Last week’s challenge was also black and white and in keeping with the them, earlier today I shared a set of black and white portraits. Your challenge this week, if you choose to accept it, is do photograph a real person and do a portrait in black and white.
By Sean Molin
There are lots of articles here on dPS to help you with that and get some inspiration including:
- Create Better Black and White Photos Using Local Adjustments in Lightroom 5
- How to Convert Photos to Black and White in Lightroom
- How to See in Black and White
- DISCUSS: When you Photograph People in Black and White, you Photograph their Souls
Here are a few more example black and white portraits:
By Sean McGrath
By Ben Raynal
By Neil Moralee
By stephane
By Ronn aka “Blue” Aldaman
By Dietmar Temps
By Nicolas Alejandro
By Gustave Deghilage
By Dietmar Temps
By i k o
By Fadzly Mubin
If you want to learn more about black and white grab a copy of the newest dPS ebook The Essential Guide to Black and White Photography at early bird pricing only until September 13th.
Share your black and white portrait images
Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your leading lines using pathways and roads in this week’s challenge.
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