[Part seven of the Photography Fundamentals series, be sure to check out all 10 posts!]
Shooting in color and controlling your color palette are ridiculously hard.
Unless you’re in a studio with an art director choosing the set color and dressing for everyone and everything in your scene, 90% of the color palette of your image is out of your control. That’s why so many photographers shoot black and white all the time. With B/W pictures, you don’t have to worry about whether what your subject is wearing clashes ridiculously with your background.
Don’t give up too soon though. Keep a few things in mind and you can avoid most of the problems that would lead you to a preemptive “Command-U” in your editing software. Before you go black and white, try the following techniques.
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