The Colourful World Of Black And White Photography

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@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. I'm sure I've missed out some great photographers here. Let me know who your favourite Black and White photographer is. Check out the video on Salgado here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5Oof72Fupy7e2w.html

@geoffmphotography9444 2 жыл бұрын

Possibly my favourite episode yet and one that I will come back to. Thanks for the intro to Vincent Peters. Years ago I made quite a study of George Hurrell, Clarence Bull etc and their use of light. I would be interested to hear your opinion on using 'old school' tungsten light today.

@ricardopalma4112 2 жыл бұрын

Sebastião is a "monster"! 👌👌

@ricardopalma4112 2 жыл бұрын

William Klein, Sebastião Salgado & Peter Lindbergh.

@BruceWalkerPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffmphotography9444 I love Vincent Peters and researched him to better understand. The short summary is "cinematic technique". Peters shoots stills in a cinematic setting complete with the kind of constant light that they must use (because of the motion aspect). He rents monstrous HMI fresnel lights (ARRI et al) and lights his sets and subjects that way. The way to to do that today is by using the latest LED COB lights. The newest ones (eg Aputure) rival HMI for light output and can be fitted with fresnels lenses, so you can get the old school feel of Hurrell and Peters himself with them. (My last studio shoot just before the pandemic sidelined me was with such lighting. My best work yet and I can't wait to get back to it.)

@BruceWalkerPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

Since you already covered one of my faves (Peters), I'll mention another fave who is less often thought of: Lillian Bassman. Her b&w work is unparalleled.

@Giles29 2 жыл бұрын

Since I started this hobby I have been envious of Sally Mann's eye. If I could learn to see half of what she does it would improve my photographs immensely.

@lensman5762 2 жыл бұрын

I am a B&W photographer at heart. Even today 80% of my landscape photography is done using B&W film up to 4X5. I do shoot digital, and in colour. For me one the surprising photographers of recent years, who is no longer with us, was Peter Lindbergh. A fashion photographer of the highest caliber, who was credited with inventing the 'supermodel ' , and shot digital but in B&W. His images and videos are simply stunning.

@stevenmuncy491 2 жыл бұрын

You can light for B&W in ways that color will just not tolerate. Great discussion!

@johnclay7644 Жыл бұрын

informative 15mins on classic mono.

@tgifrijay 2 жыл бұрын

Black and white photos always have a sense of elegance to me...regardless of subject.

@TheUbbm 2 жыл бұрын

Coincidentally a photo exhibition Shades of Gray is on this month at Albuquerque’s Expo NM.

@johnmitchell6919 2 жыл бұрын

Since getting back into photography 18 months ago having acquired my first digital camera, I have largely been focussed on colour marvelling at the capabilities of the new tech. For the first time last week, I had the opportunity of taking stills during a corporate video being shot at my work. I used the monochrome setting on my mirrorless camera for jpegs while also shooting raw. The B&W images of people were so much more impactful. Thanks for this video Alex. I am definitely going to spend some time reviving my love for the medium.

@fototyz 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting as usual…… I love the cat in the background! 😂

@ericlarson6180 2 жыл бұрын

When you started this video I thought you have to highlight Salgado. I was delighted to see you end on him. I couldn’t agree with you more!

@rst33079 2 жыл бұрын

I love the b&w pictures of pedro luis raota

@jonaskrainbring487 2 жыл бұрын

When you were speaking about black & white landscape I was immediately thinking of Robert Adams images of deforestation in Oregon. They are heartbreaking and some of the most emotional images I have ever seen.

@alanburton7426 2 жыл бұрын

There's a timelessness to b&w. I've noticed that facial expressions and emotions seem to be intensified in b&w; without colour to distract the viewer the eye seems to go straight to the subject's face. I love Dotan Saguy's 'street' work. Alan Schaller and Valerie Jardin are a close second.

@FlosBlog 2 жыл бұрын

I always have my evf in black and white mode - even if I convert the images to color later. It’s just such a great help for composition

@nickt6965 2 жыл бұрын

I have found great inspiration from Fan Ho, a Chinese photographer from Hong Kong His work is mainly monochrome as he captures Hong Kong rebuilding after WWII He also wasn't afraid to experiment in the darkroom, I think he would have enjoyed using digital cameras and Photoshop

@ruththomas9488 2 жыл бұрын

A favorite of mine is B & W pics.

