I shot almost all BW film back in the day, primarily because I wanted to do my own processing. Plus I was shooting for pulp paper car mags that wanted primarily BW 8x10s. I didn’t necessarily think in terms of textures, but rather in terms of how colors would translate to shades of gray. For example, I was painfully aware, for example, that medium red and medium green would come out almost identical without filtration. I still think that way when I’m planning a BW shot, which I sometimes do prior to opening the shutter, but I know I can do the filtration on the computer. Love that part of it. Wouldn’t want to sacrifice that by working with a BW only camera. On Mar 5, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/03/2014 11:23 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Yes, you can use colour filters on the lens to get back some control. >>> But still not as much as the raw colour output from un-neutered >>> cameras. >> >> On the other hand, those Bayer CFA filters block a lot of light. If >> you know you want the effect of a yellow filter, for example, it >> should be[*] advantageous to shoot a monochromatic sensor with a >> yellow lens filter (which passes both red and green light to every >> pixel), instead of each pixel just seeing just red, or green, or >> (unwanted) blue light. >> >> There's also Mike Johnston's point that if he's shooting a B&W camera, >> or a camera loaded with B&W film, he sees the world differently. That >> surely affects people to very different degrees, but I think I can >> understand a bit of it. >> >> [*] ceteris paribus, of course, which I'm sure it isn't. >> > When I shot film, it was almost exclusively black and white, and my > composition tended to ignore colour in favour of texture. > Since I started shooting digital, with it's automatic colour output, I am > finding that my compositions now tend towards taking the colour of the object > into account. I don't think I am a better photographer for it, either. > > bill > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
