There are many reason why a photographer might choose to make a portrait in black and white. This post features just of few of them:

Paul Simon once said that best way to tell if someone was a true artist is if they grew, changed and improved the quality of their work over the years. What about you? How has your work changed over the last four years? Certainly a heckuva lot has changed in camera technology during the last twenty years.

In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 each year and is in memory of all of the people who were killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001. A bill to make September 11 a national day of mourning was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on October 25, 2001 by Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) with 22 co-sponsors. The result was the resolution to proclaim September 11, 2002, as the first Patriot Day.

A muse is a “woman or a force personified as a woman who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist.” In Latin, a shrine to the Muses was called a museum. Artists or poets would call on their Muse to inspire them and a poem itself might begin with such a call.

These days not every photographer started making images with film cameras but any understanding of how to obtain proper exposure is helped with just a little bit of information about how film capture worked and still works today.