@chriskelly6574 Жыл бұрын

After sitting through a few propagation of light lectures I have come to harbor a similar attitude to color photography as I do to pop music; bored to tears. Oh there is no shortage of good, smart and provocative uses of frequency and, much of it invokes an emotional reaction in me but, at large I become bored quickly. I am fascinated, mind you, how light has memory of and expresses the textures it has just bounced off of. Regardless the image, you experience black and white in an almost tactile way. It lets your eyes pretend to be the fingers of a blind person, probing and feeling your way through the image. It's a kind of magic.

@RS-Amsterdam 2 жыл бұрын

Color captures the person, B/W captures the soul. B/W is timeless Did some research on this matter just a month ago. Send 2 photos of a model, one portrait, one on a sofa, no nude, a coloured and a B/W version, to a group of people, aged 20-75, men and women. 75% preferred the B/W versions over the coloured ones. Give them a choice and even the young ones go for B/W.

@tonyhayes9827 2 жыл бұрын

The old cliche that black and white photographs the soul has some legs to it I think. Colour screams reality. Black and white, speaks quietly and we need to stop making our own noise to hear it. Like an icon. What is it? Sally Mann's very `other worldly' and so too is Geoff Spencer in a different way, Michael Kenna, Lee Acaster etc. etc. there's many. Another great discussion, well done sir.

@erichstocker8358 2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100% with your ranking of Salgado

@Mike_Stokes 2 жыл бұрын

A Black and White landscape photographer that I fairly recently came across and really like is Michael Schlegel! He’s definitely worth looking into for anyone that is interested. I’d say even if you don’t like Black and White you should still take a look.

@lloydbligh5601 Жыл бұрын

To me B&W photos seem to preserve the subject more than colour photos. In viewing them you have a more relaxed state where as coloured one there is a more active presence. B&W photos are more like Art, I love it.

@brian_phillip 2 жыл бұрын

Just watched "The salt of the earth" and I completely agree with you on Delgado. This is probably the best documentary I have ever seen. So moving and touching and you really feel his love for people. His images is so powerful. If one like Delgado, Jan Grarup is highly recommended.

@richardmurphy4648 2 жыл бұрын

As I have said before I watch a lot of Peter Coulson, as well as TPE, so this comment is Peter via me... in colour images [and life] we see colour first - yellow car, blue raincoat etc.. With black and white we see the subject. I have reflected on this a lot, I agree with his analysis.

@erichstocker8358 2 жыл бұрын

I agree with all you said. I am not a real fan of some of Sally Mann’s work but the landscape work really speaks to me. I also love Michael Kenna.

@barryobrien1890 2 жыл бұрын

B&W is surealestic and creative art form as none of us can actually see in black and white. Night is the closest we get.

@MrJbrown402 2 жыл бұрын

Nice way to wrap up the year. One of KZfaq’s best expression of BW photography. Thank you.

@jonnyonthespa5153 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Alex, I really enjoyed your video on Vivian Maier and I agreed with a lot of your points. In this day and age more than ever I believe it’s a good idea to analyze why we like or dislike something. We get bombarded from all sides with rapid fire media and I think we get caught flip flopping between convictions and ideologies more than we would like to admit. Bravo for bringing attention to this! I really enjoy Vivian’s work but I am going to review my conviction with this new lens (😜). You’re channel along with Sean Tucker and Peter Coulson round out my top three photography goto channels. I will be supporting you. Thank you for your consistently amazing offerings!

@peterhuskinson4111 7 ай бұрын

Great video, as always. Loved your black cat hiding on the sofa!

@ThePhotographicEye 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :D Poe says thank you too!

@jcam783 2 жыл бұрын

What a great episode !

@cjsamtab7 Жыл бұрын

Black and White, is for when aspiring photographers attains a certain level of enlightenment in the techniques of fully understood, Triangle of Exposure and a little more - putting FEEL into every shot limited within the boundaries of Black to White and every shade in between.

@weisskm 2 жыл бұрын

What a great video. You really nailed this one. The images are wonderful and your commentary is enriching. Thanks.

@dianasanner8141 2 жыл бұрын

Love the classic look of those b&w portraits. Like an old classic movie.

@richardsimms251 Жыл бұрын

Very very good discussion

@jimwlouavl 2 жыл бұрын

I love the concept of the colourful world of b&w. For me, photography is writing with light, using elements like composition, texture, line, shape, pattern, tone, and color as the vocabulary. Some stories are best told with color; for some, color distracts.

