Thank you Peter for your knowledge and for sharing!

Back in the late 40s or early 50s, my Dad took a B&W portrait of my Mom that was reminiscent of the B&W glamorous head shots of famous Hollywood actresses. Mom looks absolutely stunning in that shot-- dark hair, white hat, elegant expression. The irony is that she never thought of herself as the beautiful one among her sisters. That head shot proves otherwise. B&W rocks, for stills and for movies--Casablanca, anyone?

I love B&W and shoot primarily with it in mind. I also shoot with vintage glass, which I think they render very beautifully.

Din passion för fotografering genomsyrar allt du gör och du är en inspirationskälla, både för mig och många andra ! keep up the good work ! kollar alltid på dina videor !

Dear Peter, B & W is the real art of Photography. With my Olympus OM-4 ti I have shot few pieces of Art using Spot Metering, Hi Light and Shadow Buttons, mainly for Portraits and Historical Architecture. B & W is the true world of three dimensions, shades and contrast.

Thank you very much , Peter... 👌👍👍🙏 Greetings... "SALUDOS... 👋🙋😃 "

I had been seeing several KZfaq videos a while back about “using one camera - one lens” for a month (or some period of time), but I had the idea instead of only shooting black and white for a month. It was a great exercise because I have always loved b&w photography.

Can’t wait to get started on the black and white assignment.

2/4/22 Good video, I shot a lot of black and white photos using the Zone System and got really good at knowing what my images would look like before processing. Here bracketing images can help save an image under hard lighting conditions, plus like your explanation of the use of filters differ from film to digital.

Black and white can make the ordinary un ordinary

As always Peter ,some very practical tips - I particularly like B and W for street and landscape shots and the impact that can be added with filters and judicious but not too strong processing. NIK has a good ranhge of applications to try .

Fantastic tips! I COMPLETELY forgot about using colored filters in BW photography! I have only done this for Film photography and I didn't even KNOW about the filters in Olympus cameras! FANTASTIC VIDEO!

As usual, very practical and informative. Thanks Peter.

Peter very interesting subject and a good tips for do it a good jobs. I like your hat :-)

Thank you Peter for some very useful tips!

I am going to try b&w during harsh summer light, thanks forthe tip!

Very nice Photography, thank for share my dear friend

Thank you for that, Peter. A few months ago I set my camera to B&W in square format. Whenever I used Bridge and ACR all went well. However, when I took any of them into Lightroom they were immediately converted to colour. I later realised what I'd forgotten. I'd set a preset for photos that were taken into LR! I still prefer ACR to LR so I didn't change the settings. I mainly use LR for a record of the photos but that's all. Now to get cracking on some more B&W.

Thank you, now I want to get back to my roots of education, where we did all our photos in B&W. Searching for roots is not a bad thing...!

I truly love B&W photography. Since there is no color to stimulate the brain, one must be truly creative in B&W in order to properly capture a stunning image. It's not that difficult once you get the hang of it, but it almost always requires some thought and possibly some manipulation before snapping the shutter. Even the most mundane objects can be beautiful in B&W whereas in color that same object would be quite uninteresting. And color filters, as you mentioned, are virtually a necessity in B&W. Excellent video, Peter.

Thanks Peter. Nice video. I never even thought about changing the Picture Mode to Monochrome when I was out taking pics for B&W. I learn something new with every video I watch.

Another great video. Many thanks!

Back in the eighties I was a little child but I already photographed. My big brother gave me a Soviet Zenit camera and we went out for walks all the time. I learned the basics of the exposure triangle there, with the help of meter I learned to nail it. It was fun to develop the images in the bathroom, I still smell the chemicals, I still feel the frustration of getting the film into the developing box in total darkness, great memories! We were even able to mount the camera on a nest of a hawk and to photograph with wired remote control 😀. I will have to dig in the old boxes, maybe I will find some images. It was all black and white of course and it was very enjoyable. Thanks for great tips, Peter.

