"Editing in Photography is like cooking" -well said Robin....the flavour should not be overpowering but subtle with just the right touch and hint of spice.

Only the devil would give a Robin video a thumbs down. This is one of my very few automatic thumbs up sites.

Off to the City of London, tomorrow will be on the roof of one of the big city banks, overlooking St Pauls and a big chunk of the London skyline, so work is letting me go for a run with my XF10, with predicted sunny conditions. The plan means I can also do St Pancras and Kings Cross stations, all in black and white, before returning to Euston. My XF10 will be set to Monchorme for the full day, get in! BTW I have had my first Jab, I will be wearing a mask and work is the reason that I am going, just in case anyone wants to give me grief :). Thank you Robbin for another excellent lesson!

I Like the salt & pepper analogy!

Great to see you again Robin as always great tip by a Master thanks you again Robin

Just found this one Robin. Exactly what I was looking for. Take care

Great video, Robin. I’m so happy that you haven’t allowed the changes which have occurred to stifle your personal creativity. I’m equally happy that you’re continuing with your video production. I will continue to support you as I’m sure many others will.

Black and white is often forgotten about. Theres as unique vibe that can only be achieved with black and white. Thanks Robin. Another great video!

Great video clip as always. I already have more than enough to do with colour on photos and video ha ha!!! But hey B&W is another option. Not enough hours in the day even though I am retired ha ha!!!

Been doing B & W for a while now and totally agree with what you say. I've often "overcooked" a good shot. I now go and make a cup of coffee when I've thought I've finished, and then realise what I need to do to reign it back again .

Your color work is always so strong (I've been following your work since your early blog days) I was not expecting this video to be as useful as it is. A lot of photographers have strength in color or in BW...but not both. Not so for you. The tips you offer, as a package, really cover everything that's uniquely critical in BW work...all the rest of the general photography body of knowledge still applies, but you don't waste time on that. This really is a mini course in BW photography for those who are new to it. And, it seems you are really settling into the XF10 as you spend more time with it. The sample photos you use to illustrate your teaching points are great. I'd love an XF10 update in a couple of months after you've really made using it second nature. Great video, thanks.

Good release today, Robin. In general, I prefer the use of B&W which is probably due to my photography journey starting with B&W film and developing and printing my own images in a darkroom. I've seen may of your colour images but haven't seen many of your mono images before. Thanks for sharing them.

Thank him for this advice. It is my personal favorite of all your videos I have seen. The black and white photos in this video were gorgeous.

This energy is awesome

You are so passionate about photography my friend

Great tips, will put to good use 👍Thx for sharing your expertise 🙏

Thanks Robin for your video!!!!!

I have no desire to photo black and white but your photos are SO INSPIRING!!

WOW That Shiny black brick texture is an amazing backdrop!

Great video as usual! I completely agree with your tips! I do exactly this! I love your comparison to cooking! Wonderful!

Thank you for tutorial! Great for me! I will try to play with filters

Thank you, Robin. I am starting to prefer B&W slowly, but more and more of my photographs end up just black and white. Thank for the tips and all your videos. I like your style.

Robin Very well done. So I shared your wisdom on Facebook and twitter. Hope this helps you out.

Some old school common sense combined with some brilliant insights. I'm gonna go play with my camera! Thanks again, Robin!

As a beginner I must admit I've never taken a b&w image. Ok Robin I'm on it. I have no clue if i can see in b&w! I'll start exploring the medium. Thanks Robin.

Thanks Robin, some good tips and ideas here. I use a Tiffen B&W viewing glass which is great for visualising the shot and checking highlight and shadow detail.

learn something!! Thank you for your TIPS!!

Love the background and t-shirt colouring. Background looks slick as.

Great video and images Robin

Thanks , Robin. As an Olympus user, I am “settled” in my gear, and seek to learn more about technique, so I appreciate today’s video. I like b/w photography very much, and have my “C” dial on my em5mk3 set for b/w photography. Agree wholeheartedly that one should set the viewer for b/w and not color when taking photos.

