Re: Why B&W?

On Aug 31, 1:34 am, "Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR
mysoul.com.au> wrote:
Surfing through picture sharing sites like Flickr, PBase and Smugmug, I
can't help notice that a lot of people post what would otherwise be pretty
good photos in Black and White. Why do they do that? Do they think it
automatically make their work 'art'?

Don't know about you, but in 30 odd years of film and digital photography
I've never felt the urge to take a colour negative or capture and desaturate
it in an editor. It's like turning down the colour on your TV, or pulling
several spark-plug leads off a Ferrari!

Opinions?

Paul

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To me, every image is unique. When we photograph a scene we ask, what
is it about this scene that I am trying to say when I photograph it.
When we answer that question, sometimes it is the color we see and are
trying to show, sometimes it is the form and shapes, sometimes the
relationship between the two.

If the answer is form and shape, sometimes we emphasize that by making
a monochrome image.

So I do not shoot in monochrome with a digital camera, but sometimes
feel that the image best conveys the message when I print monochrome.

One of the great things about digital is that an image can be printed
either way. Sure, it WAS possible to make a monochrome print from a
color neg, but of the techniques available, they didn't all work that
great- some better than others. With digital I have more flexibility
on what the monochrome image looks like.

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