Weekly Photography Challenge Black and White Portraits

A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt

Last week’s challenge was also black and white and in keeping with the them, earlier today I shared a set of black and white portraits. Your challenge this week, if you choose to accept it, is do photograph a real person and do a portrait in black and white.

By Sean Molin

There are lots of articles here on dPS to help you with that and get some inspiration including:

• Create Better Black and White Photos Using Local Adjustments in Lightroom 5
• How to Convert Photos to Black and White in Lightroom
• How to See in Black and White
• DISCUSS: When you Photograph People in Black and White, you Photograph their Souls

Here are a few more example black and white portraits:

By Sean McGrath

By Ben Raynal

By Neil Moralee

By stephane

By Ronn aka “Blue” Aldaman

By Dietmar Temps

By Nicolas Alejandro

By Gustave Deghilage

By Dietmar Temps

By i k o

By Fadzly Mubin

If you want to learn more about black and white grab a copy of the newest dPS ebook The Essential Guide to Black and White Photography at early bird pricing only until September 13th.

Share your black and white portrait images

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your leading lines using pathways and roads in this week’s challenge.