Great video, thanks for the tips! I'm happy to hear you say to only edit images mildly, an focus on shooting better images. I like this idea of improving photography skills rather than editing

Great, thanks a lot, dear Robin - let's go out to do crazy shots!

Great set of tips. I am slowly moving more and more into B&W.

Dudes so enthusiastic! I love it! Thanks man

Thanks for the good tips!

Hi Robin, I just finished today's BNW shoot and Post-processing then saw this new video. Rock-solid tips for newbies...and for BNW veterans. You got me thinking about camera selection...today I shot my Ricoh GR ii which is my BNW mainstay. I've also got an Olympus EM1 Mark II that I love for my Macro and Japan cultural shooting and I really want to put its superior sensor and programming to work for my BNW efforts. Maybe you could do a video on using the EM1 Mark II for serious BNW Photography!

Great pics and tips. Thank you.

Thanks for the tips Robin. Love the black and white work with the Fuji. I've been shooting in black and white more these days with my cameras. Here in the Northeastern US it's winter and we get some harsh light that gives great shadow work; you can even use the snow and overcast days to produce great images. And like others, I had my experiences with shooting, processing and printing black and white film. Thanks again Robin. All the best and be safe!

Thanks Robin for this video on a tricky aspect of photography. Even if I came black to film photography, I found some useful tips in your video 😁. The only additional advice that I can provide is to also focus on structures and textures to enhance the B&W power.

Thank you for your very good explanation. I'll just take pictures in black and white for a whole day and only see black and white.

Very good vlog and tips Robin 👍. Thank you for sharing.

This video made my day, thank you.

Very inspiring Robin - and a very nice “studio” setup👍

As an old B&W photographer who studied Ansel Adam's Zone system to learn to previsualise the tones of grey, I really appreciate Robin's insight into B&W photography in the digital age. The first time I set the viewfinder to monochrome I was happily amazed at how much it improved the process. My mind still makes the translation before I look in the viewfinder so the long established skill is not entirely obsolete. My eye can hunt out opportunities in B&W and that is a skill Robin alludes to in his staying alert to blacks and to the dramatic light at the beginning and end of the day. I would add that the feature on my Olympus cameras that reveal over and underexposed areas is like having a built in Zone system - you know precisely where the brightness range of the scene exceeds the capacity of the sensor to record it. I learned a lot from Robin's excellent presentation. I will admit, for example, to digitally overcooking B&W images in post.

Great tips!!

Thank you for this informative video and a pleasant introduction to your website. I liked your concepts and presentation style. Today, this part of Canada presents snowy sunshine scenes with a refreshing -6 C, so I'll set my Pentax K20D to monochrome for some riverscapes. Bon journee.

Nice one Robin, thanks for sharing and hey stay safe

Very good tips again. Thank you for sharing. And here is what I do. I set up a Custom Mode (M1mk2) or a Function button (M10mk2) with my B&W settings. I also set up the camera to save the images as JPG +RAW. By doing this, I can see the composition as B&W before shooting, camera records a B&W JPG and also a RAW of the image at the same time. I can use the JPG as it is recorded, or take it as a reference and then edit the RAW file.

Thanks Robin , Will try not to over edit my B/W shots in future , stay safe .

Love your energy. For someone who only shoots film - image mentality of shooting and editing isn't very helpful. Seeing in black and white isn't about color, it's about tonal range or brightness of an object. So a red shirt in Sunlight will be a lighter grey than the same red shirt in shadow - it will of course be a darker grey. A blue a red and a yellow shirt in sunlight at the same brightness will render essentially the same color grey in b&w. At least that's how I learned it.

fantastic!!!! thank you!...

Great tips. Thanks Robin.

Excellent!

A good idea is to shoot in B&W and color. I set the B&W to jpeg and color in raw. This way I am seeing B&W in the EVF. I don’t need to be able to visualize what the image would look like in my mind. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)

Great video man!

Thanks to your video, I have discovered that if I load a B&W picture control on to my Nikon D300s I can see in B&W in live view and shoot B&W raw images. Now I have something new to explore.

Please do more on B&W photography.

You can also search there is websites that provide sun position with a map overlay. You can them chase the shadows. Or possible see if you can get that sunset photo above the subway, train, building ect.