Having shot HP5 for nearly 50 years (48 to be precise) I will continue to use it till I die or it is discontinued (whichever is earlier). Now the "good light" rule of golden hour/blue hour does not apply directly to BW photography because you can use contrasts to your advantage. Overcast days give nicer lower contrast pictures with more details, though. -- Totally agree with what you said about portraits, this is a very good reason to convert digital pictures to BW. Because I think they show more of the personality itself, and often are more lively,. -- Tip: Print out BW pictures with a laser printer on watercolour paper and then colour them with water colours -- great fun and everybody will be amazed about your artistic skills!

Excellent. B&W takes me back to back to my early years of photography and doing darkroom work. I’m still struggling with getting good, rich B&W prints from digital cameras.

I like black and white for architecture.

wow sounding much better peter great vid

Have taken some landscape and macro/closeup shots as bw. Nice explanation about filters in bw photography 👍🙂❄️

A good video to support the assignment. It's worth reminding people that what you see in the viewfinder or screen is the jpeg that will be produced so even if (like me) you really enjoy the post processing in Lightroom, you should ensure the settings are set to save your pics as raw+jpeg even when choosing mono as your mode of shooting. If you don't save both then you have no colour file to use in post and will be limited to the 8bit jpeg. Another useful tip is that when shooting in streets as it gets dark, it's worth playing with the colour temperature slider when you do your mono conversion. The shop lights will have a low colour temperature compared to the sky and you can use the colour temperature slider to balance the exposure between the different lights before fine tuning them with the colour sliders in the B&W module. This is very helpful in avoiding blown highlights in shop windows. This technique also helps when doing street portraits.

Nice video, nearly only in Black & White 😀

Very useful video, thanks

One of the hardest challenge for me is Black and White. Simply because I was born in the 90s where most of the photos that I see are color photos. I remember the only black and white photo that I took during 90s is portrait photo for formal use such as certificate.

Portraits, cities and mountains.

Funny... scrolling through your videos I was struck by the insight that if anyone would know 'Black and White', it'd be a Finn! So, yet another item for my lengthy list of reasons why I am sorry that I'll never visit Finland. Thanks for the video. All the best from a cabin in a swamp in a rain-forest in New Zealand.

VERY GOOD!

Thank you! Peter. Do you have a video showing how to photograph snow. Have a nice day.

I did a lot of Black & White Photography with film, both with 24x36 Cameras and 6x6 Cameras and some with 4"x5" and 5"x7". For outdoor Photography a yellow filter was nearly always mounted as standard, either a light yellow or a strong yellow filter, some times orange, red or green filter. I did Nature Photography, Landscape Photography, Street Photography, Architecture Photography, "Art" Photography, Portrait Photography, Macro Photography and more. At some point I tried Ansel Adams Zone System where I used 5 film magazines for Hasselblad, but that took much too long time to do, so I found that using the excellent Kodak TMAX 400 which I exposed as ASA/ISO 200 and developed in a thin solution very gently for a long time, it gave film negatives that both had very good contrast and at the same time very good and many grey tones, so I did not need to use the Zone System any more ! I used Ilford Multigrade paper and a DURST M605enlarger with color head. For digital I use Capture One which gives very good control for Black & White, it is easy to combine "filters" to give the contrast and grey tones that you like. It is much easier to do Black & White Photography with a digital Camera than with analog film and analog camera ! I do not use any filters on my Lenses for digital Photography.

Love B&W. Especially film. My rule of thumb. color digital, B&W film. First use the OLY set to monochrome, ISO to what ever film speed I have in the film camera, filter setting, A/P/S/M, aperture and shutter speed setting. with the 25mm lens take a B&W digital shot. Then use the NIKON D90 with the 50mm lens duplicating the settings and use film. I can then print the digital proof picture and get the look I want. Then I go to the dark room and make the silver print.

