Do you shoot Black & White?
While this may be obvious to some, I get asked this a lot, so clearly there’s some confusion. In the days of film, you made your choice of black and white vs. color when you loaded film into the camera. The shooting, processing and printing were completely different than color. In the digital age, you shoot color and decide what you want your photo to look like after the fact. Photographers call this post processing. While photos sometimes work better in one form of processing or another, many work well in a variety of ways. Post processing includes anything a photographer does to an image after it’s been shot – b&w, sepia, textures, filters – anything that differs from the shot taken in camera.

The most important thing your photographer can do is take well exposed images (not too dark or too light) with a sharp point of focus. That doesn’t mean the entire image should be in focus, often a photo is far more interesting if it’s not, but there should be one person or element in the photo that is sharp. Starting with that solid photographic foundation, a photographer with good computer skills can do most anything. Check out the samples below.

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