This is part three of my summer series of monochrome photography, shot during early mornings in my local area. For this part I concentrated on learning more about black and white photography – trying to discover what makes a suitable subject or scene for black and white photography, looking at examples of shape, form and angle to see how they are affected by being shot in black and white, finding good examples of contrast in the environment, and comparing subjects shot in black and white to...

This is the second part of my summer series of monochrome photography, shot during early mornings in my local area. For this part of the series, I concentrated on trying something new to me – high contrast black and white. While the resulting images may not be fantastic, I learned a lot about black and white photography through the process, gaining some knowledge about what works and what doesn’t work. I experimented with different subjects, different angles, and with different qualities of...

I decided to do a series of monochrome photography during the bright summer mornings. Firstly, monochrome works well in bright light as it accentuates light and shadow and gives a great opportunity to incorporate contrast into our photography. Secondly, monochrome photography teaches me about light and shadow, form and shape, aspects of subjects that can sometimes be hidden behind colour. I have divided my monochrome morning photography into four parts. In this, the first part, I simply set...