Do you shoot B+W or Colour?

Do you shoot B+W or Colour?

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Color mostly...unless the image looks better in B&W. If I use film, it's color. Luckily digital allows me to change my mind.
 
It's almost all bw for me. I dabble here and there with color, I especially like 120 slide. But color never seems to have that special feeling for me. My fiance is totally opposite, she loves color...saturated, pastels, polaroid, etc...and thus tends to oogle at my color shots way more than my bw ones (a plus when I do shoot color) but I keep going back. In the future I want to do some blogging and so I may shoot digi color for convenience..then again i may just start developing my own since there's a neg scanner sitting right next to me as I type this.
 
For myself, all b&w and all film. For work, a mix, but predominately color with conversion as needed. If people didn't insist on color, I'd be happy doing 100 percent b&w film.
 
Black & White for film, and Color for digital. So, do you want me to count total shots and post the result, or pick which one I shoot more with a Rangefinder?
 
Now that I almost exclusively shoot digital I have the best of both worlds.

I shoot in colour.

But if the photo is suited to black and white I will convert during post processing. This has been my strategy now for some time because it provides maximum flexibility and the best result.

(Having said that I have two Panasonic cameras (the LX3 and the L1) both of which produce very nice black and white JPGs direct from the camera with options to select high contrast, low contrast etc.)

Mind you increasingly I find that I like to leave my shots with some colour - although I will often "doctor" the colour to some extent to get a result I like.
 
peterm1 said:
Now that I almost exclusively shoot digital I have the best of both worlds.

I shoot in colour.

But if the photo is suited to black and white I will convert during post processing. This has been my strategy now for some time because it provides maximum flexibility and the best result.
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+1 except when shooting MF then it's B+W always.
 
Both equally at present but once my current colour film store is depleted I think I will go to B&W full time. Colour is a wotsit to scan correctly and the cost of development is an inconvenience. B&W just looks better from film and I am happy to dev myself, although I am only just learning how.

Colour is saved for digital and my 7D.
 
I mainly shoot color now, Fuji 200.
A few years ago 100 TMax was the only film I would use.
But stopped developing myself, and color was cheaper to buy and get processed.
Every now and then I run a roll of Tri X through.
 
A year ago I would have said b&w. Now, the impact of a b&w shot isn't there, either in mine or someone else's. I look at them and wonder what the colors were. So, now it's almost entirely color, in both film and digital. It's a colorful world.
 
90% film 10% color
80% b&w 20% color

I don't prefer either when it comes to pictures made by other photographers, but at the moment my B&W shots turn out a lot better.
 
reality is in colour , black and white is a special effect . I do 90 % colour , but a a friend of mine sent me some black and white photos from a trip we made through Sicily in 1980 , and I just love the grain and tonality in those pictures ...
 
About 60/40 bw/colour. Film 135 95% and 120 5%.
Also the seasons here in scandinavia is to follow, 8months is winter and dark etc and time for bw film, 4months is about a little colour and time for colour film.
 
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I generally shoot black and white with film and really only dabbled in colour because I was interested in seeing how hard C41 was to process at home.

Digital is interesting because occasionally I'll shoot a scene with black and white in mind but realise when I see it on the computer screen later that to remove the colour from that particular image would be the wrong decision. Colour seldom works for me but when it does I can generally make that judgement ... I think!
 
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