Black And White Photography - [5 things why B&W photography will make you a BETTER photographer]

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Black And White Photography will make you a better photographer. I this video I give you 5 tips on why and how to set Olympus Monochrome settings.
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00:00 Black And White Photography
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@sstansm7f 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter! You’re right about mood.Old times when only BW photography was available it was required special technique to render joyful mood. Photographers used sunny weather and took photographs with the front or front-side sunlight. When overcast then almost always BW photographs bear low or neutral mood.

@janihonkala8154 3 жыл бұрын

B&W photography is nice also reason that you can use very high ISO, and it makes not bad and noisy photo!👍

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Very true!

@gustavsuszer4987 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks much Peter! Another great Video. Best Wishes, Gustav

@alanplatt888 3 жыл бұрын

Nicely presented video, loads of B&W pointers

@richardpriestley477 3 жыл бұрын

Peter - very helpful, practical and useful tips to follow for a monochrome excursion .!

@1717jbs 3 жыл бұрын

Great info Peter! Thanks.

@simon5665 3 жыл бұрын

To quote Michael Kenna, bw is like clay. You can shape it and do much more with it than color. You cant hint more and leave more to the imagination since we see in color. Totally agree with you color is distracting or overly emphasized like a sunset or sunrise.

@andrewcroxall1416 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this video on this subject, and the detail and showing how to, I this is why I choose you to, as my go to for the right information please keep doing this in all your videos that all other seam to not quite give you all the info and how to as you do

@69horatioh 3 жыл бұрын

Great points, Peter! Thx👍

@Reinavera73 2 жыл бұрын

Gracias Peter! Thanks Peter!

@robertgorden8066 3 жыл бұрын

Terrific presentation Peter. Kudos.

@VictorReynolds Жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great piece on black and white photography Peter. I just finished shooting black and white on my Pen E-P7.

@baobo67 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter. Getting back into photography with a strong interest in B & W. Very helpful. Have subscribed. Cheers.

@ForsgardPeter Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@gharrop1 3 жыл бұрын

Very clear and succinct video, with some really great supporting material...I like shooting black and white & regularly use the B/W settings on my Olympus penF or Ricoh gr3 so that I view the scene as you suggest, somehow B/W needs to tell a story or fascinate the eye with patterns, colour seems to “please” the eye or make you feel you are there. Being 70 I grew up with B/W and sometimes worry its use now makes things look older or historic....but looking at your examples definitely its definitely not the case....all very thought provoking...many thanks Peter.

@MrHasherd 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter, I always learn something from your videos.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad to hear it.

@mfreider 3 жыл бұрын

Peter, excellent points! Words of wise and experienced photographer. Thanks a lot! PS Your B&W shots are very interesting, love them! I think B&W should be a next challenge in your and Matti little "competitions" :)

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. A B&W challenge with Matti would be an interesting and good idea.

@louismanna5147 3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from southern Indiana USA! For so many years I had purchased 100ft rolls of b&w, (I had a home darkroom). I was looking through the SLR at everything in color. Of course, with b&w there was no color correction to worry about. With mirrorless digital I can look at it in b&w! There does seem to be an interest in b&w in more recent years, although the main preference is still color.

@marklaurendet1861 3 жыл бұрын

Nice B&W discussion. I find if the image has to much fine detail it is hard to convert if it has too many shades [gradients] in it as it can look too busy, so I try to make those images more contrasty to remove some of the detail. Images like old cars, motor bikes and people look great. Actually I liked your camera shot with the text on the LCD in B&W, thought it made a nice shot

@seamanjive 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent....byyyyy for now!

@wickie4801 3 жыл бұрын

A great bird image round about minute 5!!! Helpful tips from you to b/w. You have the talent to show the deeper secret or soul in a picture. B/W seems meditative. I by myself have made a challenge to make b/w stills for a whole month. That was a good experience to concentrate.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@50mmnikonainikkor55 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter. I just purchased a used omd em10 to use with all the vintage lenses I have for B&W photography and this short and informative video really helps.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! What kind of vintage lenses you have?

