Black and White...different kinds!

Some folks in the photo industry are saying that black and white images have been making a comeback over the last few years.  I've contended that they have never left in the first place!   But there is different degrees of black and white...lets show you!

This image of Lexy was shot in color and converted to regular black and white..just taking the entire color palette and turning it black and white. 

This is quite typical of a sharp focused b&w image, but there are many things you can do with a simple black and white image that give it a different feel.  The idea is to give that image a different look that still is a black and white, but with marked differences that give it a little punch (or less, as you'll see in examples below!

This image of Haley was "grained out" a bit to give it a rougher look to it...a great b&w, but punched for a little bit of a different look!

This image with Katie was changed with a "high key" application, that literally has the white in the image pumped to the point that it is the dominant part of the images.  Lots of older photogs used this trick to really make a normal B&W very different, but classy.  It is a look I really like, done in the right image of course!!!

More on Black and White in a future post!!!