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Black And White Color photography

Color photography may be more desirable in some respects for sporting events and for landscape photography, though works of black and white photography by such renowned photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Watson are matchless works of art. People photography is another sphere where it reigns supreme and can be particularly appreciated in the old glamour photographs of the late ‘30s and ‘40s. The longevity of black and white photographs is seen in these old and lasting prints that age has not been able to damage. Good photography should have two features –beauty and ability to stop time – both of which are abundantly present in black and white photography.

Black and White Photography Epitomizes Sophistication Again

These days, black and white photography has become increasingly alluring for both print media and television advertising because consumers desire the quality of timelessness that black and white photographs evoke. Upscale weddings demand that their wedding photographs be made in black and white as well as color, as do the studios which are constantly inundated with customers demanding black and white portrait shots.

Black and White Photography Epitomizes Sophistication

Color photography in the hands of a novice clicking away at the ubiquitous sunset may pass for some form of art, but it pales in comparison with the simplicity and sophistication of black and white photography. It is of course where a beginner learns the basics of photography and once mastered, provides the ideal springboard for more adventurous and exotic forms of photography. It is a step-by-step process where techniques like backlit scenes, overexposure, and learning the correct use of filters sets the prospective photographer on the road to experiencing success in the field of photography.

Modern Photography vs. Black and White Photography

In this modern age of printers and pixels where color is the norm you may be wondering why people choose black and white photography, especially when few current photographers who love the acetic acid soap bath and the smell of fixer. Colors give off exuberance and have a seductiveness not associated with grayscale images, but still photographers are churning out black and white images. Why?

Black and white photography was how it all began and thus still holds its own among modern photographers, thanks to the ease with which it can be learned, although it takes many a year to master. But even beginners can expose, develop and print their own images and draw pleasure in watching images slowly materialize from the below the red and amber safelight. There is also the fact that black and white photographs last longer than colored ones.

The Beginning of Pictorialism and Other Forms of Art Photography

The modern term for this kind of art photography is pictorialism, which refers to the method of construction of a picture from the point of view of shooting with a camera and then developing it with art in mind. Pictorialism came to an early end because photographers began to feel that it was too restrictive by nature and unsuited to the avant-garde leaning new generation of photographers such as Malcolm Arbuthnot, who thought that in pictorialism it was form over subject and more emphasis was being placed on design rather than on the picture.

With digital work, art photography is becoming more prevalent nowadays and, with the help of a computer, certain effects can be deliberately achieved so photographs can be made to look like an oil painting or as pastel, but this is governed mainly by the expertise of the photographer’s own abilities.

Buying art photography at a gallery is relatively a simple task and with the advent of online art photography galleries, buyers can locate photographs that best suit their individual desires and tastes without the need of commuting or attending art exhibitions. Art photography is basically art that is creative, more so when it is visually aesthetic and is mostly appreciated for a having lots of imaginative and intellectual content.

The type of camera that is used is that which the photographer is most comfortable with and it may be either manual or automatic. Processing the film may be done by hand and then contact printed for it all depends on the expertise and desire of the photographer and the amount of art that he wishes the photograph to have.

The choice of whether to use black and white photographs or to have colored photos is also dependent on the subject and the way the photographer wishes to present the subject. Art photography is a constantly changing environment with so much scope for improvement, experimentation and advance that the photographer may spend years and years in this sphere and still constantly evolve as a photographer without ever stagnating in any way.

Changes in Photographic Methods: Art Photography

The advent of art photography began with such well-known figures as Phillip Henry Emerson, and came about through changes in technology that have revolutionized the tenets of photography in terms of lenses as well as newer and more modern cameras. Art photography has delved deep into the realm of painting and sought to incorporate those principles into the realm of photography -- this has meant not only arranging the picture, but also trying to construct the scene with the help of new development processes that include the use of calotype negatives