@50mmnikonainikkor55 3 жыл бұрын

@@ForsgardPeter Hi Peter, They are reasonably or low priced lenses that fortunately I also like a lot. I have the Auto Yashinon 50mm 1.7, oentacon 50mm 1.8 ,some 50mm and 45 mm mamiya sekors, , rikenon 5mm f2, a few nice Olympus om prime lenses and some ai and ai-s primes. All manual. I amJust a beginner photographer but I have always loved how photographers of before had so little tech yet took such great images.

@tobiasdavid3096 3 жыл бұрын

For me B/W was all about forms and shapes. But you’re right, it’s very much about shadows too. Nice video. I‘ve watched too many tech talks, this one was way more helpful to my fotography.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@clasijuls1 2 жыл бұрын

thank you Peter

@thomps91 3 жыл бұрын

You'll know that I shoot 95% of my images with a view to publish in B&W. I do make an occasional excursion into the world of colour. I think that this is due to growing up with FP4 and my own darkroom. When I bought my PEN-F, I fell in love with B&W again. I shoot in raw but have the dial on the front turned to mono so that I compose in B&W. I later convert my raw using Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro2. I have a couple of tips for the mono conversion. I'm assuming you're using Lightroom and have clicked the mono button at the top right of the tools on the right hand side. Firstly, use the colour temperature slider and see the effect it has on the image; especially for portraits it has a huge effect on the relative tone of the skin. Secondly, do use the various colour sliders to change the relative grey tonal range of each colour as this helps to create differential tone for colours that look the same when converted to B&W

@derekbarkham2314 3 жыл бұрын

Sam Thompson great advice , thank you.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Great advice Sam. Thank you.

@michaelajoseph6856 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video on B&W photography. Thank you. I’m less inspired when the weather is mostly cloudy here in Sweden but you explained beautifully how to look to all sources of light.

@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks! We have the same problem here in Finland. Not much sun.

@jimsjourney3926 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful thank you!

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks and happy it was helpful.

@1Tosya 3 жыл бұрын

Спасибо!

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@FilipSmeds 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@robertocarlosgarciagarcia4520 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@VinceSPonki Жыл бұрын

Thank you!...

@ForsgardPeter Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@boris.dupont Жыл бұрын

Great body of work, congratulations! And thanks for sharing! I'm impressed by the image quality you get with your Olympus gears. I use Fuji cameras and I don't know much about Olympus in the digital world but it looks excellent, though not knowing what camera you use and what is related to your obviously excellent skills and what has to do with your sensor. Very interesting anyway!

@ForsgardPeter Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@Coldgecko 3 жыл бұрын

Very good video. I learned something -- which is not overly easy with the tons of videos out there. Clearly its obvious observations -- but your presentation was good mixing actual images. Thanks.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Do you shoot a lot of B&W?

@Coldgecko 3 жыл бұрын

@@ForsgardPeter Not huge amount of BW. My web is www.phillipadeleon.com. That said, I just forced myself to learn. I just bought a Q2 Monochrom and want to push those skills within. Learning what to learn now. Thanks.

@robynaldridge8304 2 жыл бұрын

Peter, I never realised that you could shoot in colour and set your viewfinder to B&W. Now that's something else I'm going to have to sort out. Thank you.

@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын

Yes that is possible.

@JCC__BMX 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Peter. Is very interesting, the light, the shadows, no color distractions. In my Olympus 10 MK2, i adjust bw before the shoots, in this mode, i adjust the exposition, the shadows, etc. Excuse for my english. Thank you from Madrid.

@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@robertcudlipp3426 3 жыл бұрын

There are some excellent B and W photographers on your FB page. A number provides very useful tips or advice when asked. Have no doubt this video will be of great assistance also.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Yes there are. Very talented.

