jmooney
Guy with a camera
we are heading to the Yucatan peninsula for a week's holiday. We will visit the colonial town of Valladolid and then spend several days in Tulum. I plan to bring two camera bodies one for B&W and the other for colour (mostly colour reversal). My wife thinks I'm crazy to bother with B&W (for this trip). She says Mexico as all about colour. I hope to prove her wrong. Can you point to good examples of B&W in tropical settings?
Edward Weston did ok in Mexico with only black and white.
charjohncarter
Veteran
Edward Weston did ok in Mexico with only black and white.
Very true, I had forgotten about that.
dan denmark
No Get Well cards please
in 1975 i travelled from San Antonio to Mexico City on the train. i went with a mate, we shared an old (relocated) Pullman "First Class" carriage and hung out the windows with our cameras the full trip down. now i wish i had taken more shots inside the careriage but the scenery and people along the way as we rumbled and chugged and stopped were fantastic. i was shooting mostly ektachrome in those days and are buried somewhere in a box. must dig them out and have a look... i wonder what that same journey would be like today...
-dd
-dd
JohnTF
Veteran
You forgot to mention the carnitos, best in the world plus the avocados, -- Am pretty sure you can buy film at the camera store on the square in Uruapan-- My friend Jorge is a Leica kind of guy, runs the Autos Vial, -- when shooting with Florencio, he feels people assume you have artistic intentions if you have expensive looking equipment in central Mexico, kind of opposite to the attitudes in the US.
Will try to post a couple, one color one B&W from your neck of the woods, they are in my gallery regardless.
Regards, John
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kxl
Social Documentary
Whoa! I have a nearly-identical image from Taxco, no doubt from the same vantage point -- corner table at the second level of a restaurant?
As for other Mexico B&W images, visit the Mexico gallery at my zenfolio site.
As for other Mexico B&W images, visit the Mexico gallery at my zenfolio site.
I go a couple of time a year to Mexico. I always take both a color film and B&W film. Guess which one I enjoy the most? Although Mexico is a very colorful country, I still love my B&Ws the most. I hope you have a great time I always have:
Not my best but it was fun in Taxco, GRO, Mexico (3/26/09).
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
To me, Latin America is about vibrant color.
Bill58
Native Texan
The "vibrant color" is red, blood. and a ton of it in Mexico. Given the news lately, I think I'd rather go to Bagdad for a photo vacation. With a US gov't. travel advisory, maybe even your life insurance wouldn't pay. But it's your life.........
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kshapero
South Florida Man
South Florida
Leighgion
Bovine Overseer
B&W film is useful wherever there's shadows, shapes and textures. Mexico's got those like everywhere else.
JohnTF
Veteran
How many tourists have you heard being bothered? Besides, with your lightning like reflexes from years of RF shooting, should be a breeze.
Check the headlines in major US cities these days.
It does pay to check things out, but same applies here.
I hear Domke is using Kevlar in their new cases, to protect Leicas from stray gun fire. ;-)
Regards, John
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totifoto
Well-known
I shot some b&w films in Spain last year, also shot some color too
A famous b&w shooter ,Rax, said to me once that if a picture can look good in color it can also look godd in b&w.....if not better
A famous b&w shooter ,Rax, said to me once that if a picture can look good in color it can also look godd in b&w.....if not better