A portrait photographer who shoots black and white photos understands the powerful emotion and mood a monochrome image can portray. Although the setup and environment may be similar, the techniques to create a powerful black and white portrait may be different for each photographer.
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant
Here are a few links to resources that will help improve your black and white portraits.
Tim Kelly – Portrait Mastery in Black & White
Tim presents 60 of his most impressive and diverse black and white portrait images and discusses the creative concept behind each one including gear, lighting, exposure, and posing strategies.
Fstoppers – A Guide To Black and White Portraits
Fashion photographer John Schell discusses techniques and tips he uses for capturing great black and white photos of his clients.
Tuts+ – Amazing Examples of Black & White Portraiture
In this blog post you’ll find a gallery of wonderful B&W photos as well as practical tips and techniques.
Black and White Portraits
Here is a collection of beautiful B&W pictures selected from our Flickr group.
Amine Fassi – Milla
Wild Priest – Stranger
Shirren Lim
Thomas Lieser – I never found the philosopher's stone
Handy Andy Pandy – Black and White
Anh Tu Nguyen – Roland
Mahesh Balasubramanian – !!!
Ben Roffelsen – Sarko
Amine Fassi – Freddy…
Mahesh Balasubramanian – Deep Look !!!
Wild Priest – Stranger
Nimit Nigam – Eye to Eye…
Christopher – Portrait
Favian A. Roldan – kimberly
Arron Haggart – movie night
Wild Priest – Kid
Nimit Nigam – :O
Franck-Emanuel GOGUER – Justine's square portrait
Sylvie Van nerum – moi n/b
cortoboy – cut
Amine Fassi – Black Time
Children of the Mist – Emotions (the Vatican´s Romas II)
Shirren Lim – .dog day afternoon.
Shirren Lim – .tibetan/.
Melinda Szente – When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Franck-Emanuel GOGUER – Kevin – La Défense
Mahesh Balasubramanian – Peek-a-boo !!!
Jaime Nicolau – Autorretrato en 18mm
Ruth Moucharafieh – Young at heart!
Thomas Lieser – the mask of madness (self contained portrait)
julian oh – For those who tell the truth shall die
samiKoo – Looking Confused
Claus Jørstad – Old sailor
Berit Alits – Mya
jean76_58 – L…
Justin Piercy – Lionel salutes you
Marco Bergner – Grandfather
Berit Alias – Mia
Loïc Romer – Portrait
Greig Reid – Daughter Oct 12 faded black & white portrait
Greig Reid – Son November 12
Amlan Sanyal
Yane Naumoski – Captured Attention
Greig Reid – Son at Loch Oich, Invergarry, Scotland.
Runar Eilertsen – Anette B&W
Julian Bueckert – Nolan
Franck-Emanuel GOGUER – Justine
