I did another session outside during golden hour. Things didn’t quick work out the way I had in mind, but the photos were salvaged by grayscaling them. While I do try to use this approach as a crutch to save some photos that’d otherwise not work out, by no means does this mean anything is wrong with grayscaled photos. There is an art to doing it and not every photo will work grayscaled.
For starters, taking away the color means the subject or subjects within the photo become an even bigger focus. The less detail you have the easier it becomes to focus on the details you leave behind. This means you generally want photos that lack a busy background. A busy background might work in color but it tends to turn into a jumbled mess when you take away the color that lets you see the layers in the detail.
As for me, two things I love to do with grayscaled photos is utilize older glass panes, the messier and scratchier the better, and also do lots of framing. Grayscaling tents to make both photography scenarios more appealing to my eye. The glass adds to the drama in the photo and the framing adds to the focus of the photo. But that’s just a tiny slither of the surface of it, grayscaled photos are their own ocean of art and there are vast depths to that area of the craft.