Laughter and happiness take many forms. It causes so many different feelings of euphoria. The ones we're most familiar with are that of humans and animals. With animals, I think dogs show the most affection and gratification for when you greet them. They instantly return the favour and greet you back +500%.
I am trying my hand at black and white photography and moving my safe zone of landscapes and moving forward to animals. People would be my last challenge.
There is something particular you must take into consideration when applying black and white to a photograph. Not all pictures can hold the essence that you would like with a black and white setting.
A tip most photographers said was to have a lot of contrast in your picture so that the image that you want to pop out will stand out. Natural lighting can help but sometimes you can use your flash to add to the feeling you want to set. If you are without equipment, a simple umbrella would do to block out the sunlight. The less light, the softer the image, the brighter the image, the more sharp and rough and alert the picture will adapt to.
Another tip was to not put your digital camera on B+W mode, which some cameras have, because it might take away some of the "colour" to the image. It is advised to take the picture as usual, then to download it into Photoshop and edit it in black and white from there.
It is also advised not to interfere with the image too much as it would take away from the original effect of the picture.
"Black and white portraits are supposed to be simple, and in their truest form only adaptations of light, contrast, perspective and texture."
Take a look at this website that gives so much more information and tips than I could ever reiterate.
http://www.howitookit.com/?p=1797
This photo here on this post, is my experiment with an animal but in B+W photography, with the aid of these websites and the use of Youtube as channel of social media.
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Without social media, it would be very difficult or almost near to impossible to gather all this valuable, important information readily at hand nor will I be able to share my work and trials and errors with the community at large, my friends, family or persons on social media sites such as facebook. This gives me opportunities that persons 20 years ago could have never even dreamt of!
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