Black and White Photography
Enjoy collection of my favorite black and white photos. Mostly includes street photography, but also few portraits… Some old, some new, I’ve collected them during last few years, and hold them dear as every single one of them reminds me of a particular mood and thought.
“Black and White” – is incredibly charged notion in our society. It describes contrast, personality of the people, endless battle or timeless balance of good and evil. In photography it’s a powerful tool to strip reality of colors and display bare bone truth!
Black and white medium: the beginning, the art, the soul of photography… is my favorite working space. Concept is very simple, all you need to do is to convey an idea in two basic colors… “Black and White”. But this simplicity leads to complications, shooting in monochrome is like stripping yourself of the powerful visual tool: impact of color.
I believe challenge lies in the fact that colors play big role in animal kingdom, and obviously in our lives. We are surrounded with colors: red is warning, sexually charged color; green soothing, associated with calmness and nature; blue, watery dreamy mood… All I’m just trying to say is that black and white medium is not natural – it’s an imaginary world for, maybe even a dream.
But as strange as it may sound, this challenges or problems of black and white photography are exactly the strengths of it… Most striking photographs that I’ve seen, most memorable fractions of the second, where exactly the ones done in monochrome…
Edit: This post was made in 2007. Five years have passed since, and now in 2012 when I view these photos I see so many areas where they can be improved… especially in post-processing, one day I will re-work them all and also remove those ugly watermarks I used to utilize in those years.
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Trackback URL | Comments RSS FeedHi Sandro,
Nice pictures! By the way, I have shandrophoto.com
Michael
The fifth photo is really nice Sandro. Very good idea to shoot the sun lighting her hair.
Nice captures. I like your product.
beautiful photos! you’ve got some powerful images there
Great BW photos, would like to see more!! Especially love the gun and the lady with the hair…
Hola Sandro
Muy lindas fotos, buenos trabajos, me encantan.
Un saludo
Hi Sandro, beautiful photos! I also love black and white (always keep a camera loaded with Tri-X). Do you use b/w film, or shoot digitally and convert on the computer?
Oh, by the way, thanks for the comment on the bean. Could you repost it? I didn’t have the site set up to accept comments, and you were my first! Just curious, how did you find my site?
Thanks again,
Mike
I love the fifth picture. There all stunning, really, but the way you captured the individual strands of hair adds so much depth to that photo!
Also- thanks for the comment on my pictures.
Might I ask what kind of camera you’re using??
Nina » hi sorry for the late reply
I just installed comment reply plugin for wordpress.
Anyways, I use canon eos 30D, with several lenses: 17-40 f/4L, 50mm f/1.8
I like your B&W, 5*****
Congratulations
it’s cool!
dear sandro, sorry for such a late respone. not only i know she is your sister but she is one of my best friends:))) so once more–i do really love your pictures as they are great,you have a natural talent which just has to be used in the best way. so good luck and enjoy whatever you start doing. oh and recover soon.
wow. i like all of these photographs, but the bottom one really reminds me of my photography sytle. keep it up!
Hi, I love you photography and I am doing a photography seminar on you for marks. I just wanted to know what country you came from, year of birth, and possibly what is your most famous picture. I would really appreciate if you could help me, there is no information that I can find. Thank-you if you can answer them,
Student
Student » Hey!
I’m from Georgia, Tbilisi. 1987/04/26.
I have no idea if any of them are famous… but the very last portrait on this page has grabbed allot of attention. This is my sister in her usual daydreaming state, photo is called: ‘Defy the laws of gravity’.
Hope that helps,
thanks!
The gun is powerful.
greetings earthlings |:), just loving the piccys sister! you go gal friend! love ya sandro x0xo0xo0x
there really nicccceee
Very nice B&W photos! Thank you for sharing them with us!
@Roxana: Thanks
love your work, my fav is the guy wanting a light, great story thanks for sharing
@Peter Haken: thank you, that photo is my fav too!
thanks for giving me tips and tricks.and photographs are all nice and excellent.may i know your experience.
@sedeepto: thank you. And can you rephrase the question?
sandro are you georgian???
yes.
hi sandro, my name is Ricci. i discovered photography when i was 8 years old and fell in love. im 15 now and still madly in love with it. i want to make a carrier out of it and i am very good. being in a small southern town tho my dad says it wont make money and i’ll have to join the army or work on oil rigs… so to prove a point to him and for my own personal curiosity… as a pro photographer how much money do u make? and is it a good carrier path to fallow?
hello sandro.. beautiful shots…esp. the last one..do you have any tips for digital camera user like me? to atleast get a good shot…God bless
pamela » hey, thx!
try clicking on “photography courses” in the main navigation menu, you will find lessons grouped by difficulty 
hope you find what you are looking for… 