Black and White, a classic in photography. It is a unique world, as individuals start to perceive things differently (more on that in the next paragraph). It strikes the viewer, evokes emotions, gives a sense of contrast, textures, structures, lightings, atmosphere and even an era of time.

 

I'll like to categorise some of my portraits in terms of black and white. Although it is something that I am still learning on, especially contrast, composition, mood and lighting. These aspects really shine in a black and white world, perhaps colours are a distraction, well it definitely is if an individual did frequency separation and dodge & burn during photo retouch editing. It's a thing to use the b/w adjustment layer in photoshop to not just see the true colours but, true values (how light or dark a colour is) as well.  

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There's also a variety of ways to edit your black and white photos to compliment the mood and lighting. Some examples are a high contrast b/w, low contrast, matte, subtle matte, selective value and greyscale. Hold up, I know that greyscale is a range of grey shades from white to black which simply means black and white. What I mean is to tone the photo like an artwork so we can build up the dynamic range further during editing. As for subtle matte, some people prefer a photo without an absolute white/black value. These examples apply to colour as well, that is when tone, shades and tint comes in.