older days you had no choice of shooting in black and white as this was the way the film was made. I feel black and white photography has a lot more emotion and feeling with in them and I really like the trying to creating meaning without using colour. This can be done by using tone and tonal range, texture, shape and form and filters such as red, green and yellow.

Bill Brandt was extremely well known for his use of composistion when it came to black and white photography and also the way he uses tonal ranges to make his images more emotive. I find his images do have a lot of feel to them and I really like his use of texture in some of his images. such as the one of the cobbled path his use of shadows and tonal ranges in this image are used really well as the bit with the most texture is lit up the most and the rest of it is almost just silhouettes. By using the composition he has this leads your eye up the image which I really like as you take it all in separate. In the second image he has used rule of thirds again by splitting the images  in to 3 horizontal levels like the the sky then the trees and then the ground. I really like the tonal ranges in this image as I really like the grey in the images I feel this makes the image speak lot of emotions without really using anything spectacular.

 Here I looked at changing images from colour to black and white by using framing and tonal ranges to create emotion within my images. I shot my images in raw as this would be a benefit when editing my images into black and white. I thought about composition a lot when taking my images as I wanted to recreate the style of Bill Brandt. I then went into to raw editing so I could start putting more feeling into my images I did this by looking at contrast and bringing out the shadows and reducing highlights within my images. I feel out of all my images my the ones of the square building as I really think the shadows work well and I really like the contrast in the sky.