Black and White Photography
Black and white photography uses the tones from pure black to pure white. To me, well-done grayscale images are more powerful than color images. They strip away our focus on or preoccupation with color and leave us just a bit off balance and just a bit more open to the relationships of tones, shapes and line to one another.
Often color in photographs are distracting to a viewer because they have little or no value as a compositional elements within the frame. Our world is in color. We expect it to be there. Perhaps, grayscale images strip away strip away some of our expectations leaving us a bit more open to the image itself.
When shooting a color subject, one has to be quite certain that the colors within that image are compositional elements rather than just big hunks of color that add little or nothing to the image.
Or not.
Maybe I have been doing black and white for so long that I am more comfortable with its possibilities.
Maybe, I am blowing bubbles through my hat and I just “like” it better.