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How Do Leading Lines Work in Black and White Photography? (Premium)

Leading lines: they’re one of the first things that every photographer learns about when it comes to shooting images in school. If you learned online and without format training, then you probably studied the rule of thirds first. But when you’re looking at a photo, one of the best ways ro artfully create an image that photographers have traditionally been taught is by using leading lines. Call it a rule that needs to be broken, it’s still a very effective one that when done correctly, can trump pretty much any other rule out there with the exception of using text in an image. For many years, black and white photography was the way to go. But when color came around, things changed quite a bit.So let’s explore leading lines and black and white photography.

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My Three Lenses

Editorial by Josh S. Rose. Be sure to also check him out on Instagram. Images and text used with permission Out of habit (and lust), I read a lot of online reviews of photography equipment. Truth is, I’ve spent too many hours delving into the craftsmanship part of the medium. But it’s a side note to my greater passion, which is shooting. This is why I’m sharing the contents of my camera kit — because in my journeys, I’ve found most reviews of equipment to be written from an expert’s point of view but it’s harder to find a cohesive opinion about…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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(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…

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Review: MacPhun Tonality

Nik Software is now free, but there are lots of other options that can help you create better black and white images for a little bit of money. Take MacPhun’s Tonality for example: consider it the closest thing to blending Adobe Lightroom, RNI Films, and Instagram. Designed for mostly enthusiasts, Tonality had some of the same people working on it that used to produce Nik Software’s products. However, it also slates itself in a spot where it makes sense for the serious photographer since it can also function as a plugin for Lightroom and Photoshop. If you’re using Adobe Lightroom,…

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Love: Exploring A Relationship in Monochrome

All images by Nathan Hostetter. Used with permission. “I wanted to show the relationship dynamic of a blue collar man and his white collar girl.” says photographer Nathan Hostetter when he emailed La Noir Image to showcase his project. This relationship isn’t a typical one though.   "The male subject comes from the working class and is adjusting to his new upscale life, and the woman is used to getting her way. The series reflects on the man alone, and the thoughts and emotions of two people that love each other, even if they don’t always understand one another.“  Don’t forget…

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10 Black and White Instagram Photographers Under 10K Followers You Should Check Out Now

Those of us who embrace the purist mentality that monochromatic images lend themselves to often end up applying it to all of our work. Indeed, black and white simplifies a scene and makes the human mind pay attention to nothing else but the shapes in a scene. Sometimes it’s tough to embrace; but with a little bit of inspiration, you’ll want to get out there and document the world in nothing else but black, white and all the shades in between.  To get you inspired, here are 10 photographers mostly shooting black and white with followings of under 10k to…

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Walter Rothwell

Website Street photography International What makes black and white photography so important to you? It’s how I see, I react to light, shape and tone more than colour and have always found this exciting, it allows us, as photographers, to interpret our environment in a way that only we are seeing. Secondly, I’m a film photographer and darkroom printer, the two halves become one creative process and the satisfaction of looking at a carefully crafted silver print is still special. Black and white photography requires thought, consideration and work, the negative is the foundation but must be built upon. The…

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Ian Pettigrew

Website What makes black and white photography so important to you? It’s the truth. Simple as that. What inspires you to create photographs? An undeniable urge to make art. Its uncompromising, and unrelenting. Its horrible sometimes.Its consuming. Why is black and white photography so important to our future in the artworld? BECAUSE BW is uncompromising. Its the truth, its life stripped away. Its the bare essentials.

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Jorge Miño aka Raskolnikov

Website Flickr What makes black and white photography so important to you? It is difficult to explain but more than probably the fact that most of the photographs that have really impacted me from the masters are in B&W. I read from one of them that when you photograph someone in color you get his/her dress but when doing in B&W you get his/her soul. When I first saw one of my all-time favorite photo: Sally Man – Candy cigarette (http://theredlist.com/wiki-2-16-601-799-view-existentialism-profile-mann-sally.html) I was completely mesmerize by the expressiveness and all the story behind her eyes and behind the whole image.…

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Milo Hess

Instagram FolioHD Facebook What makes black and white photography so important to you? BW photography because it strips away all the unnecessary layers of distraction allowing the viewer to really look at what is going on. Not in a cursory nice color…what App did you use? kind of way but texture, light, shadow and most of all content and expression.  In a meat and potatoes…. less is more kind of way. Thinking about it I was brought up in a traditional bw darkroom and that’s a hard habit to break. What inspires you to create photographs? Inspiration for me is…

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