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Originally Posted by milosh
Hello everyone,
I was wondering, did anyone of you ever do (or consider doing) only black & white photography (while you were starting out of course) in order to learn better?
This is my reasoning: if you look at elements of design and composition, you have lines, curves, shapes, forms, textures and colour.
I am thinking that if someone shoots only in B&W, that will force him to pay more attention to these other elements of composition. And later you can come back to shooting colour. Because we need to utilise all of them in our images.
It's like that saying: "Bad weather makes for good photographs.", because it forces us to pay more attention on these other elements.
This would of course require one to shoot B&W in camera.
I would just like to see your opinions on this.
Thanks
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Interesting idea. Why not go the distance and shoot with tri-x and a pentax k1000? Then not only do you have to pay attention to all the elements you mention, you only get one shot to get the exposure and composition right....and you won't know it until much after the photo is taken. Take it a step further and develop the film & prints yourself - lots of attention to detail in the darkroom. (Actually the way people are giving away 21/4 cameras, might want to do it in medium format then you get even less exposures per roll. It will teach you to be very selective when you push the shutter release.) And
bonus you can play the suffering artist card!