subject: The Basics of Black and White Digital Photography [print this page] Black and white photography can convey images and emotions that just cant be duplicated in a color photograph. You can capture a sense of a simpler place and time with a colorless photo and digital camera with black and white capability will give you feed back when taking these types of pictures instantly. Not all digital cameras do these types of pictures but image manipulating software can do it for you. Getting your black and white photos looking their best can be accomplished through several techniques. Image manipulation is one such technique that can create truly unique images. Using this technique you will need to convert JPEG images, which are 8-bit images, into 16-bit color images. Another technique that can be used along with image manipulation when working with black and white digital images is correcting the colorcasts. Colorcasts are caused by poor light conditions but they can be changed by using image editing software such as Photoshop Elements or the Imaging Factory. These types of software let you manipulate photographic images by allowing you to convert and fix mis-lighted areas to get good looking black and white photos. Another technique is to set your digital camera to evening or night shot mode. This converts any pictures taken into monochromatic images. By removing the saturation on these types of images you will get a black and white picture. Many of todays newer cameras also have a black and white setting that makes taking these types of pictures rather simple. Just point and shoot and you have that old-fashioned shot or interesting landscape scene you just cant get with a color picture. Black and white digital photography can be a truly great alternative way to capture the images of life.
