Capturing Tracy & Justin's Wedding with Black and White photographs

For Tracy & Justin’s wedding I placed a strong emphasis on creating superb digital B&W images from their special day. Though five years ago I would have never guessed that I would enjoy or even be willing to create digital B&W images instead of using film, now I really enjoy capturing weddings, portraits, food and architecture digitally with the intention of creating black and white post-production photographs. I must admit that I got a little lucky with the weather for this wedding with some soft clouds and decreased glare for most of the day.

I hear from many commercial photographers that a good deal of them still find it difficult to create superb digital B&W images. I was hesitant to use digital for B&W photography from the onset years ago until I learned some great techniques for achieving the contrast, shadow and grain qualities that I yearned for with digital darkroom manipulations and some specific shooting techniques. First of all I almost always shoot in RAW format and especially if I am planning on the images ending up B&W; this way I can play with shadows much better and a whole slew of other parameters.

I love creating Black and White wedding images because I feel they add a great sense of class and ageless beauty to capturing such amazing events. Additionally as viewers our eyes are drawn to specific shadow and line details that don’t pop out as much in color images.

I hope you enjoy these images from this late April wedding in southern New Hampshire at the Brookstone Park in Derry.

The boys

 

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