The analogous photography began its history with the chemical films in black and white, it was a combination of silver halides what allowed to give the sensitivity to the light on the film to be able to record the first images, and it was not until 1861 when the Scottish physicist Clerk Maxwell manages to find the first invention of a color film, this undoubtedly would change completely the history of photography.

That's why I have dedicated this publication to how to correctly highlight a black-and-white photograph, nowadays digital cameras regardless of their model or brand offer the option to photograph in black and white and even today black and white photography is still used for genres such as documentary photography.

The first attempt to take advantage of black-and-white photography was made by Ansel Adams, an American photographer who is the creator of the zone system technique whose mission is to expose it correctly for development in a way that is optimal and legible to the eye.

Although this system of zones is not totally obsolete for digital photography this is exactly what I intend to debate, if we understand that Photoshop and Lightroom are systems for the digital edition of photography that emulate what would come to be an analog developing laboratory with very similar functions, to better contextualize I will put an example with another program like Virtual DJ which digitally emulates all the functions of a turntable or DENON or mixing machine.

Currently, there are many technologies to edit digital black and white photographs, my choice and the best result has given me the show with Lightroom for it I chose a series of color photographs that I have taken in black and white, these are flowers that as we all know are very colorful and lively.

It is easy and practical I assure you that it will work, I do not intend to make a tutorial or place screen captures of the program in question, the steps will be as follows:

When you take a black and white photograph of colorful things such as flowers, you only have to note on a piece of paper what color is the flower you are photographing, with this information when we are revealing we will go to the black and white command and there we will find a series of colors that the program selects by default to manipulate those areas containing magenta, yellow, blue, green, purple and others. Then in your notes look for which color corresponds to that object and before manipulating the controls observe the picture and see if you understand the image, when I say this I mean that if there is contrast or saturation or some areas are darker or more illuminated, generally open areas that will not be understood so it is time to manipulate the bar of the color chosen with this start to notice how some areas darken and as it becomes clear as you manipulate the color, the idea is to notice the details of the flower, then you define the details of texture, you can go to the basic section where you can retouch the contrast, brightness, clarity, blacks in order to give more body to our photo. You will surely have an impressive result in the final processing of the images.

Another trick is before photographing in black and white to observe very well the frame before making the capture, analyzing the perspective, rule of thirds, and also the most important which are the dark and illuminated areas, the more contrast between dark areas and illuminated areas better will be the black and white photography.