ABSTRACT
Light itself becomes the subject of this black-and-white photograph of a church interior, creating a dramatic sense of anticipation and focus. The way it creates harsh shadows and highlights or is dispersed softly throughout the image, the direction from which it comes to light the subject these are the raw ingredients of the fine black-and-white photograph. Changing the lighting contrast by using different light sources of different strengths can increase this and the ratio of these lights is called the lighting ratio. Subject brightness range is the combination of subject contrast and lighting contrast. In black-and-white photography, light is the only ingredient. Without colour and its associations and meanings, you have to work with the presence and absence of light alone. Light falling directly on to a surface will minimise the appearance of irregularities on the surface.
