“When you take normal photo, you take the color, but in black and white, you take soul of photo“. That is the phrase that I remember from my friend who are really passionate about black and white photography. At first, I don’t really understand about black and white photography as for me, since the modern camera able to capture colors that quite accurate from what you see through eye, and black and white photography is for old days where the old camera still have not able to project color.

For my personal view, I always turn normal photo into black and white when the exposure and white balance is accurate as it will cover my lack of capabilities to adjust correct setting for exposure, but it prove I am wrong, totally wrong in this area. When I convert into black and white and the final product is really horrible, even more horrible then my under exposure photo.

In black and white photo, the range of color is very limited, either black, white, and range of different gray color. To make each of color appeal and even distinguish between shadowed area is really required skills and high sense of color range to produce good black and white photo. The most common mistake is to produce flat light in black and white, since it could not be differentiate with color but only with different grey range. Good black and white picture really bring out soul of picture.

One thing that I know is never to put black and white for food photo, as it looks really horrible to see food in black and white.