it, honestly a matter of intent and subject... some photos MUST be black
and white... and others MUST be color...plain and simple...
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posted on 20/1/2005 at 06:56 PM
Depends on if you are using real film or digital. Digital is easy. You just
change it on the camera or in photoshop.
Film is different. I can be harder at first. Exposures are different and
how much light you need is different. Hell.. it is just different. I'm
having to learn all over again since I started doing black and white.
Edited to add: I agree with Feral that some photos just look better in
black and white while others are better in color. That is another
difficulty with doing black and white. The things you photograph are going
to be different as well and you can't change it back to color if it doesn't
look right.
[Edited on 1/21/05 by EyeCandyRayce]
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I neglected the film angle as I have never really used film... I did for
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don't even think that way anymore
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posted on 20/1/2005 at 08:55 PM
I always figured that the composition of a black and white photo has to be
much better because you cannot hide behind the vividness of colour or light
effects so easily. It is verrry simple to take bad black and white. Not
that I am a photographer of any note, but I enjoy photos.
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posted on 21/1/2005 at 12:46 PM
I agree with Feral and Rayce. If your not useing digital "film," color
photos are a bitch to develop. Printing color photos is quite difficult
mainly because the dark-room has to be completely dark; not even a red
light can be on. Also the color film development takes a bit longer. Of
course this information comes from what I can remember from high school
photo class.
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posted on 21/1/2005 at 09:41 PM
A point and snap on a disposable camera is amongst the easiest of human
activities. I have seen countless people doing it and even done it myself.
This is not photography as such, certainly has very little artistic merit
most of the time but is still very simple and taking photos.
It is even simple to take bad black and white photos after lots of
preparation and composition. If it wasn't then I would not be able to do it
with such alarming regularity.
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it really isn't easy I took two quarters of it in college, and you really
have to look at things a totally different way to get it "just right". By
far, the best picture I ever took was of my graduation present, a car,
after it got totaled in a head on collision on my way to school. My
teacher was a psycho for attendence, and on the first day he said we better
have a good excuse and documentation to account for absences, so I snuck
into the photo lab and developed my car pictures and then wrote "how's this
for an out-sick note?" on the back and turned it in. I got an A and he
didn't dock me points for not being in class for two days
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posted on 23/1/2005 at 08:43 PM
i am not really a photography but i am on the yearbook team at school so
that almost counts. i think black and white is easier because i think in
lines and shape more than colours. it depends on the person in a way
because some people might have a better eye for colour and how to make the
best contrasts and flow where others have a better eye for angle, line, and
shape and not so good with colour. for colour you have to think about
shapes as well has colours - that was what i found hardest when i did a
colour page but i guess you get used to it if you take colour photos a lot.