What’s wrong with me?!?! I went to India, came back with 1187 images, and the first ones that I’m showing here are in black and white?!?! From the country that people go to to experience color ?!?!
The first thing that I did to my images was to group them according to their location (so I could apply metadata easily). But in any one location I took images of people, animals, buildings, temples, etc. and it just seemed right to group the people together, animals together and so on. So now I have directories according to the image content, and the first directory that I started organizing and editing was “portraits.” I started with about 100 images and after some light image editing, sorting and rating, I’m down to 62 images that I’ll probably end up keeping. Of those, the faces of the older people seemed the most expressive, and — you got it — older faces lend themselves very well to black and white.
So here are my four black-and-white portrait picks from the 2008 India images.
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Stunning portraiture! These don’t need color to tell their stories. Digital or film?
Thank you, Andrea! These are digital — Canon 30D + 70-200/4 IS
I love the last image among these four. The other three are great too but the last one is the best. Please do tell us more about your India journey.
Black and White Portraits from India…
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My favourite is the second. Unusual face. I was confident that you will come back with beautiful images.