Comments on: Why Black and White Photography? http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography Discover how to use your digital camera with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:30:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ashley http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-67983 Ashley Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:18:06 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-67983 I prefer shooting pictures and converting them to black and white. Black and white pictures are so beautiful to me. They are flawless. A color picture shows everything that a person sometimes wants to hide. Black and white is pure, soft and speaks in a way that color can't. I do enjoy black and white photography with a splash of color. I personally enjoy little baby girls, tucking a bright colorful orange or yellow flower behind their ear and bringing it to color while the rest of the photo i take down to just black and white. It turns out amazing. I prefer shooting pictures and converting them to black and white. Black and white pictures are so beautiful to me. They are flawless. A color picture shows everything that a person sometimes wants to hide. Black and white is pure, soft and speaks in a way that color can’t. I do enjoy black and white photography with a splash of color. I personally enjoy little baby girls, tucking a bright colorful orange or yellow flower behind their ear and bringing it to color while the rest of the photo i take down to just black and white. It turns out amazing.

]]> By: marie http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-35603 marie Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:52:18 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-35603 black & white and monochrome images add a dreamlike and timeless quality to them, its like walking around in another world. it leaves so much to the imagination- if the photo subject is a person with light coloured eyes, you have to imagine- are they green or blue? is the hair light red or blonde? black or brown? what shade of lipstick is that? what shade of green are those trees or how blue is that water? sepia-toned and antiqued images lend much of the same questions. and to me, that is the measure of a powerful photograph- to leave you guessing. black & white and monochrome images add a dreamlike and timeless quality to them, its like walking around in another world. it leaves so much to the imagination- if the photo subject is a person with light coloured eyes, you have to imagine- are they green or blue? is the hair light red or blonde? black or brown? what shade of lipstick is that? what shade of green are those trees or how blue is that water? sepia-toned and antiqued images lend much of the same questions. and to me, that is the measure of a powerful photograph- to leave you guessing.

]]> By: Mr Bach http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-24833 Mr Bach Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:27:31 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-24833 I shot mostly B&W when using film, and that's continued in the digital era. Perhaps the one overwhelming reason to shoot mono, is you don't have to worry about white balance. B&W can be enhanced with an IR filter, and the Minolta A1 allows me to change the contrast and color tone, with sepia being an all-time favorite. If you think B&W is boring, take a look at the photos of Ansel Adams. I shot mostly B&W when using film, and that’s continued in the digital era. Perhaps the one overwhelming reason to shoot mono, is you don’t have to worry about white balance.

B&W can be enhanced with an IR filter, and the Minolta A1 allows me to change the contrast and color tone, with sepia being an all-time favorite.

If you think B&W is boring, take a look at the photos of Ansel Adams.