@marksieving7925 Жыл бұрын

There's a 2014 documentary about Sebastião Salgado, "The Salt of the Earth" directed by Wim Wender and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film covers Salgado's career as a photographer and a campaigner for human rights and the environment.

@RokPodaro 2 жыл бұрын

I really like your videos and cat in the background. :)

@mitymous1 2 жыл бұрын

My first love was black and white photography; it's great to have words put to some of my reasons for that love. And as always, thanks for the horizon-broadening of some new photographers to check out.

@EdwardKilner 2 жыл бұрын

You have thought about photography and photographers much more than I have. You have an intensity in your narration that I could never have. Your choice of example photos is superb, and your choice of lady subjects is rather winning. Black and white has never been my thing, but with our nearly flawless equipment with dynamic range, metering choices, and magical post-processing, I think black and white might well be worth making into 2022’s featured project. Thanks for this video.

@johnscratchley3288 2 жыл бұрын

Of late I have been shooting in black and white. This is where my interest lies in both the landscape and the street. I seem to be able to put so much more into a b/w print, more feeling, more tone, contrast and texture. For me this is a more powerful way to get my feeling and my message across to the viewer when i am in the frame. Great video.

@tommorgan3125 2 жыл бұрын

Nice of you to wear a zone 5 jumper for your black and white video!!

@clintwoosley9512 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again. Your work is is inspiring.

@mikecothran7912 2 жыл бұрын

I am just starting out in digital with my iPhone only before invest in expensive camera equipment. So far I am enjoying some of what I have captured. I tend to lean more in favor of the black and white images. To me black and white images when printed and framed look a bit more classy and stand out more than the color photos I take. Personally I like to compare a black and white white vs color image to watching a tv show vs listening to an old radio show broadcast, in both cases you get the same story but with the radio program ( black and white) you get to fill in in your minds eye what you can’t physically see (color) you get to use your minds eye more to fill in what you can’t see. And I think that’s much more interesting. Hope that made since. Thank for your videos they give me a lot to think about.

@andersblomster 2 жыл бұрын

Again a very poweful video from you. So much insight, and so many great examples. Some familiar and some new. I think this is KZfaq at it’s best. Much appreciated.

@neillynchehaun7082 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. They're like a video magazine. Always interesting topics and smart points of view.

@MrMWhitham 2 жыл бұрын

Happy Christmas Thanks for adding little pools of light to this last year. Your channel has been a great source inspiration and enjoyment. May it continue into a Happy New Year.

@kevinhanley3023 2 жыл бұрын

Both low and high key B&W portraits are favorites of mine. Sometimes color works if not heavily saturated, but low and high key images don't seem to need color as much.

@globerovers 2 жыл бұрын

I love all your videos so please keep going. Your videos make my day!!! Baie dankie!

@chrisloomis1489 2 жыл бұрын

Even working with my SONEY mirrorless I am using Zebra and M mount lenses. Many times shooting find myself shooting then converting files into B/W or into a form of Sepia tone. The lenses of old responded to film and monochrome so beautifully. This is a wonderful video , full of appreciation and knowledge of the vision of Artists, thank you !

@wespettus7343 2 жыл бұрын

There is a time for color, but I do love a good BnW photo!

@cliveeariss880 2 жыл бұрын

The mood and use of different shutter speeds in mono, is very powerful and moody, but at the same time a lesson to be different, and explore, the camera, and your inner self, great video Alex, as always.

@RichardAnnable 2 жыл бұрын

This, to me, is one of the most impactful videos you have done Alex and I thank you for it. For a long time I have wanted to shoot ONLY black and white portraits. I no longer photograph full time, thanks COVID,, and have a job I enjoy meaning I can be more select about what clients I take on. I think moving forward that I want to focus on black and white portraits. Will I lose work? Almost definitely. Will the clients I photograph appreciate my work more? Almost certainly. Thank you again for your work. I’m going to watch the video again.

@EdHelwig 2 жыл бұрын

I had the same feeling the first time I was introduced to Gordon Park's work during a photography class at Stanford. Thanks for doing this topic!

@lbotha6074 2 жыл бұрын

So inspirational. Thanks.

