The world is colorful enough
The world is colorful enough
Like Katie said.....
'cause I like it. Nuff said.
Don't shoot alot of b&w any more but it was how I was taught when I started with 35mm & when I started shooting large format . . . guess what?
PS Just got the 5x4 Bender together & was on my way down South (Glades) stopped by & spent the night with my nephew. After supper we were talking & I ended up doing my first shot as a b&w table top of one of his model cars. It made for a nice evening at home. We did the setup on a mirror, used a Ace Hardware Calender (little short & painted out the logo). Shot it & processed the film at the kitchen sink all in one evening, we both enjoyed it.
Last edited by Clay Turtle; 22-May-2008 at 16:23. Reason: PS
Because photos of lewd, naked girls in color are called porn.
Porn is in sRGB too....
As a rule I tend to shoot the scene as it presents itself & therefore I carry (generally color slide & negative as well as b&w. As others have stated sometimes I shoot color negative but transform it to b&w because it looks better to me. Hm . . . Hadn't considered it but a digital file from a positive could be transformed into b&w as well. Hadn't really considered that idea. Hey, thanks for the thought!
B&W endless "palette" have great plasticity and matches easily with my brain "matière gris" !!!
Dynamic ranges moves like Yin and Yang:-)
i do both.
B&W is a bit easier for me in that i can do it all very easily. i mean mixing the appropriate chemicals to printing on silver paper or VDB. i like being able to use big negatives (well, big for me). i enjoy the process from loading the holders to mixing the various chems to burning and dodging in the DR.
on the color side i enjoy shooting some of the great colors i see. sometimes that great blue sky with giant puffy clouds that are colored from white to gray to dark gray/purple just talk to me in color. i find that many great color scenes also look good in B&W. but some very busy not so good color scenes look better in B&W. the draw back is i do not do my own color printing. so that means scanning and working with PS....that is something i do not have very much knowledge in and have not learned....someday i will learn but for now i have so many other things to learn that my schedule is over full........
eddie
My YouTube Channel has many interesting videos on Soft Focus Lenses and Wood Cameras. Check it out.
My YouTube videos
oldstyleportraits.com
photo.net gallery
Well, I do some things in infrared. I like the ethereal and otherworldly aspect of infrared. Possibly because it highlights the fact that what we are experiencing with this photo is a fabrication based on reality but not a representation of reality. Never thought about it much deeper than that.
But I will tell you that as of right now, I chose to not use black and white usually because I feel that color (for me) adds a very important, sometimes critical, element to my photos.
Bookmarks