Hmmm ... As a "purist" who prefers to photograph B&W with traditional film, the idea of exposing color film and then converting to B&W in PS seems something of a cheat. However, I agree that some photos look better in B&W, others in color, and have at times "cheated." Yet I still feel that the photo isn't a true B&W photo ... but that's the artist in me, not the practical photo-journalist or documentary shooter.
Using a digicam gives me similar feelings ... I've the book Vietnam Inc, by Philip Jones Griffith, and I never knew that some of the photos had been converted from color, yet it seems logical to have made such conversions. In a scenario that spans a few years of photographing, covering a wide area in numerous situations, it's realistic to assume that, at some point, the photog will run out of Tri-X, and will have to use whatever's available, and I'm sure there were other reasons for the conversions, such as needing to shoot color for a particular assignment and wanting to keep the book uniformly in B&W. I'm far less critical of making such conversions these days ... perhaps because I'm getting lazier, perhaps because the technology is now available for me to do it easier and at little cost, and I'm enjoying playing with the technology, or maybe I just don't give much thought any more to how a photograph was made, and spend more time considering the results. I still don't like the idea, though, of including desaturated color in the B&W section of the PUG .... odd, in some ways, don't you think? Cotty wrote: > > Bearing in mind the prevalence of the *ist D and others in the kit bags > of folk on this list, I thought it would be worth mentioning this article > I found while going through the back issues of The Digital Journalist > (www.digitaljournalist.org). On the subject of monochrome versus colour, > with film you load it and get that mindset on. With digital.... > > <http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0311/howe.html> > > Cheers, > Cotty > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps > _____________________________ > Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
