Monochrome Photography
Pin Mill boat Wrecks by Jane Wiltshire
“When you photography people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and White, you photograph their souls!”
Gloucester Prison Inmate By Pete Evans
Monochrome Photography utilises differing amounts of light instead of colours to capture images and uses tonal ranges of that colour. This tends to be black and which but also can be of other colours such a sepia.
Feeding the Chicks By David Wilkinson
Some of the most interesting Monochrome photographers are
Ansel Adams - Know for his unique monochrome nature compositions.
Henri Cartier-Bresson - A great street photographer know to capture the decisive moment.
Sally Mann - Best know for her Family series of images.
Robert Capa - Know for is documentary style photography of D-Day.
Dorothea Lange - Another documentary style photographer using portraits.
Sebastian Salgado - Brazilian Photojournalist.
Fan Ho - He has an incredible catalogue which helped transform the world of photography.
Don McCullin is a Uk Photojournalist who focuses on brutal realism often in conflict zones in the Uk and further afield.
Martine Franck - Who within her documentary style focused on key cultural subjects.
Josef Koudelka - Initially captures the invasion of Prague in 1968 he continue to shoot in monochrome today.
Matt Black - He tends to concentrate on Environment, polity and migration in journalistic style.
Damon Baker - His focus is portraits and fashion photography using light to garner raw emotion.
Elliiot Erwitt - He likes the combination of animals and people within his street photography and has a Centenary medal from the RPS..
In Focus
Here Alan Schiller talks us about using light and what to look for.
Youtube episodes that you can go to for more information to help you become a better Monochrome Photographer
Gary McIntyre - Shooting in Monochrome interesting video on what to look at when shooting Monochrome images.
Sean Tucker - This is for portrait photographers doing conversions from colour into black and white but can be used for any form of photography. He shows what to do in a step by step guide which can be easily followed in photoshop but could also be used which brushes and radial filters in lightroom. Of particular note is how he uses the colour sliders for lightening and darkening the image. A great video that you can lean a lot from and recommended watching.
Welcome Beach By Robert Harvey
“Removing colour from the world makes us see deeper into the essence of things”
— Rob Sheppard