Do you get tired of black and white?

[ray_g]

I love black and white photography. I have been shooting black and white exclusively for the past several months and even got started developing my own. Reading, looking at black and white photos...

I had some time to scan some photos into my gallery tonight (during "American Idol") and I just felt the need to work on some color photos. Does that happen to you?

 

[DougK]

Actually, I go the other direction. I work with color most of the time and shoot B&W when I feel the need for a change.

 

[phototone]

My professional work is 100% color, so I do not get tired of b/w for my personal work. It is refreshing.

 

[ray_g]

Hmmm... I'm sure the urge will soon go away and I will start desaturating images 😉

 

[RubenBlaedel]

yep - mostley colour and some black and white for a change - the more colourfull things and the seasons get the more i feel like shooting black and white - summer commimg up i will o more black and white stuff - I usually always have bone camera or filmback loaded with black and white and one with colour - that is why GAS is good - having 3 Ms, 5TLRs, and a handfull of backs for Hasselblad I am never forced to choose between black and white.
I mainly shoot slow film - 100 ISO being fast, 50 ISO normal and thanks to now EFKE 25 ISO being slow - Ihate to shote colour negative films.

 

[Jarvis]

Nice pictures Ray, pity for this disturbing "haze" all over them ...

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

No, I don't get tired of black and white. I shoot B&W, C-41 and chromes...it keeps my Leica and my Franka happy.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Nice pics, Ray. Summaron?

 

[back alley]

colour?


joe

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Yes, colour phoutous 😉

 

[jan normandale]

Ray

B&W for street shooting where focus is on everyday events to place emphasis on the people and the setting. Colour for most landscapes and for things that have colours I want to show as part of the overall composition Then I often break those rules because I dont have a camera on me that has the 'right' film but I have to get the shot. Conclusion.... I'm not sure.

Jan

 

[sf]

tired of B&W? Never.

tired of B&W? Never.

I find that I notice more about the composition, texture, subject, when shooting black and white because it forces the brain to focus on those things rather than seeing all the colors.

I always like looking at black and white because I walk around all day seeing in color, and it's nice to see a little something different. Something that stresses the ignored details of the scene.

 

[Roman]

Nope, rather the opposite - I only use color for holiday & family snaps; whenever I try 'serious' stuff with color, I'm really disappointed and switch back to B&W...

Roman

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I hope not.

My favorite Digital camera "only" takes B&W.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/brianvsweeney/buds1BMP.JPG

Look! It's so old it has Virtual Sprockets!

Quite a surprise. I wrote my own raw convertor and found them in the image. The Kodak twain package leaves them out, and it also left out the outer 1% of the image area. Just like store processing, crop the negative.

 

[Pherdinand]

i think it depends alot on the person and the stuff we like to photograph.
It happened to me several times, that i had only black and white film w me and i missed a good(?) shot because of that. In the same time my colour photos look not too interesting most of the time. I can shoot a full roll of 36 frames and when I get to see the results, i feel like tossing the whole package.

An example for missing the shot due to black and white: the umbrella had rainbow colours and there was heavy rain. In black and white it's just a boring snapshot, but the scene live was amazing. Of course this does not mean I could have successfully captured it in colour...

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I use color film if I want to show you something and I use B&W film if I want to tell you something.

Wayne

 

[titrisol]

I just shoot color for the family album because my wife gets mad at me having a huge backlog of negatives I haven;t printed....
Hail the 1 hour photo labs!

 

[kiev4a]

Over the past 45 years probably 85 percent of the photos I have shot have been black and white. I still prefer it. Often color can distract the viewer from the real focus of a photograph. I hadn't shot much B & W for a long time but have been shooting it almost exclusively for the past serveral months because I can develop negs and scan them immediatley.

 

[peter_n]

Never. 🙂

 

[Honu-Hugger]

It's a mix for me -- maybe evenly split. I shot rodeos for three or four years exclusively in B&W -- it was a good experience and taught me to look at these events with a different eye. Traveling through the Southwest some of the natural colors (or colours) are just too stunning to ignore (Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, etc.).