]]> By: Phillip A Jones http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-18002 Phillip A Jones Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:04:09 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-18002 My 2 Zone Technique in Theory. *Based on the concept of visual change in negative exposure of one stop ( a factor 2x). This change in tone is referred to as a zone in Black and White photography. Most prints contain about 9 zones. The 18 % reflectance gray card responds to zone V (5). In the Munsell system of color notation, middle value of 5 has a reflectance of approximately 18 %. *I print all of my Black and White Photos in the range of zone 3 to zone 8, it give me 5 zones to Hand color in the final print. Only the neutral colors ( Blacks , Grays, and Whites), have no hue and zero chroma. *In my Prints I add color to predetermined points of interest in the fore ground , middle ground, and back ground. I will also add colors to the bottom, in the middle and on the top of each print. This enhances the third dimension and gives the print some what of a fourth dimension. The colors have a tendency to levitate and float. *I use only color film to create my Black and White Photo Art. Color films have three layers and Black and White Film have only two layers. I find that color films record the true mood of each scene as it really is. Reds are red, blues are blue, and greens are green. Black and white films records the tones and not the hues and the chroma of each scene as it exist. I use my color prints to aide in my color balancing process Hand tinting each black and white print. *I have a simple formula that I created, to achieve my color balance and color contrast of each final print. The foreground = A, middle = B, back = C. The bottom = 1, middle = 2, and top = 3. I can place my hues of color in one of the cubes to create unimaginable illusions of Grandeur. My 2 Zone Technique in Theory.
*Based on the concept of visual change in negative exposure of one stop ( a factor 2x). This change in tone is referred to as a zone in Black and White photography. Most prints contain about 9 zones. The 18 % reflectance gray card responds to zone V (5). In the Munsell system of color notation, middle value of 5 has a reflectance of approximately 18 %.
*I print all of my Black and White Photos in the range of zone 3 to zone 8, it give me 5 zones to Hand color in the final print. Only the neutral colors ( Blacks , Grays, and Whites), have no hue and zero chroma.
*In my Prints I add color to predetermined points of interest in the fore ground , middle ground, and back ground. I will also add colors to the bottom, in the middle and on the top of each print. This enhances the third dimension and gives the print some what of a fourth dimension. The colors have a tendency to levitate and float.
*I use only color film to create my Black and White Photo Art. Color films have three layers and Black and White Film have only two layers. I find that color films record the true mood of each scene as it really is. Reds are red, blues are blue, and greens are green.
Black and white films records the tones and not the hues and the chroma of each scene as it exist. I use my color prints to aide in my color balancing process Hand tinting each black and white print.
*I have a simple formula that I created, to achieve my color balance and color contrast of each final print. The foreground = A, middle = B, back = C. The bottom = 1, middle = 2, and top = 3. I can place my hues of color in one of the cubes to create unimaginable illusions of Grandeur.

]]> By: Phillip A Jones http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-18001 Phillip A Jones Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:01:29 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-18001 *I want to bring Hand Tinting back in the main stream. Since we have our computers and high tech soft ware we fail to realize that computer generated imagery or photos are not the same as in the past. The reason is, that the computer lacks Zone "A" and Zone "B". Its merely a copy. All computer generated photos or prints will oxidize or fade. The sole purpose of making Photographs are to record and document historical events. Archiving Photos that are computer generated defeats this goal. In museums you will only find Black and White Photos, they know that any other type of print won't last long enough to achieve their objective. *When we look back in the early 1800's we see images that were produced that still exist today. What if our Great masters used pixels to record there Art. They would have never dreamed of wasting there time and effort to gain fame by employing methods other than the Classical techniques to create their Art. When history is written, those who have negatives and Hand developed Prints will have works of Arts that will be priceless. *The Great masters such Van Goghs, Picasso's, Rembrandts, Cezanne's, Seraut's, El greco,s, Constables, Botticellis, Angelico's and Bounnarroti's would not exist today as we know them if they had used digital assisted soft ware to create their works of Art. I have over 50,000 images and over 90,000 negatives In my Photo Archives. Photo Art has been around in the main stream for quite some time. No one has change or improved on what George Eastman, Joeseph Niepce, Giovanni Battista, Thomas Wedgwood and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre attempted . The computer can never allow any one the freedom that gives you the ability to capture an image as on sees it. Ansel Adams was the last person to that gave us a new set of rules and technique. *I have develop a "2" Zone that takes his ideas and the other great Photographers of the past and improve how we see and reproduce our Photos. Don't miss out, if you can have the luck of buying a old Photo of the past, you will own tomorrows Picassos' Van Goghs' or even an Rembrandt. *The only worth while investment in todays Art Market will be a Hand Tinted Photograph. The other Great works of Art merely exchange owners and becomes more expensive in the process. *I want to bring Hand Tinting back in the main stream. Since we have our computers and high tech soft ware we fail to realize that computer generated imagery or photos are not the same as in the past. The reason is, that the computer lacks Zone “A” and Zone “B”. Its merely a copy. All computer generated photos or prints will oxidize or fade. The sole purpose of making Photographs are to record and document historical events. Archiving Photos that are computer generated defeats this goal. In museums you will only find Black and White Photos, they know that any other type of print won’t last long enough to achieve their objective.
*When we look back in the early 1800’s we see images that were produced that still exist today. What if our Great masters used pixels to record there Art. They would have never dreamed of wasting there time and effort to gain fame by employing methods other than the Classical techniques to create their Art. When history is written, those who have negatives and Hand developed Prints will have works of Arts that will be priceless.
*The Great masters such Van Goghs, Picasso’s, Rembrandts, Cezanne’s, Seraut’s, El greco,s, Constables, Botticellis, Angelico’s and Bounnarroti’s would not exist today as we know them if they had used digital assisted soft ware to create their works of Art. I have over 50,000 images and over 90,000 negatives In my Photo Archives.
Photo Art has been around in the main stream for quite some time. No one has change or improved on what George Eastman, Joeseph Niepce, Giovanni Battista, Thomas Wedgwood and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre attempted . The computer can never allow any one the freedom that gives you the ability to capture an image as on sees it. Ansel Adams was the last person to that gave us a new set of rules and technique.
*I have develop a “2″ Zone that takes his ideas and the other great Photographers of the past and improve how we see and reproduce our Photos.
Don’t miss out, if you can have the luck of buying a old Photo of the past, you will own tomorrows Picassos’ Van Goghs’ or even an Rembrandt.
*The only worth while investment in todays Art Market will be a Hand Tinted Photograph. The other Great works of Art merely exchange owners and becomes more expensive in the process.

