What is your favorite book on B&W digital photography? Why is it your favorite?
I don't really have a favorite, per se, on digital black and white photography. I have several favorites on photography, featuring black and white. I've learned from them, and over time and with my association with some UHH members, applied what I knew to digital. It simply took looking at technique from a different perspective.
--Bob
rdgreenwood wrote:
What is your favorite book on B&W digital photography? Why is it your favorite?
rdgreenwood wrote:
What is your favorite book on B&W digital photography? Why is it your favorite?
What titles are catching
your eye, rdgreenwood? Amazon lists many photography books featuring b&w images.
Is there a particular subject or genre that you’d like to try shooting in b&w?
rjaywallace wrote:
What titles are catching your eye, rdgreenwood? Amazon lists many photography books featuring b&w images.
Is there a particular subject or genre that you’d like to try shooting in b&w?
Oh, goodness! I teach photography and have been shooting b&w since 1968. I posted this question because a student asked me the question. I wasn’t looking for jibber-jabber; it’s a really simple question: What book on digital, b&w photography do you recommend?
AndyH
Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Ansel Adams’s original five volume set. The Camera, The Negative, The Primt, Natural Light, Artificial Light. Film based, but still the best, and easily adapted to digital.
Andy
Any books of the photography of Fr. Frank Browne, SJ, (1880-1960) the Jesuit priest who took the only photos of the Titanic while it was at sailing. Browne's uncle Robert, the Bishop of Coyne who raised him and his brother after their father's death (and purchased young Frank his first camera), bought him passage on the Titanic's voyage from Southampton, England to Queenstown, Ireland via Cherbourg, France. He took multiple photos onboard, including the radio room, the gym, and many of the passengers. He disembarked at Queenstown under orders from his provincial superior despite a couple offering to pay his passage to the U.S. He released his photos after the sinking. Any photos in the media taken aboard ship while it was sailing were taken by Fr. Browne. He continued to photograph mostly in Ireland, for the rest of his life.
After his death a trunk containing approximately 20,000 acetate negatives was discovered by a Jesuit historian. Apparently all were labeled and dated. They were preserved in digital format. Over twenty volumes of his work have been released thus far. He is considered one of the premier chroniclers of life in Ireland and Dublin of the early twentieth century.
The superb photos demonstrate an eye for composition as well as narrative. They are worthy of study before going out to shoot black and white.
rdgreenwood wrote:
Oh, goodness! I teach photography and have been shooting b&w since 1968. I posted this question because a student asked me the question. I wasn’t looking for jibber-jabber; it’s a really simple question: What book on digital, b&w photography do you recommend?
Great answer. Can the BS please answer my question.
rdgreenwood wrote:
What is your favorite book on B&W digital photography? Why is it your favorite?
No comment on the Digital point as I'd give the same answer for B&W Photography anything, Ansel Adams' "The Negative" followed by "The Print", and for that matter, the entire two complete Series of Books by Ansel Adams. There are a number of good books that will help you translate Adams' film concepts into digital. But the bottom line is seeing Light in B&W in your mind. I did that so long I can still visualize a B&W image for digital B&W conversion.
rdgreenwood wrote:
Oh, goodness! I teach photography and have been shooting b&w since 1968. I posted this question because a student asked me the question. I wasn’t looking for jibber-jabber; it’s a really simple question: What book on digital, b&w photography do you recommend?
You might have to ask a younger person who has recently discovered a book to help teach them self. Us old geezers learned this stuff like you did back in the Sixties and Seventies. Much of it is obvious to us once we understood digital photography.
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