There’s more to black and white photography than just a lack of color. As a creative medium, traditionalists may call it “monochrome” while digital imagers prefer “grayscale” but to paraphrase Billy Joel, “it’s still black and white to me.”

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

The next part is knowing how to pose your subjects comfortably (key word) and is one of the most critical elements in creating saleable portraits. You may be able to photograph a beautiful woman but if her pose is awkward, clumsy, or  unattractive, it reduces your ability to produce usable portraits.

When learning how to previsualize infrared imaging possibilities, I suggest the first thing you should do is forget everything you think you know about photography with visible light. That’s because when shooting infrared images everything you know about visible light is wrong.

I think it’s a pretty obvious thing to say but I’ll say it anyway: camera equipment doesn’t make photographs, people do.