Ripley is just beautifully shot

La Haine from the mid 90’s was a film that got me interested in black and white photography.

The movie Ripley inspired me to continue to photograph in black and white-The documentary of Weegee got me started down this road. The Ripley series is so stunning-I was gobsmacked! I seldom photographed in bnw, but have decided to do it more often. I enjoy watching your video and venturing into doing black and white street photography where you live.❤ I would recommend watching the documentary of Weegee the crime photographer who photographed New York City street scenes of murder and fires and such, super interesting.

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) - Joel Coen. Freaking incredible, I’ve watched it 20 times for inspiration.

Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders. A must see on so many levels!

I really like black and white, Fan Ho is one of the best photographers that sticks to black and white. I really like how it simplifies things but also adds another layer of complexity, it’s a really interesting duality. Awesome video as usual. Mank is a great black and white film I recommend checking out

Love your work and this channel. The Man Who Wasn't There by the Coen brothers with Billy Bob Thornton is a great black and white movie that I still take inspiration from today.

Enjoyed your venture into B&W. I think the colour versions of the 'guy with the rings' clearly demonstrates how colour can distract.

Pather Panchali is an utterly beautiful black and white film with incredible composition

One of my favorite B/W films 'The Uninvited' with Ray Milland. great cinematography and costumes by Edith Head

The Last Picture Show really affected me. The feel and mood were stellar...

Anton Corbijn's band portraits made me love high contrast B&W grit. Someone already mentioned his biopic Control but he also filmed his documentary in B&W - Squaring the Circle

If you have not watched the movie Roma, which was directed by Alfonso Cuarón, I cannot recommend it enough. Absolutely gorgeous and a wonderful film overall.

Love it! Black and white is my default for cloudy days

Yessss more black and white please and thank you!

Never thought I'd see the day! Really enjoyed the change - definitely a timeless vibe to these.

Very good black and white photos

Black and white is a great tool to teach you about light.

Coffee and Cigarettes is a great bnw movie Josh

The 360 spin 😂. So true.

For me, i realised the drama and beauty of b&w the first time i watched 'The Third Man' and the work of Robert Krasker. A great example of a movie that would have been ruined if made in colour.

City of life and death. A great but difficult watch about the rape of nanking, beautifully shot.

Great shots - appreciate the break from the B&W to show off the glory of Jammer’s outfit 🙌

so glad you finally took this trip ! BW has remained my vision since my childhood, so much so I can forget there are colors at times

Recommended films, I’d say classic noir and in particular Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil has wonderful contrasty black and white cinematography. Another stunning black and white film is La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini. The tones are wonderful to look at. Also there’s a wide shot in the film The Artist of the staircase in the well filmed Bradbury building in LA. That shot deserves to be mounted on a wall.

It always strikes me how many people say that black and white is perfect for overcast days. Personally, I rather much prefer shooting b/w with harsh sunlight to have more contrast. On overcast days you can play with colour contrast which is way nicer than the muddy grey soup of b/w images. And looking at your images, they work just because it is not really overcast - there is a lot of light in these streets!

I feel the same way and black and white photography has hardly ever been on my agenda therefore I must admit that I had some problems devoting myself to RIPLEY. After a few moments I was intrigued by the cinematography and finally completely overwhelmed by its visual aesthetic

Sometimes things work better in black and white but some look great in colour. Do what makes you happy

Down by law by Jim jarmusch , DOP is the master , Robby Muller

Watching Ridley inspired me to buy an slr camera and shoot black and white film. I love it

Really good images!❤

Love it! You should definitely do more B&W, Josh! Great shots :) Oppenheimer was another movie where I really appreciated the B&W scenes.

Breathless by Godard, 8 1/2 by Fellini, The 400 Blows by Truffaut are my go-to films to go back to for black and white. Also, La Haine is free on KZfaq in Hi-res! Great video, Josh.

Plenty of monos on TV Film4 if you need inspiration. I carry an original RX100 on high quality JPEG monochrome settings and it’s very easy to switch to colour if needed as a backup camera. The guy with his arse taken in hand was very funny, usually the other way round lol! Nice video and great images, thanks for sharing.

