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1. My girlfriend had an 8 X 10 school portrait of her when she was sixteen in a frame that she put out on a living room end table. She told me it’s not in color, it’s black and white. I told her it’s what you call monotone. Monotone? The tones are not from solid black to solid white with different shades of gray in between. They’re not? Nope! Take a good look at the picture. They’re brown. Brown? Yep! And this can make a beautiful picture.

   We were looking at a scrap book, and we came across the same portrait, only it was 5 X 7 and in green.

   My girlfriend used to paint and draw, and also do pottery. Then she met this guy who got her interested in photography. No, it wasn’t me. When I was a kid, I had a small darkroom in my basement, so I know a thing or two about photography. Black and white can be very beautiful. There’s the image tone of the paper: warm, nutrail, and cold. And there’s the developer for that paper. Or you can mix and match papers and developers. However though, when you make prints, you want to use nutrail papers. But it depends on what you are trying to do.

   The photo of the guns don’t seem to be in true b&w….or are they? But the lighting and the tones along with the contrast make for a great picture.

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