Black and White photography isn’t just to fix things.

So many times I see people suggest converting a photograph to black and white as a way to “fix the noise” of a high ISO digital photograph and it always makes me roll my eyes. Black and white photography isn’t for “fixing” a noisy photograph. There are what I would think to be valid reasons to convert a digital photograph to black and white. One of which would be because you want the look of black and white as an artist.

Black and white photography, to me, is an artistic statement. I believe that sometimes, the color gets in the way of the subject. The scene in the featured photo is just an example of that, to me. To me, in this particular scene, the color was a distraction,

One of the problems I had when I was photographing the Flint Hills was finding a composition. Looking at the views was amazing in person. You could see for miles and miles but often in a photograph, the scene appeared uninteresting unlike what it appeared like in person.

Choose to create black and white photographs for artistic reasons, not fixing things. Use black and white to create and enhance the story. Use black and white to show the soul of your scene.