Learning With B/w Photography

It seems to that photography is a question of ones point of view. Personally I like Both black & white and colour either with a film or with a numerical camera. I often find that Black & white needs a greater depth of field. With colour one can avoid distraction from the main subject by using a wider aperture to reduce the field depth. Using colour at night can give a very black & white look to a picture without any post-production. I think the question is getting the picture you saw with your mind and your eyes.

I connect to B/W photography too. I feel it brings out the ethereal beauty of life.I treasure my parents wedding photos taken in B/W. We have a life size photo of my mother In B/W and she looks breathtaking. May be I lean towards B/W as it seems to me suggesting the grim and harsh realities of life. Whenever there is a disaster or tragedy it is often shown in B/W(in the media).

I have converted some color digital images to B&W and I like them. Way back I experimented with B&W film. I think of the images from the Masters like Adams or Weston and how I do like them. I can't put my finger on it but there really is something abut a good B&W image that just feels so right.

I LOVE black & white pictures! They are my favorite <3

Black and white photography to me can capture any mood very well...

with color, everything seems too distracting to tell what the photographer was trying to catpture, and the lighting is better all together.



This is a great story and I love how you said "All the details are crystal clear and the moments are frozen in time like fossils in amber"



Really makes you think about what people miss out on when something can be so simply captured in black and white.

Interesting concept. Maybe we relate to form, texture and light before we relate to color in the light.

Good observation RRK1, b/w cinematography to me is capable of more texture, value contrast, mood, set in contrast to motion and moving time, than color. Color is wonderful, no arguments, but color can be distracting especially when you add motion and time.



Funny, I have the impression I dream in color, but I can't say for sure..... interesting that you dream in b/w, so, you are just a surrealist somnambulist? lol.

Not just black and white photographs - depending upon the genre, black and white films are often superior because the mood is so much easier to catch than colour - the archetypes of good and evil shown in film. The lighting is a form of artistry that defies being captured in most colour shots. Don't get me wrong, colour films can be spectacular, but they are not usually as cerebral as the black and white picture. I suppose because I have always dreamed in black and white, black and white photographs and moving pictures induce in me a dream-like state far more easily than colour.

B/W pics are an art form almost lost due to the process of digital cameras, but there are many things that can be done in a photoshop sort of way that might meld the two together in creative ways.

Don't forget to wear a bib when drooling. lol

I have just gotten into photography in the laziest way possible with a 12 mm digital camera and have been having a blast! Hiking around, exploring, taking pictures and posting them on Facebook. But I have to tell you, I must have been color blind in some lifetime because B&W photos give me a sense of claustrophia; that plus the fact that I am a color-holic... well, you get the picture. When I am senile and sitting in an old folks home, I hope they give me one of those color wheel thingies where you can pull out the different colors but they all stay together in the center, you know? I bet I could look at colors all day and be perfectly content without a single thought in my head. Just drool and giggle! LOL!