As a visually impaired photographer I'm leaning more into black and white as there are less distractions. For me, the absence of colour means I can focus more on the subject.

There’s a ‘Black and Chrome’ edition of Mad Max: Fury Road, which is superb. Nice change from the old teal and orange. I also tend to keep my EVF in BW even if I’m aiming to use colour from the RAW. Less distracting for composing.

The Coen's 2001 movie 'The Man Who Wasn't There' has amazing BW cinematography. Other movies: Cold War (2018), The Night of the Hunter (1955).

I like to shoot high contrast B&W with a GR. It is my go to B&W and I use images right out of the camera many times.

Awesome video. Highly recommend the 1995 french film "La Haine." Another one that really inspired me. I think you'd dig it!

Check out The Third Man if you haven't already seen it. An absolute classic. Woody Allen's Manhattan is fabulous, too. Gordon Willis' cinematography is sublime.

I recommend watching Control, a 2007 UK movie about Joy Division shot in B&W. Biopics these days have gotten so much more generic, it was cool to see that one being so good

Great video. There's definitely something about taking photos in black and white as opposed to converting photos in post. I've just loaded an analogue camera with some black and white film to carry along with my everyday digital camera. Film suggestion: The Third Man (1949) - film noir

Hey Josh! Good work. Check out Pawel Pawlikowski’s (Polish director) two recent stunningly shot films: “Ida” and “Cold War” (both shot by Lukasz Zal, although he shares credit on Ida with Ryszard Lenczewski). Or the grim but wonderful “The white ribbon” by Michael Haneke (cinematography by Christian Berger).

Recommended movies: Manhattan, Raging Bull, Roman Holiday, Roma, Godzilla Minus One (Monochrome Edition), La Dolce Vita

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” 03:57 is a banger. If not a banger, a banger-. Yes, the center could have used somebody in it. You couldn’t have controlled. The image is about the hands. You captured the man stretching. That is what caught your eye. You could have waited for someone to enter the center of your frame. Then you loose the gesture and the man on the right side of the frame with his hand extended. For my taste, you taking a step back or two would have helped with the juxtaposition but then you loose the gesture and the man on the right again. This was never going to be a perfect image. You couldn’t change the elements within the frame. You caught the best that was there in that very brief moment. Kudos. You might be a color snob. Your words. I’d suggest you have a color preference. Remember, in the 50’s & 60’s only B&W images were accepted for ‘serious’ images. Of course Ernst Haas & Saul Leiter proved the conventional norms wrong. I like Acros with the red filter. I love to crush my blacks. I also underexpose by ~1/2 stoop. That is the look I like. Your mileage may vary. A suggestion. Set your camera up so you are taking B&W jpegs and also shoot raw. Your EVF will show you B&W plus you also get color negatives. As much as I like Acros, I love Panasonic’s B&W L monochrome D which is in the G/GX9 plus full frame bodies. Very contrasty. In my opinion, the best B&W jpeg out there. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

oh and the third man is a top b+w film both in narrative and cinematography it will inspire your still photography

Anything by Alfred Hitchcock, especially one called The Lodger (it was shot in London in the 1920's) you can see him trying out techniques he's known for. Love your work Josh.

Every scene in Belfast could be a print, great film

I love that photo at the end with the mother and daughter embracing under that advert. Check out the move “Ivans Childhood” Its an Andres Tarkovsky film and it has gorgeous cinematography in a war setting.

Paper Moon - great cinematography with the most amazingly deep depth of field. They must’ve shot the whole movie through a pin-hole aperture.

Ripley is awesome in B&W!

Really like black and white always change in lightroom, but going to try shooting in black and white. Thought the cinematography in Ripley was amazing

Definitely best to have your viewfinder showing Black & White while you shoot….still worh editing in Lightroom, using contrast etc to emphasize shapes shadows etc. Two classic films The “longest day” john Wayne film about D Day in WW2 …..Also one of the best B/W films ever must be Orson Welles “the third man” …Totally agree by the way about “Ripley “ series on Netflix such care taken over the photography truly amazing in 2024 to do this…

I watched The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) recently, really impressed by the cinematography. Motivated me to try a bit more black and white!

