Tagged blackandwhite

Jesse Struyvelt: Women Behind Emotions (NSFW)

Project and words by Jesse Struyvelt. Images used with permission.  Website Project page If you enjoy content like this, be sure to back our Kickstarter! For over two years I’ve been photographing women to capture real emotion. Trying to reflect my own emotions and feelings towards them. It was my first choice to work with women for the series because they tend to have a higher level of empathy.  During the project I’ve learned a lot about myself as a person, primarily being honest to myself about what I feel. It was necessary to take that step, to be able…

Zlatko Vickovic: Black and White

Website Flickr Be sure to support our Kickstarter Talk to us about how you got into photography.  To make a long story short: back in the days of analog photography I was a wedding photographer, and after a long break when I have built my career as traditional artist painter and graphic designer, once digital photography came to the scene, I felt in love with photography again. It came naturally. When I was youngster in school, and after that in wild teenage years, even if itwas someone else’s camera, it would always end up in my hands. I was always…

Daniel Zvereff: On Black and White Documentary Photography

All images by Daniel Zvereff. Used with permission. Website Instagram Be sure to support our Kickstarter! We’re in the middle and could really use more funding! If you like stories like this, you’ll be able to get all this and more with La Noir Image the magazine You’re a photographer that often shoots in color; and very vivid colors! So what creative choices typically make you shoot in black and white instead?   I’m not quite sure if there is a straightforward decision in my mind when working on a project that steers me towards color or black and white. I…

Editing a Black and White Photo in Adobe Lightroom

If you like content like this, please considering backing our Kickstarter. It’s as little as $10/year, but if you give a bit more you can get cool rewards and more. Back in the film days, fixing a photo usually was as simple as involving burning and dodging specific areas. For the most part, that’s still what many photographers do. But it can get more involved with digital photography. Converting an image to black and white brings it back to its simple nature and gives the photographer the ability to really fine tune an image to look just the way that…

(NSFW) Beauty in Simplicity: an Ode to Minimal Black and White Nudes

All images by Lachlan Walker. Used with permission. Also please remember to fund our Kickstarter. Instagram: @lachlanjames_ Website; lachlanwalkercreative.tumblr.com My name is Lachlan Walker, I’m a 23 year old photographer from Melbourne, Australia. Photography is omething relatively new for me.  Up until 2 and a half years ago I’d never touched a camera in my life. It was only when I met my girlfriend, who had always had a passion for photography, that I first picked up a camera. It was an old Nikon D3000, not much good on a technical level, but it was enough to spark my interest. A…