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Originally Posted by shimmy2
halfway serious question dean, do black/brown girls film well in b/w or are there contrast issues.
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Yea they film ok. The challenge is to make sure that you don't put a black girl in front of a black (or dark) background (unless for special effect). Dark skin against lighter background and light skin against darker background will be best for good contrast & good separation in B&W photography. I actually "burned in" (darkened) the tree a little to allow her to have a bit of separation from the tree in my B&W pic here.
In color photography, it's not as much of a challenge because you now have "color" that you can use to help separate your model from the background, not just "tones" as you have in B&W.
I used to shoot a lot of B&W film years ago and did my own printing as well but haven't done much since I entered the digital age. To be honest, not much demand for it for the folks that I produce content for. I tinker with it once in a while just for fun but I don't shoot any B&W in a serious way
