Canadian photographer Ted Grant once famously said, “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.” He was talking about the interpretive quality of black and white photos and how emotions are conveyed much stronger in black and white.
Street photography, in particular, presents a great avenue to dabble in B&W photography, and candid street portraits work especially well in B&W. Producing great B&W shots is much more than just converting an image to grayscale. You need to have an understanding of which scene would work better in B&W than color. It's equally important to take control of the tone during the conversion process.
This post is a collection of some wonderful candid B&W portrait shots. We hope that they'll inspire you to create some of your own. If you'd like to learn how to create great B&W photos, do take a look at Kent DuFault's guide on creating better B&W photos. But for now, let's sit back and enjoy these photographs.
Create Better B&W Photos
If you are interested in learning how to create black and white images that stand out – with a step by step guide that will equip you with everything you need to know, take a look at Kent DuFault's eBook Better Black and White, on Photzy. You will learn how to evaluate a color scene for tone and how to convert an image to B&W, in a step-by-step process. Click here now to check it out.
