Comments on: Key Ingredients for Black and White Images

By: nick

nick — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:04:35 +0000

But of course once you believe you have your ‘eye’ trained, the only way to go next is to get an old analogue camera and a roll of B&W film. With a red filter if doing landscapes.

Not only will the images look better, only having 36 shots will make you concentrate and not simply blast off shots!

By: Gaurav Hirlekar

Gaurav Hirlekar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:02:03 +0000

These were very useful tips. The one about the active skies is the one I am looking forward to trying out when I next get the opportunity.
The accompanying photos were very good too.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:03:47 +0000

Thanks for the tips! It reignited my desire to shoot in BW/RAW.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:41:20 +0000

Thank You. Now I can take photos at less sunny weather days :)

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:56:07 +0000

i love the photographs, they are really expressive, great work! the tips have also given me some great ideas to play on. nothing is better than black and white photography. try taking the photographs with black and white film compared to the digital, it creates a whole new world when thinking about contrast, lighting, and movement to create the final perfect photograph in the dark room. : )

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:50:00 +0000

Thanks for the summary of tips for B&W photography. I’ve been planning to experiment with B&W more, so these tips will certainly help me. It’s all about the light.

By: twilson1118

twilson1118 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:34:32 +0000

It’s better to do a color photo and convert in photoshop. esp when using the channel mixer in monochrome mode(the greyscale option is good for a newspaper, but bad for “fine art” prints).
Also if your going to do this a lot, its good to have a constant percent of red, green, and blue #’s so your photography tends to look less digital and more like the older but more respected darkroom shots.

By: courtney

courtney — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:02:48 +0000

I love the landscape photo..I am in photo 2 in school right now and my project is to make the sky move like that in my photo and those were some great tips: )

By: msu

msu — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:21:32 +0000

I usually take my photos in colour. Them, convert its to B&W. If you take your photos in B&W, you obtain just monocrome tonalities

By: pyko

pyko — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:43:38 +0000

hmm, I’ve read somewhere that you should take the photos in colour, and then convert to B&W in photoshop. Something about the camera can’t really capture all the details?

Correct me if I’m wrong please!