Cotty, I think you can add more fuel to the fire. A while back I was requested to shoot B&W for a client and so I went to my lab (Agfa D-Labs) to see what B&W film they work best with. They told me to shoot color and the D-Lab would de-saturate. So I brought in a bunch of negatives of different films and had them do some B&W prints. They turned out just fine.
I did the shoot on Portra 160NC and had them printed B&W off the D-Lab. They client was pleased and I didn't have to "choose" between B&W or color. I have subsequently done this quite a bit with family protraits and weddings and have the clientele pick some B&W and some color images from the same roll. Doesn't even take a digital camera, just a digital lab. So certainly the digital age may have a profound effect on the prevalence of color vs. B&W. My feeling is that B&W popularity will increase. On many prints I have had them printed both ways so my clients can see what they like. Bruce Monday, January 13, 2003, 9:58:56 AM, you wrote: C> 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 C> This led me to do some thinking relating to digital. C> When shooting film, one makes a cognitive decision to load either colour C> or black and white film into the camera, usually based on anticipation of C> the sort of shots to be captured. C> With digital, this decision is made after the shots are made. This C> invites a whole new way of thinking. Framing for colour and framing for C> mono can be totally different. Seeing a result in glorious colour can C> easily dissuade removing the colour to produce a mono picture, in my C> experience. I have done it, but I haven't yet put my thinking cap on and C> gone out specifically with the intention of shooting 'black and white'. C> I suspect as digital makes more and more of an inroads into people's C> photography, we will slowly see mono retreat to museums and art shops? C> Staying on topic, with the Pentax DSLR imminent, and with Optios C> apparently a hot seller, this is something to think about. C> Discuss! C> Cotty C> ____________________________________ C> Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! C> http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ C> ____________________________________ C> Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at C> http://www.macads.co.uk/ C> ____________________________________
