High Key Black And White Photography

Sometimes a pop of colour really brings your photographs to life.

High key black and white photography. The whites meanwhile become whiter. Although low and high key photography is covered within the iphotographycourse in module 9 black and white don t feel that this technique is restricted to only black and white photography. Whether the black and white photos focuses on the surviving flowers or the desolation depends on whether the picture is high or low key. High key is an excellent choice for both color and black and white photos.

If you want to know more about high key photography there is more info here. Contrast play a very important role in black and white photography and a high contrast will can make the few remaining flowers stand out while a low contrast can make then merge into scene. Even though your camera records a reduced tone range compared to what you see it s still recording more than you want for a low key photo. High key photography is not devoid of blacks it just has very minimal amounts of the said tone.

As a result low key images often have a rather dark dramatic. This genre has a very long history as long as photography itself. Certainly more than photographing with black and white film. To edit the image we provided of the couple or similarly lit images we suggest selecting the glam bw preset with blooming highlights to boost the highlights where skin tones usually reside.

For example if you re shooting a portrait of a child your subject s eyes will still have black pupils not white. The importance of post processing for low key digital photography. I ve written posts about low key nature photography before. With low key photography lighting is reduced in order to produce images characterized by striking contrasts dark tones and shadows.

Usually a single source of lighting is used to achieve this composition. I enjoy producing high key wildlife portraits including portraits on white it s been a style i ve been working on since 2011 and is the sister project to my on black series. If you use high key lighting in your photos the mid tones or mid range tones become white. Properly adjusting exposure and contrast is crucial when post processing a black and white high key image.

Black and white photography is the art of using different tones of gray ranging from white to dark to create compelling images.