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@eyedears Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your inspirational videos Alex. Last year I took courage and did some street photography along the Southbank in London. Your video here inspired my to take 38 of my pictures, convert them to black and white, create some music and put them in a new video which I posted on my Eyedears KZfaq channel yesterday. I really enjoyed the overall creative process, although I continue to work on improving my creative/photographic skills! Thanks again for your inspiring videos Alex.

@ibp2007 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Really enjoyed. 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

@richardowen4558 2 жыл бұрын

I love Salgado's work! I also cut my teeth on Ansel Adams (still alive when I first started) and still have his book series (The Camera, The Negative, The Print). But it was the subject matter of photojournalism/documentary photography that was my inspiration. I like how the absence of color helps drive the eye to see the emotions of the subjects in the image. I do need to look at the work of today's b&w pj/documentary photographers (like John Free who is still shooting film on the street) to see where they have gone. I was lucky enough to spend a decade as a newspaper photographer and it was one of the most fulfilling jobs I ever had.

@Danman4u2 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic and insightful explanations; I am going through a self-imposed black and white period, and this is illuminating.

@arcanics1971 2 жыл бұрын

I do love monochrome images. I have found though that rather than simply making an image black and white in post, a better result is achieved if you intend to take black and white. In my case, I shoot in raw so I do end up changing it in post, but I set my camera to show me black and white- choosing to do so beforehand. That may not work for everyone, but it means your balances are generally better and so the end result is more striking. All my favourite own photos are black and white (OK, almost all.) Much as I do love colour and playing with it, there's something altogether more pleasing about monochrome images to my eye.

@Mike_Stokes 2 жыл бұрын

I’m the exact same way. Yea I like color images, but black and white is where it’s at for me! I get some much more pleasure and feel so much more connected with an image in black and white. I take the vast majority of my shots with the intention of it being a black and white.

@brizzle3903 Жыл бұрын

I fully agree! I love shooting B&W portraits especially when the models I work with show up without an ounce of makeup it just makes for a fantastic session

@threnodyeve 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you might have a form on Synesthesia with being able to taste images. Thanks for explaining how I feel about B&W photography so well!

@davehandelman2832 2 жыл бұрын

What i about shooting in bnw is focusing on composition and light. You don't need to worry about adjusting the entire color gamut. It's a much more Zen activity.

@chrispatmore8944 2 жыл бұрын

As a music photographer, some of my favourite photographers come from that field and work almost exclusively in black and white. Of course the late Jim Marshall is there, but also Norman Seeff, whose high contrast portraits are instantly recognisable. The same with Anton Corbijn and Albert Watson. Jane Bown's portraits for The Observer were always superb. There is certainly no shortage of contemporary photographers still shooting in B&W, across most genres. Even though I mainly shoot digital, which gives the option to choose post shoot, I still take my OM1 loaded with B&W film to gigs to capture purely monochrome photos, especially when the lights go red.

@leshall Жыл бұрын

Love Seeff, I was very influenced by him whilst at art school. Even today I try and recreate his 'look' using digital technology, but J haven't quite got it yet.

@Honeychild5555 Жыл бұрын

Discovered Vivien Maier, amazing that her photos from a by gone era were rescued from anonymity by a young man who saw the awesomeness of her work, I wont say much more take a look 👍😊

@rohitvermaphotography 2 жыл бұрын

I love your content and for the first time, your videos have given me a ‘hinge’ which is not technical, but more emotional to find my own voice. #BnW photos indeed have a more compelling story somehow, but we are so drawn to the obvious, in color that we never really experiment with the potential of BnW. In 2022, I’ve made it my personal project to only shoot in BnW and a lot of that inspiration comes from your videos and great work of the other photographers you portray. In short what I really want to say is, thank you.

@buyaport 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@MarcusAhmadPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

Great presentation/lecture, it's rare to find something which such depth and resonance that talks about photography outside of universities these days - slight caveat I am a Senior Lecturer in photography!!

@davidskinner274 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative. You should check out Len Metcalf, one of Ausralia's best b&w exponants. Cheers

@ShaneBaker 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex. I agree that colour can be a distraction. I'm glad you mentioned Sebastião Salgado. His monochrome work is breathtaking.

@Kim_Miller 2 жыл бұрын

Salgado is mentioned at the end. The pics of the swarm of people in the Brazilian gold mine are his work.

@timjoinson7232 2 жыл бұрын

I agree that black and white gives a different view and allows tge photographer to guide the viewers eye to texture and form that would not be apparent in a colour image. I have always loked Karl Plika's photographs of Prague. They are so atmospheric.

