Black & White Photography: The thread where it's inappropriate to post color.

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MrBlandAverage: Jul 2, 2003; GNNAAAARRRR

Ford LTD by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr

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Amtrak Cascades by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr

Cloud Gate by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr

# ¿ Jul 30, 2013 17:22

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 06:11

MrBlandAverage: Jul 2, 2003; GNNAAAARRRR

xcore posted:

The lines in this make me feel ill. The whole picture moves when I scroll

Good

meso posted:

You will find that it's often recognized as a genre. Here for example.

While I acknowledge that many people see B&W as merely a style of a photograph. I would certainly argue that it's a genre on it's own, primarily because of the approach used when one shoots with the intent of it being a black and white photograph. Should I be shooting the same subject, the way I shoot it would depend entirely on whether I was shooting it in black or white or colour.

using a Wikipedia category index as a source :lol:

I would shoot something differently if I were using slide film or color negative film - that doesn't mean they're different genres. It means the medium is different.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2013 16:35

MrBlandAverage: Jul 2, 2003; GNNAAAARRRR

Sparowe posted:

Oh look, more B&W photos, which were taken with them being converted to black and white in mind, which had me focus on different lighting and textures as opposed to if I were keeping them in colour.

Different things mean other things for different folks and all that. Can't we just have a nice thread where we post our black and white photographs, that isn't riddled with arguments about the content when there actually isn't anything to argue about?

You might have missed the part where the OP got mad about other people posting black and white pictures in his thread. You also seem to have missed the part where, you know, I posted black and white pictures.

meso posted:

I originally created this thread to be dedicated to all black and white photography, not another "Life with Photographs" thread.

What does this even mean, anyway?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2013 21:13

MrBlandAverage: Jul 2, 2003; GNNAAAARRRR

That definitely looks like it's from processing. Are you sure you used enough liquid? How did you agitate?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 20:08

MrBlandAverage: Jul 2, 2003; GNNAAAARRRR

Pellethead posted:

It's very hard to tell a story in 1/60 of a second and I rarely get it right. I'm very much an amateur but trying very hard to improve.

The best way to start improving would be to not use a telephoto[-equivalent] focal length from a distance.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 22:25

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