I recently discovered that if I set up my camera to shoot in black and white I actually can get better color shots as well. Better composition, less clutter, better leading lines, etc. generally speaking much cleaner photographs. Sometimes I also like to desaturate my color photos to the point where there is just a hint of just one color in it to the point where you almost have to guess if the color is really there or not. It's fun and can be very effective.

Very cool Tips. Great👍

It's great, but shooting on film you can't cheat like with digital photography. Tips for seeing in bnw without changing your screen and understanding tones would be much helpful.

Excellent video! The only thing l would add is, try to envisage how you want the final photograph to look before you take the shot. Have in your head the adjustments you want to make beforehand, this will make the actual post processing easier and quicker.

Brilliant thank you!

Good video, as always.

Sound suggestions . Learn to judge lighting and exposure off the back of your hand. Keep to one ISO and one shutter speed , adjusting apertures to suit . There is more latitude to play with in BW . As Robin points out, look for shapes and designs that draw attention . BW can be timeless , where as colour can on occasions date an image in a way BW does not. Thank Robin for the suggestions

since yesterday i watch....10? hours of your videos. Too instructive and well explained everything. You thought about writing a specific book with a lot of tips for olympus for example?

I love black & white photography. So much more expresive! By the way, at 6:09 I can see your arm's shadow in the picture (the one with the chair), was that intended or it's just an oversight?

Doing black and white is a good idea. I'll challenge myself and do a seven day black and white challenge ( I think this is enough for the beginning 😉)

Thank you for great tips! Any recommendations for settings b&w straight from the camera? I am shooting raw+jpg, I know it is much better to make b&w in post, but I would like to have pretty acceptable bw photos right from camera first. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. I experimented with b&w in 35mm years ago but never gave it a thought with a digital. I purchased an Olympus EM5 MII for an Alaska cruise that may never happen. The camera has bern siting a lot until now, recently taking a video of a Bald Eagle dining on a squirrel in a tree behind my house. (If I can share the YT link with you let me know.) How do you like your coffee?

I really enjoyed your presentation :)8

Hey Robin, applying colour filters in post, what software are you using? It's impressive. Thanks.

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1/27/21 I see that a lot of the comments are from those that shoot a lot Of black and white film and did some darkroom printing. I too went that route with lots of camera formats from 4x5 to 135mm shooting lots of B & W film. So seeing what my prints would look like was easy to do. it was harder for me to compose in color cause the thought process would need to change depending on the colors in the photo. I see that both have there place and now with computers and raw you can have the best of both worlds with post production software. On my Olympus OM-D I like to change the picture format to square and shoot B &W or Sepia to get all the benefits that make great photos.

Thank you Robin, good tip to set camera to see black and white when shooting. I often use grainy Film Effect on my Olympus and of course have RAW and JPG set. Yes agree about not over processing images, I have been guilty many times LOL! See so many others over processing, leads to artefacts and fringing and noise etc. Hope you keep safe and well and lets hope life will return to normal soon.

I'm a truck driver, a hobbyist and when i'm on the road or out and about i frame in my mind BW..

Rob, can you suggest us an idea of the non-expensive Stabiliser for Oly em1-mk2 + kit lens. A Gimbal i mean for broke people

I have also published a blog article sharing my experience shooting with the Fujifilm XF10 on the streets, and my take on using wide angle for street photography here: robinwong.blogspot.com/2021/01/street-photography-in-wide-angle-with.html

Good tips thank you. I am scared of black and white actually. It's like a small phobia not sure what the medical term is.

Any tips on how to tell a story with your photography?

Merci !

Did you pet that cat, Robin? Hmmmm? 😆

Good tips, but for landscapes photography I prefer colour except for minimalist shots

Film.

B&W is all about shapes, tones, textures, forms, highlights, shadows. Too often color is a distraction (especially in portraits) - HEY I'M RED LOOK AT ME, HEY I'M YELLOW LOOK AT ME, ETC ETC. I don't need to know the color of the shirt the subject was wearing; much more interesting is facial structure & expression, & body posture - that's what B&W excels at.