Whilst in Cape Town I wanted to capture striking portraits of the locals with the use of my 35mm film SLR camera, therefore I dedicated this camera to capturing only portraits using a prime 90mm portrait lens and photographing on Black and White film (Ilford FP4 125)
Black and White imagery can evoke more emotion due to the viewer not being distracted from colour but just to the simple compositional values and sharp focus on the subject matter . . . however this being an experimental brief I have taken steps within a majority of my black and white portraits to incorporate colour via layering textures to see if this opinion can be argued.
This is my Contact Sheet of the Portraits of People I Photographed in South Africa, created via scanning the original negatives.
This is the original scanned image direct from the negative
Edited Image via Lightroom
Texture applied via Photoshop
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