Value is the degree of light and dark in a design. It is the contrast between black and white and all the tones in between. Value can be used with a color as well as black and white.

Value in Black and White:

Black and white photography is very effective when it comes to capturing abstract surrealist scenes, or to highlight the paterns and contrast without having the extra information of color.

It helps bring out the focus on the eyes (make everything darker except the eyes).

• Henri Cartier Bresson
• Daido Moriyama (https://www.google.com/search?q=daido+moriyama&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTstjIkbD7AhXyS_EDHcseARsQ_AUoAXoECAMQAw&biw=1440&bih=701&dpr=2)
• zhou hanshun long exposure
• beata podwysocka
• Ansel Adams (but it is more landscape so I might take some color photos I have already taken in weXplore and then edit them to black and white).
• Pablo Inirio (Dodge and burn)
• kishin shinoyama
• john coplans

Notes to edit:

Black and white photography is something that will never go out of style. While the bright colors of contemporary photographs are eye-catching and visually appealing, there’s something about looking at a black and white photograph that really allows you to feel connected to the image. Perhaps it has something to do with the distinct lack of color; without having an array of bright colors to focus on, viewers are forced to look deeper into a photograph – into the expression of the subject’s face, into the lines and shapes that make up the subject, into the distinct differences between light and shadow. There are plenty of aspects of photographs that go unnoticed when looking at a photograph in color. By reducing it to its black and white state, more is observed.