Black and White is clean, this is one reason why it is so popular among teachers. Black and white focuses the attention on form, shading, pattern, and other graphic concepts, to give them an unusual quality with tone and hue.

With a clear view toward graphics, composition, and design, the photographer can concentrate on:

• How contrast creates lines and how lines lead the eye or psychologically affect the viewer by curving, lying flat, diagonal, or vertical.
• How shapes or lines make a pattern and how shape with texture gives an object form.
• How highlights compete for attention and dark tones create an important negative space.

Many artists prefer black and white because it causes the photographer and the viewer to see the world in a way that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

All photographs – not just those labeled “abstracts” – are only two-dimensional representations, or abstractions, of a three-dimensional scene. Black and white makes a photograph even more of an abstraction by removing the distracting qualities of color and allowing us to concentrate on the graphic elements.

With the color removed from the overall expression, the shapes and lines in them take on more significance. The graphic concepts are easier to see.
Some things just look better when shot in black and white. With it, you can find interest in everyday objects and scenes around you. What might appear boring when shot in color suddenly becomes fascinating when captured in black and white.  So check it out and see what you can come up with.