@robertcudlipp3426 3 жыл бұрын

I particularly had Sam Thompson in mind. He sets a very high standard.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

He is very talented.

@josegomez7422 Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel, new subscriber, greetings from California.

@ForsgardPeter Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@ML-rm3vk 3 жыл бұрын

hello from the u.s. great content in this video thank you.old analog guy from california.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@davidscullbonz Жыл бұрын

Back in the days of film (1970s to early 2000s) I shot B&W almost exclusively, a holdover from being a “combat” photographer in the US Army. To this day most of my photos (in RAW format ) can be processed as B&W, even with no planning, almost as if I see in grayscale. I still salute veterans too.

@valdiskrebs566 3 жыл бұрын

Nice B&W images! How about doing a Photo Feedback livestream for Monochrome photos in the near future???

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! I will do that.

@skfineshriber 3 жыл бұрын

I like all these tips. I also tend to think that BW is nice because the lack of color alone makes an image an abstract of reality.

@mortenthorpe 3 жыл бұрын

Yup... so keep your eyes tuned towards impending Fuji announcements - and you might see a medium-format pure black and white camera, no color filter arrays to detract from image quality

@tyronwilliam9417 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent speaking in general. I had to stop video at first 2 mins to hit the Like button right away. To me, i find it really hard to put out a good photo without preparing or planning, especially in B&W. Unlikely to Color Images, B&W requires 75% more of your creativeness in it. Color Images can easily tell a story behind it or to express themself , however B&W has its own ways to express themself. I've heard that Photography is all about controlling the Light, but controlling Shadow is the way i see it ( in B&W ).

@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

@jerry2357 3 жыл бұрын

Personally, I don’t go out planning to make black and white images. I walk around and look at what images are available, and go for black-and-white if either the image is naturally monochrome anyway (e.g. shooting against the light) or if the image is primarily about shape and form. For instance, a scene with a blue sky with fluffy white clouds can be made very dramatic by switching to black and white and setting the red filter. I have a PEN-F, and I like the ability to switch to black and white using the little dial on the front. It’s possible to change rapidly to black and white and see what the scene looks like in monochrome.

@L.Spencer 3 жыл бұрын

What video should I watch? Thanks, by the way, this was very useful.

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! What do yo mean by what video should I watch? Was there a missing link or something?

@nocommentnoname1111 3 жыл бұрын

Composition, composition, composition.

@lorenschwiderski 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Peter! Do you find an orange filter to be most helpful, or some other color / no filter? B&W is fine, but I usually gravitate back to color for most shooting, or simply shoot color and convert as need be. One of the reasons I hesitate to set the camera to B&W is for street shooting, where there are time when the color combination, matching, or complimentary colors are just so rich and pleasing, they would be gone in B&W. If I have time to switch back and forth, I may just do some B&W to see how it goes. I like a little punch, but find red filters, or too much dramatic rendering not to my taste, in most cases. In some shots, that extra punch is fine. In some cases, Sepia Tone, as a conversion seems pleasing. For a certain softness, or to give that photo an old-time glow, sepia tone is neat. Most times B&W or color seem a better option. There was a long running TV program in the USA called Gunsmoke, and the B&W years were great, as you focused on the story, acting, and things like night scenes were much better. In color the scenes turned sort of blueish or just off, but in B&W the night scenes are perfect. -Loren

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Yelloish green is good for skies.

@ruuddirks5565 3 жыл бұрын

Black & white and color are two different languages. Indeed you need to learn them first.

@Swaggerlot 3 жыл бұрын

Somber!

@OvidiuOptiK 3 жыл бұрын

Help, please! I accidentally disconnected the battery to m1x while updating the firmware from 1.0 to 1.3. The camera doesn't start at all now. What can I do? Thank you!

@ForsgardPeter 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds bad. I think the only way is to take it to Olympus repair.