Seeing your monochrome images on paper or in person is quite different from viewing them on a digital screen.
Whether you’re using film photography and printing your photos in a darkroom, or you’re a digital photographer who’s tweaking images in Photoshop, make sure to view an analog version of your black-and-white photos. Seeing your monochrome images on paper or in person is quite different from viewing them on a digital screen. Printing your photos can help you better analyze their dynamic range and composition. You can file that under useful black-and-white photography tips, but it’s also more — printing your images can help you begin to engage with them as art, instead of seeing them as mere snapshots.