@valdiskrebs566 2 жыл бұрын

This Autumn I shot both color and black&white (w/red filter) during the autumn colors season. Back home on the computer screen, I was surprised how many of the monochromes I preferred over their color twin.

@marcogiai-coletti354 2 жыл бұрын

B&W is just the best. Good video.

@davecarrera 2 жыл бұрын

I regularly have two Canon AL-1's each with different films. Currently for todays photo walk I have Kodak Ultra 400 and Ilford XP2 400. For me a "real" b&w negative just feels better than a digitally adjusted. But that might be me and my lack of PS skills. I wish you well and a Happy Christmas.

@alwaleeed 2 жыл бұрын

I love it “they are more colorful because they don’t have colors” 😍

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@shajimaheswaranPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@califmike2003 Жыл бұрын

There is a smooth tonality to good BW photos, when done right nothing compares to a good BW photo. I just love BW shots and always will.

@jbliborio 2 жыл бұрын

I have an extremely strong wish of emulating Titarenko with scenes of my city. Just givving attention to security issues but I´ll go for it. I´m a B&W lover and that´s one reason why I´ve return to shoot on film that give me the grain and tones I´m looking for...

@mahdiali6732 2 жыл бұрын

I love BW as well. Great video. I’d love to see a video about minimalistic photography

@lafandio8954 2 жыл бұрын

I've been shooting almost exclusively black and white for a few months now. I started because it's cheaper than color film, but now every time I do get some color, it just doesn't work as well. I think when we shoot in black and white, it is much easier to focus on composition and light. Color can very easily subtract from a photo, especially on film where results are not always consistent.

@bradzaruba9686 2 жыл бұрын

I love monochrome: I wish I knew when to use it! However, I am getting better!

@TristanColgate 10 ай бұрын

The best (/worst?) demonstration of B&W vs Colour I can think of comes from the movie world. In 1998 Gus Van Sant remade Hitchcock's Psycho, shot for shot, in colour. Presumably he was already aware that Hitchcock consciously chose black and white (he had made Rope in colour 12 years before). Colour adds nothing, in fact, some things are less effective (the striking black blood running down the drain, Janet Leigh's nightwear goes from white to black after her crime, in colour this goes from green to orange IIRC). I can't imagine that Van Sant consciously set out to demonstrate how little value this would add to a classic, but it's the only reason to even consider watching it.

@andrewcroft2570 10 ай бұрын

Great video Alex, you briefly touched on Alexey Titarenko I don't know if you have done a video on the guy but It's someone that I'd like to know more about.

@warrend8362 2 жыл бұрын

I like peter lindbergh & Newton’s black and white fashion

@Rob.1340 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍📷😎

@twwtb 2 жыл бұрын

Tone, texture, lighting, shadows. For me, viewing a well done B&W photo is much more thought and emotion provoking than any color photo. I will stop and stare at some B&W work until I am "inside" the picture, or until the image is inside me, so to speak. Not so with color photos.

@silviuavramescu4616 2 жыл бұрын

I tach the photos 😁

@DrgnSlyr Жыл бұрын

I think B&W is what I would call more 'tactile'.

@qnetx 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a fan of Clyde Butcher.

@arlettecuello3233 Жыл бұрын

Did you say it was called a rat 90? The thing that helps you see in black and white? I’m super curious about that. Do you have a link?

@marcp.1752 2 жыл бұрын

B&W Photography is all about textures, shapes and lines, etc. I simply love it, being drawn to it. Much more than color. Always. But some things, like fall or especially landscape photography, does look better into color. Black & white photography doesn't work automatically with every subject. For for many things, it's just the right thing, at the right time. And therefore, being better than into color.

@user-os1kj8fs7e Жыл бұрын

John Blakemore

@filmic1 2 жыл бұрын

Makes me think a lot of Herb Ritts.

@davidmilisock5200 2 жыл бұрын

I've been a professional image editor sine the beginning of the digital age. Color images are akin to multiple conversations at a social occasion. Black and white or more accurately as we tend to see them today desaturated RGB images are not akin to but are private conversations between the artist and the viewer. Just my opinion.

