Colour of Black and White for your Wedding Day. Simply put, we have choices and styles for choosing your wedding images and which do you choose? Both have their place in your wedding album.
It is undeniable the love for vivid colour images soaked in soft golden hour lighting is a true thing of beauty. Colour provides many distractions though too and non relevant details into the picture.
A Colour cluttered scene in colour can be full of distractions. Often, our eyes might take in a rich, beautiful photograph, but emotionally we do not connect as well with our couples. If we strip away the colour, the subject emerges and we are able to connect more emotionally.
With Black & white we capture the emotion or connection between our happy couples. A minimalist approach by choosing black & White offers mindfulness meditation on the subject and they require us to focus on the present and rise above the din of our distraction. When we remove clutter, we feel renewed and centred, and we can focus on what matters.
As a family photographer who specialises in lifestyle and weddings, my main goal is to document the everyday moments and candid emotions for my clients. Ultimately, I want to create images that make my clients feel.
It has been said, “When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.”
I have always loved this quote because it sums up exactly why I love black and white photography.
After the editing process is done and I deliver my final galleries to my clients, I don’t include every image in black and white. I don’t think every image converts well to black and white. I use a monochrome edit when I can identify an image with good lighting, contrast between highlights and shadows (a true white and a true black) and a powerful emotion or connection in the image.
When I identify these criteria and convert the image to black and white, I find black and white photography isolates emotion in a way that colour cannot. It’s then that I am free to feel the human experience on a much deeper level. Those are my favourite images.
Black and white often feel classy, Hollywood Classic or historic, evoking a sense of permanence and authenticity.
This emotional connection can create a mood of introspection or romanticism, as the mind associates monochrome with stories untold or moments frozen in time.
Black and white portrait photography hits different. It strips away the noise, the colors, the distractions — leaving only the soul, the story, and the emotion that lives between the light and the shadows.
From a wrinkle that carries decades of laughter and pain to a gaze that could pierce through silence, every portrait reveals emotion in its purest form.
There’s something magnetic about monochrome. The absence of colour somehow adds more — more mood, more mystery, more meaning. It’s like these images pull you in, asking you to pause, to feel, to listen without words. The way photographers use contrast, composition, and framing turns each face into a living poem. Whether it’s a tear caught mid-fall or the quiet calm in an elderly face, black and white portraiture finds beauty in vulnerability.
In black and white portraiture, it’s about storytelling. The push and pull between shadow and light builds drama, shaping the mood of every shot. Black and White reveal layers of personality and emotion that colour can sometimes hide.
From the sparkle in an eye to the silhouette of a tear, contrast defines the feeling, not just the form. When done right, it creates that goosebump moment — where you can almost feel the subject breathing.