You gotta watch the classic Italian black and white films like 8 1/2. You can even shoot the film they used. It's Ferrania P30!

Passing is another amazing black and white movie. Definite recommend it checking it out.

I actually flinched when the screen turned from B&W to bright orange. Most of the film Noir from the 1940s and fifties is well worth watching , not just for cinematography in mono but all the other parts that make a film great . Btw I do like your usually muted colours in the same way I prefer Westerns shot in colour. There's a time and a place for things, as my mom used to say. Also La Dolce Vita I have always read was shot on Farrania P30 , I've never seen that contradicted . Best wishes I really like your work, Jake E.

ida and others by Paweł Pawlikowski..........but your colour work is so good. Oh & Summer with Monika + other Bergman.

I love how BnW images feel that they are taking you into another world, especially when it's done by Trent Parke. I find that I can only shoot either colour or mono, I really struggle to do both. Regarding TV and Films, the old black and white movies are great to watch, especially films like The Maltese Falcon and the old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies!

Definitely see “The Third Man” (Orson Wells, director). Perhaps the most atmospheric black and white movie I’ve ever seen, and I’m a am of them! Plus a terrific story. Thanks for the video

Very nice work.❤❤❤

Pick any old Italian movie, Bicycle thieves, 8 1/2, Umberto D, Rocco and his brothers. You can't go wrong

If you ever want to get inspired to shoot some 6x6 120 film, watch The Lighthouse.

Rumble Fish from the early 80s is a beautifully lit b&w film. For a while after, I dreamed in b&w. 😮 Always loved b&w - it has a timeless quality.

Roma by Alfonso Cuaron, incredibly luminous black and white

Some b&w movies to consider: Schindler's List, Nebraska, Mank, Roma, The Lighthouse, Control, The Artist.

Curious about using the acros simulation as I’ve used it extensively, are you adjusting contrast in post? Or are you using custom settings in camera? Just wondering because I rarely get the contrast you are achieving here without adjusting in post. Great work by the way. As a suggestion for films, while not actually b&w, the colors are muted enough that I often see it in b&w through my eyes and that is Northfork by the Polish Brothers. It is simply a master craft of visual storytelling and beauty. Every shot is a masterpiece. I highly recommend it for any photographic inspiration.

Great video. I like to shoot in colour and then convert to black and white, but I seem to see a shot in black and white. Also, I like to shoot inferred and that gets converted to black and white. I put a video up on seven years of black and white; that's not every picture I've taken, just one or two from each year.

I love to shoot in black and white. It is certainly a very different discipline to colour photography. I always like to find subjects with good contrast. Agree that b&w works well on overcast days when you can play with the settings in your favourite software to add contrast - plus make use of a shallower dof for added contrast too. Personally, I don’t really shoot with a b&w preset and prefer just to see in colour. I’ve got used to being able to predict what could work as b&w. When I’ve used a b&w preset, I always find it a bit too distracting and harder to see the image on brighter sunny days - besides, film photographers don’t have that luxury and seem to do OK. Just the odd way I work and if seeing b&w in the viewfinder (or back screen) works for you, by all means stick to it.

I think Ripley cinematography was heavily influenced by the work of Bela Tarr. His films are amazing. Very long, very challenging and amazingly shot.

From the more recent black and white movies you have The Lighthouse, Ida, Control, Pi, The White Ribbon, The Artist, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Hard to Be a God… Contemporary Classics, Manhattan, Sin City, Rumble Fish, Raging Bull, Alphaville, La Jetée, The Elephant Man, Lolita, Wing of Desire, Eraserhead, The Addiction, The Battle of Algiers… Old Classics, The Seventh Seal, M, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood, Simon of the Desert, La passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Nosferatu, Metropolis… For an Italian mood, many of the movies of the Italian Neorealism, Fellini (La strada, Nights of Cabiria), Rosselini (Stroboli, Germany Year Zero), Pasolini (Il vangelo secondo Matteo, Uccellacci e uccellini) Michelangelo Antonioni (La notte, L'eclisse). Enjoy!