@trevor9934 2 жыл бұрын

As always, thank you for a very thought-provoking presentation. I am a huge fan of Sebastião Salgado too. I consider his style is, as you say yourself, masterly. I also like the work of Sean Tucker, who uses the contrasting elements of the city to study and capture the fall of light and shade. OK, I am the first to admit that I am a bit anal about terminology here... {:-) But, if you will forgive me I will go for it: If I was to draw a Venn diagram the outer ring would be Monochrome images. I use the term monochromatic from its root: single colour, thus including images of a single colour group - such as all tones of blue, or red or green etc... They can look great in shots of early morning or sunsets across ranges of mountains. Within that ring, as a subset of it would be Greyscale: (Black TO White) - here there are a range of tones without colour from white through to black with all the shades of grey between, but containing no colour tint whatsoever. Within THAT would be Black+White: only PURE Black and PURE WHITE, a form in the more rigorous expression of the Japanese art of Notan: "Notan is a Japanese word that means “light-dark balance.”. A NOTAN image uses an extremely limited range of values: in its most strict form, just black and white; in its more liberal form, black, white, and a mid-tone." mitchalbala.com/the-wisdom-of-notan. So I use that form as my preferred definition and B&W. As one progresses from the outer layer to the innermost one, the challenges of creating an image (IMHO) become more challenging. pure B+W (NOTAN), demands quite a bit of skill and effort to create a harmonious image, because it is hard for us to imagine. I understood that when the light level becomes low enough we cease to sense colour via the cone receptors and then the rods dominate to allow us to perceive just levels of light and dark at a much more sensitive level.

@sbcinema Жыл бұрын

color is often distracting from the shape, making black and white photography a lot simpler or clearer

@jeffslade1892 2 жыл бұрын

It was the PEN-F that took me back to shooting mono and the 1:1 format of the Instamatic 126 I had as a child, and before that a Bakelite Box Brownie. Because colour was more expensive, I got to shoot mono. I used that cheap camera well into the 70s, transitioning to colour when old enough to work, before I could afford a SLR. Even so, film was relatively expensive, so it obliged you to think about taking the photo before pressing the shutter. With a digital camera it is all to easy to push the burst button and rattle off 50 shots of the same thing, all of them rubbish. To shoot mono with film, we saw the world in colour and had to envision what the photo would look like in mono. With digital it is perhaps easier, we can switch the display to mono and see what we will get. But as with film using the light is perhaps more important for mono than with colour; the flash gun has re-emerged from its hibernation.

@antonbradburn7786 Жыл бұрын

😢Alex where do you buy your discounted photographic books? I’ve checked several ‘discounted’ titles, but none at the prices you paid for yours.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Hi Anton. A lot of these books I've had for years. Others I buy preorder - like the Dan Winters 'Road To Seeing', which IIRC was like $20. They sell out quickly and no more are printed- hence the price going up. I have some on my wish list that were $50 when I put them on there and are now $900!

@jacobbriggs6125 2 жыл бұрын

How do you spell henjis name I tried to google it but it thinks I’m crazy

@mike747436 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive! Almost 15mins of talk about b&w and you didn’t mention the ‘abstraction’ word once. Was that intentional?

@SethHalstead 2 жыл бұрын

How often do you hear people comment about a movie, that it pales in comparison to the book of the same name? The movie may have cost millions to produce and often includes incredible resolution, color grading work along with multichannel audio, and yet people will often comment that it just wasn't as rich as the book. A book is made of fibrous off-white paper with letters printed in black ink, and yet that method of delivery results in a more dramatic story in the reader's mind. I think black and white photography can have a similar result. In a color photo the viewer plays no role in building the image, only in consuming and perhaps some level of interpretation, but in a B&W image the viewer is responsible for creating a part of the experience. They have to fill in the details of the colors, and since there are no colors included, they can choose to make them what they want. They can build a color palette that only includes what they admire in the image or they can fill in every last shadow. It can be highly saturated or subtle. I was thinking about this earlier and walked into my house to see the TV was playing The Munsters, but when I first saw the screen it was just on two characters who were not moving. I actually thought for a moment that it was something on PBS about photography because it was such a vivid image on the screen. I just watched it for a few minutes, honestly, just to marvel at the stunning quality of the imagery in that old sitcom. I plan to work on my B&W skills as I work to improve as a photographer. Thanks for a thoughtful and though provoking video.

@theuktoday4233 2 жыл бұрын

I find black and white photographs present themselves as the only option. I just know they wont work as well in colour, I much prefer stark B&W rather they greyscale.