How to take black and white photos with SLR?

Many novice photographers are not used to shooting RAW files. Although the volume of the RAW file is relatively large, it can be fine-tuned to a greater extent later (such as adjusting exposure, contrast, saturation, etc.). ), especially useful for taking digital black and white photos. Therefore, it is recommended to choose RAW or RAW+JPG format for storage when shooting.

Second, use low ISO.

The noise of digital photos is different from that of film. To take beautiful digital black-and-white photos, the lower the ISO, the better, so that the quality and black-and-white outline of the photos will be more prominent.

Third, take black-and-white photos with high light tone, medium light tone and low light tone.

Black-and-white photos are mainly divided into three categories: high tone, medium tone and low tone:

Highlights: Most photos with highlights are white, and only a few are black. This kind of photos can bring readers a bright, light and elegant feeling, which is suitable for shooting beautiful scenery, children, girls and so on.

Mid-tone: Mid-tone photos are the most common. When the black, white and gray parts in a photo are evenly distributed, it is a middle-tone photo. At this time, the feeling brought by photos often depends on the contrast of photos.

Low light tone: Low light tone is the antonym of high light tone-the picture is mostly black, and only a few are prominent white, giving people a deep, mysterious, strong and strong feeling.

It should be noted that when shooting, we should not indulge in taking photos of a certain color, but carefully weigh the scene and decide which photo is more suitable. Light-colored photos should be exposed by one level, while light-colored photos can be lowered by one level to express a stronger feeling.

Fourth, look for high contrast.

Because black-and-white photos lack color, only black-and-white contrast can express feelings, so contrast is a very important element in black-and-white photos. When we shoot (even if we take color photos and then turn them into black and white with a soft worker), we must first find out the environment with high contrast (obvious light and dark) before shooting.

Black and white photo shooting skills:

Some natural scenery and human bodies can be well converted into black and white photos. Creative use of lighting, choose the right angle to shoot, you will find that these abstract objects have a great exposure latitude.

Choose to take high-quality black and white photos in well-defined places.

When shooting monochrome pictures, we must emphasize the sense of structure of the photos. This technology can properly expose the shadow part of the picture, take one in strong light and one in weak light, and then mix the pictures through software.