Transition to Black & White (part 1)
The coining of the word "photography" is attributed to Sir John Herschel in 1839. It is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), (genitive: phōtós) meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".
Eric Kim said color blinds the eye. If a scene is not very colourful, or doesn’t have interesting colours, it is difficult to make a good photograph. However with black and white there’s less discrimination. No picture is better than the significant other. You spend less time being clever with colour and more time trying to portray a raw emotion.
"It's up to you what you do with contrasts, light, shapes and lines to emphasize the essence, or what you see as the essence - no colors that will seduce the eye, only emotion that will capture the heart."
~Joel Tjintjelaar.
For someone like me black & white photography used to be just another easy way for me to process my pictures. Less stress with colour cause there’s no colour. But then as i continued i found that i liked it not because it made work easier but because of the effect it sends out. If you look at any portrait black and white photo, the expressions are very.......what’s the word...... raw. The pictures come out more dramatic because of the feeling a black and white photo can give you. Everything is raw.