B&W and prime lenses have made me think about light, shadows and composition more. Currently i only have 1 zoom lens, rest of them are primes. Also i would say you kind of learn to use remote speed lights and reflectors more to your advantage in B&W while learning photography. I am total average amateur so i might be 100% wrong but this seems to work for me :) thanks for good vids.

I hope I get the opportunity because I really do like shooting B&W. I love the Dynamic B&W preset on Olympus. Hope to post the very few shots from this week and the previous week today or tomorrow for the 52 week challenge.

Thanks again Peter another clever interesting veiw from your knowledge, I have one question did you study at collage or University or are you self taught.

Nice beanie. 🤠

Olympus Pen-F creates amazing SOOC monochrome images. Color/Mono dial on Pen-F is amazingly flexible with filter colors and intensities. This autumn I shot both color/B&W of the same “Fall colors” scene using the Pen-F… the color image wasn’t always the best. 😉

Excellent

Hello Peter, ich began 60 years ago to take photos. The first camera was an "Agfa Synchro Box". And the film was called 120 or 125. Later I had a "Bencini Comet S" camera. The film was more modern. All pictures were B/W. Both cameras did not have exposure meters. We learnt how to judge the incoming light. And trhen sdjusted speed and aperture. It was a fantastic learning process. With the time, pictures got better and better. By the way > Do you think a video about B/W and color specific filters could be an interesting subject? Regards from Barcelona, Spain.

I use B&W quite often with architecture, particularly old buildings where texture comes into play. Btw is that an old Moskvitch at around 2:50? I drove one once many years ago - must be an interesting drive in a Finnish winter...

This interesting video made me think once again that b&w photography is like charcoal drawing for an artist. It's almost as if mastering it is a step necessary to becoming a complete photographer. In many ways it seems the purest form of photography. 🤔

Great video. Question: I did my own B&W recipe in my OM-D cameras. But never get my to see this recipe output when shooting RAW in B&W and loading the files into Adobe Camera Raw. I don't want to recreate my recipes whether it is B&W or colour. I just want to get it straight out of my camera the look and feel I did with my recipe. Why only OM Workspace keep the config out of the ORF RAW file and not Camera Raw ? I prefer using the latter software rather than OM Workspace. Is there a solution ? What would you advice ?

I struggle a lot wit B&W. I can take the occasional "good picture" but when I load a film in my cameras it is usually a disaster. I'm not able to "visualize" images contrast and filters in B&W with ease, but apparently back in the times, photographers were doing it all the time.

I don't really care about black and white. What I'm mainly interested in is where I can get a hat in black and yellow like you're wearing.

Hope that you are Ok, because looks that you lose colors on your face. Thanks for tips!

Thanks Peter, and I will be not able to do that with my camera i have now.

KOOL HAT PETER

In-camera adjustments change the JPEG, they do nothing for raw files. I use a "natural" profile whether I shoot for colour or mono.

Peter gives the (inadvertent) impression that in-camera or post-processing filter effects can achieve the same result as actual filters. This is not correct in many cases, not only for polarisers and UV but also for many colour filters. The red/green window contrast change cannot be done with post-processing for example.

Is it black and white, or is it really greyscale? Or is it monochrome?

There’s another trick that artists used for centuries: squeezing your eyes so you could hardly tell the colors but still can see the value of the subject.

I enjoyed your video. I agree with much of your presentation but I must say, at least on my computer, the videos with you and a snowy background were excessively contrasty. Only black and white, no shades of gray. Black and White is so tricky. In the modern world, it is valid- to me- only when color is absolutely irrelevant. So many subjects these days... flowers, costumes, scenes of nature, are done in b&w when they should not be. Life occurs in color. That's the way our eyes and brains see life. If the subject matter, and your perception thereof, see color as irrelevant and maybe even distracting then, OK, use monotone. I know very well that many people see the old ways as always better. Photography began as monotone because the then current methods provided nothing else, but that means perhaps no more than that it's obsolete, not better. Black and white is not the pure, essentially true and pure form of photography just because it was first. B&W has its place, but a minor one, and is valid from only a historical standpoint.