'Roma' from 2018. Alfonso Cuarón, director and cinematographer. Best Picture Oscar; it was on Netflix and in theaters. Beautiful.

i always think of b+w as the original photography (i'm a child of the sixties) and colour is the new fangled fancy dan photography and yes colour is brilliant but mono is the "truer" style for me personally

Embrace of the Serpent

Manhattan by Woody Allen. Undoubtedly the first time I took notice of B+W film making.

Great photos. some friends of mine who shoot bnw say they shoot in colour and then convert to bnw. is there any advantatge on that? thanks for the inspiring video

It doesn’t matter how much I try to shoot in colours I always go back to black and white.. I think it’s more forgiving

Un ascenseur pour l’échafaud and Night of the Hunter

Nice content as usual. I have a movie recommendation for you: “The Man Who Wasn’t There” (2001). It stars Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand, and it’s written and directed by the Coen brothers. Unfortunately, I can’t find it on the Apple Store in the Netherlands. Perhaps it’s available in the UK? Let me know what you think if you get a chance to watch it!

THE FOLLOWING!

Check out the movie 'Coffee and cigarettes' from 2003. Not a very street. But the simplicity is stunning.

Liked your new approach. Maybe you could do the video in colour so that we can see what you are shooting and how it looks in bw

Nice shots. Question: Is the rendition seen on the LCD screen also Acros? What I mean is is what you see is what you get?

B&W photos in general are great, but in my opinion you should try to shoot in high contrast mode. Keep on doing B&W shooting, it's always an interesting experience.

If you were a commercial photographer, I'd yell NO!!!! Your color work is so finely honed and signature. That is not easy in today's world. But as a content creator, sure. Why not? Cheers!

Love bw...strips back away the distraction and focuses the creator..love those snaps josh..28mm bw is soulful

Schlinder's list, my friend, cinematographer = Janusz Kaminski.

Try shooting 35mm film, black and white film takes on a whole new way to look at life

So you've actually selected b+w in camera ? There's always the option to shoot colour and convert - is there any benefit to select b+w in camera apart from being able to see what you're getting in real time ? I wouldn't have thought so Edit... Oh 6min30.

Who are you, polly maggoo by William Klein and Following by Christopher Nolan are two great black and white movies.

Classic B/W movie: "Der Himmel über Berlin" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lcCZm5egm7Swc5c.html

Being old school, I have to suggest The Third Man by Orson Welles. The movie itself is considered one of the best of all time (along with his other more famous movie Citizen Kane). But the photography is absolutely bad a@@. I didn't want to do much BW until I saw this movie. Much like you and Belfast. Now, with digital, I do Raw plus Monochrome Jpegs. Glad to see you come over and trying the "dark" side.

Great video. Imo there is a place for bw and for color. I love bw a lot but sometimes you need some color for the extra umph. But when I see e.g. a series of model photos and suddenly there is a bw one it make my heart beat quicker. But in the end: There is no right or wrong. Thanks for sharing

I like colour, and please don't get me wrong but for me colour is like all that hot spice in cooking to cover the lack of taste in the main ingredients. Black & White is raw and naked. Contrary ot popular belief, It is actually much more difficult doing good B&W photography. Your photograpohs were good.

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Welcome to the dark side

Ah. We're not sure. We see the scenes but are always looking for your signature colour. Experimenting is good; it's even necessary, but....

Interestingly for me, it seemed garish when you switched to colour.

Sin city

Honestly, I tend to identify you more with colour work. Black and white doesn't seem to do your sense of wittiness and Britishness enough justice. Or perhaps you just haven't yet found your voice in black and white, (since there are photographers like Richard Kalvar, who has a similar, distinct witty style but in B&W)