]]> By: Adam http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-17995 Adam Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:25:41 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-17995 i realy enjoy black and white because it gives u a better feel and a mellow town to any picture. it is calming to look at at and is more appealing to the eye because with color its hard to focas on the main subject because there are brighter colors behind. i realy enjoy black and white because it gives u a better feel and a mellow town to any picture. it is calming to look at at and is more appealing to the eye because with color its hard to focas on the main subject because there are brighter colors behind.

]]> By: Phillip A jones http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-16473 Phillip A jones Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:55:59 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-16473 I specialize in Hand Tinting Black and White Photos the "Classic way", using my own 2 zone technique to create my Black and White Photo Art. My Photo Art is original and signed. Never computer aided in any way. I have been in the field over 25 years. My blog, http://my.opera.com/Phillip%20A%20Jones/blog/ Thanks Artfully yours Pacco J Pompei I specialize in Hand Tinting Black and White Photos the “Classic way”, using my own 2 zone technique to create my Black and White Photo Art. My Photo Art is original and signed. Never computer aided in any way. I have been in the field over 25 years. My blog, http://my.opera.com/Phillip%20A%20Jones/blog/
Thanks Artfully yours Pacco J Pompei

]]> By: Ernani Bezerra http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-8010 Ernani Bezerra Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:29:02 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-8010 I like both, but for portraits I like more BW. I really don´t know why. I guess, BW show beter the details of the skin, the eyes, the person itself. I like both, but for portraits I like more BW. I really don´t know why. I guess, BW show beter the details of the skin, the eyes, the person itself.

]]> By: Mary Ann http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-7065 Mary Ann Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:37:56 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-7065 shane thinks black and white photos are good because they show the realness in tone and shadows while color only works well on sunny days. He says black and white photos bring out the real person and the quality in the shots. shane thinks black and white photos are good because they show the realness in tone and shadows while color only works well on sunny days. He says black and white photos bring out the real person and the quality in the shots.

]]> By: mediaphile http://digital-photography-school.com/why-black-and-white-photography/comment-page-1#comment-4733 mediaphile Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:38:11 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/why-black-and-white-photography/#comment-4733 It should be noted that De-saturation is not Black and White Photography, and the results of both are strikingly dissimilar. It should be noted that De-saturation is not Black and White Photography, and the results of both are strikingly dissimilar.

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