On 21/12/04, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed: >One of the things that's often overlooked in discussions of this sort is >lighting. When shooting "real" B&W, one is concentrating on tonality, and >would often be using the light in a scene differently than when shooting >color. So, converting color to B&W is often not the ideal way to get the >best B&W result. The problem is compounded by the number of people who >think they're making good B&W conversions who've never worked with B&W >film. Some images just don't lend themselves well to conversion, regardless >of the method used.
This is a very good point. So my question is, if using digital, do folk see the colour shot and then look for pics to convert to mono later, or do folk see a mono shot at the taking stage? Personally I see a mono pic staring me in the face, I ignore the colour completely and shoot for black and white. Of course, there's always the ones that pop up later on the monitor and I think hmmm that would be better in mono. The fact that I stare down a mono electronic viewfinder for a couple of hours a day may play a part here - I tend to think more in mono terms than colour, oddly enough. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
