52 Assignments: Black & White Photography

by Lloyd-Duckett, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781781454442
• ISBN10: 1781454442
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-01-01
• Publisher: Ammonite Press

Summary

52 Assignments: Black and White Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

From capturing clouds, reflections, and water to shooting cityscapes, architecture, and vehicles, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to embrace this timeless art and convey the essence of your subject through shades of light and dark alone. Whether you’re photographing natural elements or man-made landscapes, each assignment encourages you to look at the world in a new way, relying on shape, texture, and the source, direction, and intensity of light, rather than color, to create eye-catching images. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists, and tech specs, creating a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your monochromatic photography.

Sales points:

• A year’s worth of weekly photography assignments to kick-start your creativity
• Innovative briefs from a leading photographer 
• Black-and-white photo challenges in a format to fit in your camera bag 
• Aimed at beginners and enthusiasts
• Assignments include: Reflections, Texture, Long Exposure, Tall buildings, Streets at Night, Cityscape, Creative Selfies, Silhouettes

Author Biography

Brian Lloyd-Duckett is the Principal and Course Tutor at Streetsnappers, a specialist in street photography workshops and tutorials in London and cities across Europe. A highly successful commercial and editorial photographer, he teaches as a Visiting Lecturer on photography degree courses. He has worked for many leading newspapers and commercial organizations, but his hobby and passion is street photography. He is the author of Mastering Street Photography (Ammonite Press).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:
1. Still life
2. The one roll challenge - 36 shots in 7 days
3. Portrait on a shoestring
4. Reflections
5. Petrol head - stylish automotive photography
6. Embrace your 50 - use the nifty fifty, the ‘forgotten’ standard lens
7. Feel the tension - dynamic tension
8. Tree of life - use a solitary tree to capture a bleak landscape
9. Capture a decisive moment
10. A sense of place
11. Less is more
12. Zoned-in – Ansel Adams’ zone system
13. Black is black
14. A creative selfie
15. Street portrait
16. Clouds
17. Cityscape
18. Abstract
19. Negative space
20. Slow photography
21. Shoot through a layer
22. Down the market
23. Tall buildings
24. Shoot an essay
25. Silhouette
26. A timeless look in a contemporary setting
27. Fun with words
28. Water
29. Zine - shoot, design and produce your first zine
30. Dodging and burning
31. Texture
32. Long exposures
33. Recreate the look of an old Rolleiflex image
34. High key
35. Patterns
36. Motion blur
37. Grain
38. Streets at night
39. All in good cause
40. Neighbourhood
41. Two shades only
42. Shoot a protest
43. Big bokeh
44. Architectural detail
45. Contre-jour
46. Perfectly imperfect
47. Strong shapes
48. Experiment with the colour channels
49. High viewpoints
50. Decay
51. Metal
52. Found objects