How To Take Black And White Portraits With Black Background

Theyll compliment your subjects poses and enhance your compositions.

How to take black and white portraits with black background. This masterclass will provide you with the inside look at how I create photo-real portraits with just three colors. Negative space like an empty sky or a black background will give your portrait a minimalistic yet striking look. Setting up a photoshoot for black and white photos is not an exception.

Turn your camera to manual mode and grab a flash. Press the menu button. For example to make your dark background in a portrait as black as possible consider pushing it as far as possible from the person youre capturing.

Wrinkles freckles and fabric will all tell a story of their own in black and white. Find the page called Picture Style and press set. Before you even consider snapping a shot youll need to think about posing camera settings and your lighting.

Set your camera correctly. Do your lighting carefully. It will at the very least be heading towards black.

When you have this juxtaposition bright background dark subject you can expose for the person and the background will be blown out. If you like soft tones and subtler images then you want a softer light source. Distance does magic with any type of portrait including those on a white-and-black background - combined with the proper choice of lighting which is important for black photography especially.

The two strip boxes are placed facing each other in parallel in front of the subject to create even light on the face. My goal is to get you painting photo-real as soon as possible and the sky is the limit for you. If you need to shoot portraits with a black background and dont know where to start consider booking a studio on Peerspace.