At first I was very reluctant to shoot street photography in Black&White.As a novice in the world of photography,the real world is in colour.I could not reconcile and rationalise why should street photography should be best shown in Black&White. With the passage of time and more years in photography, I came to realise that photography has nothing to do with the reality but how we perceive and see reality the way we want to and sending the message or story to others.
From reading the books and magazine on B&W Photography and studying the works by the grandmasters of Street Photography, slowly and steadily I got 'converted' to B&W photos not limited to only street photography but also into portraits, landscape, architecture etc.
Ampang Park, KL
Pasar Tani, Serdang
Once the colours are removed from the photos, we shall see what is left-more on size, shape, texture, patterns and tones. The perception gets modified and meaning gets altered.
On the left,I could see the lady was reading newspapers written and printed on real paper. On the other side, the young man was reading God knows what on his smartphone screen, the size is nor bigger than 10% of the old-style newspapers.
To my lovely surprise, I saw 4-men live band was playing alive at Alamanda and they were wearing all blacks with white hats. On another occasion, I was waiting for someone to stop and look at the display by LV at KLCC. I had my dream-comes-true when a lady wearing a black and white shirt stopped to look at the handbags on display. By sheer coincident, the wall was black and white. A stroke of real lady luck came to give me this shot!
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