Comments on Black and White Photography
Jan 11, 2016 17:16:04 #
BobbyT wrote:
that is interesting! Thanks!
BTW, when posting web addresses, don't use the "s" after http.
BTW, when posting web addresses, don't use the "s" after http.
you are right I should have used
https://nei.nih.gov/health/color_blindness/facts_about
Jan 11, 2016 18:07:36 #
Valley3photo: Great shots but I'm afaid I look at them and think how much better they could be in color.
Jan 12, 2016 00:04:01 #
I had color blindness when I was tested in the Navy, it was enough to keep me out of OCS but not enough to disqualify me from the service. During Vietnam they waved the color blind test for OCS. I still have it but it is very slight and I have trained myself to see most of the colors, managed to get through Interior Design school.. One advantage is that Blk and White is much easier as you tend to see composition and shapes better than color.
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Jan 12, 2016 18:18:37 #
dickwilber
Loc: Indiana (currently)
Interesting thread. When I started getting interested in better photography, maybe four decades ago, I was told B&W was the only way to go. But I never saw "in Black & White"!
On a trip backpacking in the Rockies, I took half color slide film, half black & white negative film. Back home I had the Kodachrome processed, as I went about developing and printing the monochrome film in a makeshift bathroom darkroom. And I did come up with some good black & white prints: black blacks, white whites, good contrast. And as I looked at the best of them, I could visualize how green the foliage would have been, how blue the skies, and lamented how much I would have preferred those shots to have been in color. Until I was 100% digital (I did convert some digital images to monochrome for a client), that was my last foray into black & white photography.
But today, with the ability to view the scene monochrome in Live View, and to record it both as a B&W and full color, I may give it another go. There is, after all, a good deal of photographic insight that can be gleaned from shooting black & white.
On a trip backpacking in the Rockies, I took half color slide film, half black & white negative film. Back home I had the Kodachrome processed, as I went about developing and printing the monochrome film in a makeshift bathroom darkroom. And I did come up with some good black & white prints: black blacks, white whites, good contrast. And as I looked at the best of them, I could visualize how green the foliage would have been, how blue the skies, and lamented how much I would have preferred those shots to have been in color. Until I was 100% digital (I did convert some digital images to monochrome for a client), that was my last foray into black & white photography.
But today, with the ability to view the scene monochrome in Live View, and to record it both as a B&W and full color, I may give it another go. There is, after all, a good deal of photographic insight that can be gleaned from shooting black & white.
Jan 12, 2016 20:47:42 #
You should enjoy getting back in black and white. I have without the D76, Stop Bath and Fixer.
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