What does black and white mean in art/ photography?

Colours are known as wavelengths which are reflected by objects to the human eye. White is known to be represented as pure light in art, where as black is the absence of light. These two non-colours could also be know to be associated with life and death situations, as well as creating questions about identity. Editing into black and white also helps to bring out different contrasts in order to help bring out the effects above.

I have decided to experiment with black and white edits in order to change the contrast of images.

When editing my images into black and white i first pressed the ‘develop’ button on the top right hand side which led me onto the editing page shown in the image below. This step was followed by firstly pressing the ‘auto’ button so the images white balance changed.

I then pressed the ‘black and white’ button which changed the image to black and white.

I then edited the contrast/exposure/ highlights/ shadowing etc to ensure the image looked as best as it could.

Image after editing…

This process was then repeated for the images below…