How often do you shoot in B/W? ... This pertains to both film and DSLRs ....
Dec 7, 2017 01:58:08 #
In my early film days - 70s primarily ... I rarely ever shot with color. In the 80s - I turned to chromes in a big way (printed Cibachromes, back then.) When I began with digital - around 2010 - was so gratified to learn I could switch to monochrome at any time I wanted to. It's a great feature of digital, isn't it? ... For a while, I actually shot everything - both ways - first, in color, then in B/W. Did you go through that process, too?
Dec 7, 2017 02:09:06 #
Very early in the 1960's, as a teenager, B&W then from around the mid 1960's colour (transparencies in the early days and latter for prints).
Since since 2006 always shooting in RAW and then final publication mostly in colour, B&W only to meet "clients" requirements or if a image may look good in B&W.
Since since 2006 always shooting in RAW and then final publication mostly in colour, B&W only to meet "clients" requirements or if a image may look good in B&W.
Dec 7, 2017 03:11:08 #
Ninety percent of my photography is in film.
Of that, seventy percent is Black and White,
with thirty percent colour.
Of that, seventy percent is Black and White,
with thirty percent colour.
Dec 7, 2017 04:09:05 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
Very early in the 1960's, as a teenager, B&W then from around the mid 1960's colour (transparencies in the early days and latter for prints).
Since since 2006 always shooting in RAW and then final publication mostly in colour, B&W only to meet "clients" requirements or if a image may look good in B&W.
Since since 2006 always shooting in RAW and then final publication mostly in colour, B&W only to meet "clients" requirements or if a image may look good in B&W.
I noticed - with your shot of the crowd in front of Buckingham Palace, waiting for the Royal Horse Guard .... tut-tut, Richard ... how could you?
How often do your clients request B/W images, Richard?
Dec 7, 2017 04:11:37 #
Leicaflex wrote:
Ninety percent of my photography is in film.
Of that, seventy percent is Black and White,
with thirty percent colour.
Of that, seventy percent is Black and White,
with thirty percent colour.
You just happened to be able to roll of those percentages, just like that, huh, LF?
Keep a running tally, do you?
When you shoot color, is it mostly negs, chromes, or Digital images?
Dec 7, 2017 05:22:29 #
I used to carry so many film bodies; for color, B&W, slides, high speed and low speed for each, always switching lenses back and forth when I wanted several effects of the same scene. Now, I get ALL of these with one body, and with the awesome span of lenses like the Tamron 18-400, hardly any reason to change lenses, except when light is low. These are awesome times for photography!
Dec 7, 2017 05:33:27 #
Chris T wrote:
In my early film days - 70s primarily ... I rarely ever shot with color. In the 80s - I turned to chromes in a big way (printed Cibachromes, back then.) When I began with digital - around 2010 - was so gratified to learn I could switch to monochrome at any time I wanted to. It's a great feature of digital, isn't it? ... For a while, I actually shot everything - both ways - first, in color, then in B/W. Did you go through that process, too?
I don't shoot B&W - I shoot color and convert in post processing, using any one of seven ways:
https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/7-black-and-white-photoshop-conversion-techniques--photo-488
Dec 7, 2017 05:40:01 #
ELNikkor wrote:
I used to carry so many film bodies; for color, B&W, slides, high speed and low speed for each, always switching lenses back and forth when I wanted several effects of the same scene. Now, I get ALL of these with one body, and with the awesome span of lenses like the Tamron 18-400, hardly any reason to change lenses, except when light is low. These are awesome times for photography!
Isn't it great, El?
That's one helluva lens ... that 18-400 ... who'da thunk it possible, a few years ago?
Dec 7, 2017 05:45:06 #
Gene51 wrote:
I don't shoot B&W - I shoot color and convert in post processing, using any one of seven ways:
https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/7-black-and-white-photoshop-conversion-techniques--photo-488
https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/7-black-and-white-photoshop-conversion-techniques--photo-488
Oh, good, Gene ... thanks for the link ...
Dec 7, 2017 05:52:00 #
Chris T wrote:
I noticed - with your shot of the crowd in front of Buckingham Palace, waiting for the Royal Horse Guard .... tut-tut, Richard ... how could you?
How often do your clients request B/W images, Richard?
How often do your clients request B/W images, Richard?
There was no mention of Buckingham Palace in my reply to your previous thread.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-498738-3.html
"How often do your clients request B/W image"
Rarely
Dec 7, 2017 05:55:14 #
Chris T wrote:
In my early film days - 70s primarily ... I rarely ever shot with color. In the 80s - I turned to chromes in a big way (printed Cibachromes, back then.) When I began with digital - around 2010 - was so gratified to learn I could switch to monochrome at any time I wanted to. It's a great feature of digital, isn't it? ... For a while, I actually shot everything - both ways - first, in color, then in B/W. Did you go through that process, too?
Never. I might play around with converting to B&W, but I never shoot that way.
Dec 7, 2017 06:33:28 #
Chris, without tallying up the totals, my guess is 90% of the time. Over the last 15 years, I think I've used color film only one time for a wedding. Presently, anything I photograph with a digital is shot in color but converted to black and white. Film is 99.999% black and white from the start. Also, film usage has been large format for the most part.
--Bob
--Bob
Chris T wrote:
In my early film days - 70s primarily ... I rarely ever shot with color. In the 80s - I turned to chromes in a big way (printed Cibachromes, back then.) When I began with digital - around 2010 - was so gratified to learn I could switch to monochrome at any time I wanted to. It's a great feature of digital, isn't it? ... For a while, I actually shot everything - both ways - first, in color, then in B/W. Did you go through that process, too?
Dec 7, 2017 06:46:41 #
Most of the time my camera is set to put RAW on one card and B&W jpeg on the other it has helped me as I continue to improve .
Dec 7, 2017 06:49:55 #
Dec 7, 2017 06:52:23 #
Chris T wrote:
In my early film days - 70s primarily ... I rarely ever shot with color. In the 80s - I turned to chromes in a big way (printed Cibachromes, back then.) When I began with digital - around 2010 - was so gratified to learn I could switch to monochrome at any time I wanted to. It's a great feature of digital, isn't it? ... For a while, I actually shot everything - both ways - first, in color, then in B/W. Did you go through that process, too?
I had similar experiences. In the 50's, 60's and 70's, I shot b&w Tri-x for my general photography, news photography etc. and shot ASA (ISO) 100 for my B&W portraits and other well lit shots. I used slide film for my color and Cibachrome paper for enlarging and processing. If it was special, I (MIGHT) send it to a lab for bigger/better treatment.
Now, everything is digital and very easy to go from color to b&w. I generally take hundreds of photos and print a fraction of them. The rest get published online or electronically. AND, I don't have thousands of prints and negatives to store. I do have multi-terabyte drives but the images are well filed and documented so easy to pull up.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.