the changes we go through...

[thegman]

I tend to want whatever is not in my camera. I don't like the idea of converting colour shots to B&W though, so I just use what's loaded.

 

[porktaco]

same problem. still, i end up with a lot of B&W posted here.

 

[kossi008]

This is my problem, too: Too many options. Life was so much simpler with just one film camera.

I thought I also had it down to b/w film and color digital, but now I am also shooting color film again...

 

[robbeiflex]

I shoot almost 100% B&W for film now, and can honestly say I have not converted any digital files to B&W in recent memory. Selective and perhaps unconscious limiting of options I suppose. I like to keep things simple.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[Highway 61]

I hate digital BW. Of course, I never convert. That's a silly thing to do imo. So I shoot BW film and color in digital and that's it.

Same here, and it's the most simple option IMO. After all, back when digital didn't exist, we always carried two cameras, one loaded with black and white, one loaded with Kodachrome.

Randomly shooting with a digital and then decide whether it'll be a color or a black and white photograph long after having taken it does not make much sense.

 

[user237428934]

Digital photographers have brains?

(Sorry. Couldn't resist. You did say something about not being too serious...)

Cheers,

R.

You mean, my ex-wife told the truth about my brain 😱

 

[Murchu]

I like the flexibility and ability to have both colour & potentially b&w versions of the same image so easily at hand. Like you, I do not know why I find it so hard to just shoot b&w with my digital cameras, while I can easily walk out the door with a film camera and nothing but b&w film. I guess its human nature..

 

[back alley]

shot with camera set on b&w only...

 

[back alley]

 

[clayne]

Welcome to option overload. Lack of limits and lack of commitment is ultimately what undermines honest output.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

I don't see what is your problem. Do you like the images you produce? Than that's what matters. If not, then you have the same problem as any photographer: how to take better pictures, but that's a normal problem, we all have it. A different problem is if you need to sell your pictures and you have no clients but I highly doubt that, if this is the case, this is because you shot colour pictures instead of B/W. I thing that photography should give us pleasure not introduce unnecessary problems.

GLF

 

[froyd]

Joe-
I have the same problem, but for different reasons.

Changes in my lens assortment (more modern Zeiss glass) are driving me to do more and more color work, to the point I'm reluctant to load BW film for fear of missing color moments so it's Portra or Kodak Gold most of the time.

Still, on the Leica I have older lenses, perfect for BW, so that's the platform I pick for monocrhome work. But I have to push myself. Funny because I sued to be a 100% BW guy.

 

[icebear]

I went out a got an MM. Love it....No conversion necessary.

+1.........