jsrockit
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I shoot both, but consider myself a color photographer.
how do you feel about color photography these days?
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Mablo
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Sometimes during the dark days of winter I get an urge to shoot in colour. Then the spring comes around and I know I'll always be happy with just light and shadows. Black and white film is the one and only for me.
paulfish4570
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what is this "color" you speak of? 🙂
i shoot digital raw, almost always, and convert what i see in BW ...
i shoot digital raw, almost always, and convert what i see in BW ...
Spanik
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There is b&w film?
Andrea Taurisano
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Flowers and other beauties don't turn out too bad in B/W either..
rbsinto
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I shoot only colour slide and recently have started converting some shots to black and white if I think they look better that way.
mwoenv
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I always carry one camera loaded with color and one with b&w film and end up shooting about 1/3 color and 2/3 b&w. I do my own b&w and color film and print development.
Color is great for flowers, foliage, landscapes, colorful dress or scenes; after all, life is in color.
But b&w is for when color is not important and you don't want it to distract the eye away from the subject.
Color is great for flowers, foliage, landscapes, colorful dress or scenes; after all, life is in color.
But b&w is for when color is not important and you don't want it to distract the eye away from the subject.
lukitas
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For what I shoot, only rarely does colour add to the photograph, and often it is distracting.
Sometimes a photograph is æsthetically better in color. And sometimes, color provides essential information. But most of the time, Black&White goes to the essence of things.
My training was grounded in drawing and ink, branching into etching and sunni-e.
Maybe that accounts for it.
Sometimes a photograph is æsthetically better in color. And sometimes, color provides essential information. But most of the time, Black&White goes to the essence of things.
My training was grounded in drawing and ink, branching into etching and sunni-e.
Maybe that accounts for it.
Swift1
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I shoot color film about 95% of the time, and probably 75% of that is Kodak Ektar. I love color 🙂
Untitled by Colton Allen, on Flickr
Untitled by Colton Allen, on Flickr
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
very interesting to read so many different thoughts and all of them are "true". it was never a problem for me to choose b&w/color for specific shots, but using more digital lately add some confusion as you have a choice, always can fiddle in PP and the decision is no longer made before taking the picture.
rhl-oregon
Cameras Guitars Wonders
I have a little story I tell myself: I'm putting off color until later, late in life, when I can use it to write a goodbye note to life, to the beautiful illusions of beings and things lit by the actual sun. But occasionally I sneak in a little rehearsal.
Usually, it's with film--Ektar, Portra. It feels like having a craving for eye candy. It doesn't happen frequently, but is an intense and sweet indulgence.
Chris's rationale for digital color is way more sensible and disciplined. And that is the crux for me, the discipline of it. I'm not ready or willing to commit to that disciplne, still just imagining making time and space for it in 10 or 15 years--because I'm still learning how to see BW, from the digital EVF set to monochrome, of course, but also in the older way of mentally and emotionally converting colors to tones though the world is a riot, a clash, a cacophony of colors that can be abstracted to tones, lights, shadows, structures, patterns.
Then too I also struggle with how color seems to soften certain situational dynamics or political contradictions when BW underscores them. For me, the BW version of the Portra image below emphasized the defiance of a street hustler up against a wall like a police line-up showing the heights of suspects, whereas the soft warm pink and blue grays make the scene oddly tender.
That's my current excuse and semi-plan for accommodating color.
M4, ZM 50/2 + Exakta Varex IIa, 35/2.8 Flektogon
Usually, it's with film--Ektar, Portra. It feels like having a craving for eye candy. It doesn't happen frequently, but is an intense and sweet indulgence.
Chris's rationale for digital color is way more sensible and disciplined. And that is the crux for me, the discipline of it. I'm not ready or willing to commit to that disciplne, still just imagining making time and space for it in 10 or 15 years--because I'm still learning how to see BW, from the digital EVF set to monochrome, of course, but also in the older way of mentally and emotionally converting colors to tones though the world is a riot, a clash, a cacophony of colors that can be abstracted to tones, lights, shadows, structures, patterns.
Then too I also struggle with how color seems to soften certain situational dynamics or political contradictions when BW underscores them. For me, the BW version of the Portra image below emphasized the defiance of a street hustler up against a wall like a police line-up showing the heights of suspects, whereas the soft warm pink and blue grays make the scene oddly tender.
That's my current excuse and semi-plan for accommodating color.
M4, ZM 50/2 + Exakta Varex IIa, 35/2.8 Flektogon
wjlapier
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How do I feel about color film these days? Love it. Always did but even more now that I can develop it myself and scan and send prints to Walmart.
Leica M6 and Nikkor 35/2.5 on Fujifilm 200.
Fuji GS645 and Ektar.
Leica M6 and Nikkor 35/2.5 on Fujifilm 200.
Fuji GS645 and Ektar.
Finglas
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In truth I feel good about colour. (In Ireland we spell colour with a "u")
I nearly always use colour film - both print and slide.
I see in colour, it is all around me, even on the dull flat days.
I have used colour film all my life and continue to about 90% of the time. Colour (or color) is life & life is good. Colour film and I we get along grand.
all the best,
John
I nearly always use colour film - both print and slide.
I see in colour, it is all around me, even on the dull flat days.
I have used colour film all my life and continue to about 90% of the time. Colour (or color) is life & life is good. Colour film and I we get along grand.
all the best,
John
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