Indeed you gain flexibility, decide later if it has to be B+W or colour. And also the kind of filtering: if you take a colour shot with the intention to get finally B+W, you decide on the filtering in the digital darkroom. This will work for most filters except ofcourse for pola filters and filters to reduce haze. I like the flexibility: now I go out sometimes with three bodies, one filled with B+W, one with IR and one with colour or slide! What you lose in the process is typical grain. Who said that grain is the brushstroke of the photographer?
Greetings, Jos -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:59 PM Aan: Pentax List Onderwerp: Col or mono with digital (was: Re: I want to start a WAR) Doe aka Marnie (alright if I call you Aka for short?) writes: >But I find B&W boring. Put some color photos next to B&W photos and my eye >will skip right over the B&W to the color This led me to do some thinking relating to digital. When shooting film, one makes a cognitive decision to load either colour or black and white film into the camera, usually based on anticipation of the sort of shots to be captured. With digital, this decision is made after the shots are made. This invites a whole new way of thinking. Framing for colour and framing for mono can be totally different. Seeing a result in glorious colour can easily dissuade removing the colour to produce a mono picture, in my experience. I have done it, but I haven't yet put my thinking cap on and gone out specifically with the intention of shooting 'black and white'. I suspect as digital makes more and more of an inroads into people's photography, we will slowly see mono retreat to museums and art shops? Staying on topic, with the Pentax DSLR imminent, and with Optios apparently a hot seller, this is something to think about. Discuss! Cotty ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________
