In general, the preservation of hand-coloured photographs is similar to that of colour and monochrome photography.

Lighting is particularly important for monochrome photography, where there is no colour information, only the interplay of highlights and shadows.

Monochrome photography is photography where the image produced has a single hue, rather than recording the colours of the object that was photographed.

Until The Curse of Frankenstein horror films had not shown blood in a graphic way, or when they did it was concealed by monochrome photography.

The bridge was repainted with brown instead of the original green painting, because the monochrome photography of the time did not indicate what its former colour was.

In monochrome photography coloured filters affect the relative brightness of different colours; red lipstick may be rendered as anything from almost white to almost black with different filters.

The most significant records were released between 1963 and 1968 and are instantly recognizable through their artwork which often consists of a monochrome photography or painting scattered with small red dots.

In The Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt complimented the intricacy of the cinematography and the monochrome photography, but judged the film to be "tedious", "repetitive" and "nearly unwatchable".

This reduces oblique reflections from non-metallic surfaces, can darken the sky in colour photography (in monochrome photography colour filters are more effective), and can saturate the image more by eliminating unwanted reflections.