Nice, Bae. The black and white is kind of moody and atmospheric.
Nice, Bae. The black and white is kind of moody and atmospheric.
Black and white is so effective, I guess because we dont see b & w images too often.
When I make a floral design for a competition, I like to take a black-and-white photo of it to judge, proportion, scale, balance. Color distracts me from those basic artistic principles.
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I’ve been using a monochrome sensor camera recently. It is incapable of taking color photos at all.Originally Posted by iris lilies
There are some significant advantages to this. The monochrome sensor lacks the usual color array placed in front of the sensor for the R/G/B color channels - every pixel is just luminance information. This results in much higher effective resolution, better microcontrast, higher dynamic range (in particular, many more shades of greyscale), and lower noise. I can take photos at ISO levels that would be pure noise with my color cameras.
It’s the perfect experiment for the overcast foggy PNW winter.
You did capture a pretty wide dynamic range, by my eye. In my amateurish camera days, which are not quite over, I probably would have tried a graduated ND filter on the horizon or wrestled in PS for a couple of hours to blend two exposures. I have thought B+W images like that are perfectly suited for black and white film and darkroom and traditional vintage processing, but that ship has sailed for a lot of ways.
Anyway, they are nice and your solution is somewhat unique, far as i know. I had an early nice digital DSLR and there was a time when they had become mega pixel obsolete and you could pick up one for relatively cheap and have a monochrome full frame sensor installed. Something I considered before selling mine. A nice thing about increasing your ISO without too much noise and then using faster shutter speeds could maybe eliminate the need for a tripod in low light like that, depending on how critical a person is? I'm not sure how far image stabilization lenses and cameras have gotten these days.
I'd welcome a way back machine to the 4X5 days when you loaded film in a darkroom, use light meters, upside down focus screens, dark cloths, and manual shutters. That was an artistic process of it's own. Seeing everything upside down with a relatively expense piece of sheet film and a hand held light meter makes you think about things differently befpre taking a shot. Things move on.
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I'm looking to take this monochrome sensor digital images, turning them into negatives and printing the negatives onto transparency films, then contact-printing the negatives onto hand-prepare paper using salt-printing or cyanotype printing.
I'm boldly using 2025 to leap back to the 1830s.
That would be pretty interesting and certainly unique. I might picture how one might make a 4x5 sheet for contact printing, but larger print sizes I'm uncertain about. I'm certain there are ways. It does seem like there are still some choices of film varieties for B+W film in the larger negative sizes, but for transparencies a little more limited? I've lost rack of certain stae of the art things these days. I would think a good silver gelatin or other old processing technique without dealing with contact printing would still make a stunning print if the resolution would hold for enlargements.
"I spent the summer traveling: I got half-way across my backyard." Louis Aggasiz
I worked for 16 years at an orthopedic rehab facility. One of our more eminent ortho MDs was quite well-connected with some pretty famous people. Lee Friedlander was a friend of his, and came to spend a 1 - 2 month period with us when needing rehab after some sort of injury (I forget what it was). He is a famous modern American photographer, and he was a nice guy and a great patient. He gifted me and others at our center with signed copies of his books, which were all done in black and white photography. This was in late 1996.
This is the book he gave to me (Flowers and Trees), although obviously not my copy featured here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPGq6wwjQe8/
(The inscription thanks me for my kindness. It never failed to amaze me how the patients who required the least from me were the most grateful).
Anyhow, he was known for work with light and shadows and reflections, and I believe he typically shot in black and white.
I know nothing of films, filters, settings, or any such. What I do know is that black and white pictures, to me, are much more evocative than anything in color. except perhaps sunsets, lol. Bae, those photos are amazing. rosa, lovely book! what a nice gesture. there was an Ansel Adams exhibit at a local museum a while back, and its catalogue is one of my favorite books to look thru when I'm down. Not as great as looking at the actual work, but still great.
I took this snapshot while DH was driving us back to the Islands. I haven't adjusted any filters, and the shot is in "color" but I love both how the color looks and also the perspective. I also like how I captured the teeny little dot of a headlight at the vanishing point.
Just out of curiosity, I'm assuming to embed a bigger, better photo, you have to upload from a third party (like Photobucket)? I've always wondered--bae and Alan always post nice big pics!
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Yep, you're not actually 'uploading' a photo here, you're copying and pasting a photo which has already been uploaded to a site elsewhere. The result is that the pic doesn't actually exist on our site, it is being fetched as needed from the original site when you open whatever thread it is in. Most of mine come from my Facebook posts.
As an example, we're currently on the road visiting various campsites. We're in Texas at the moment and checked into the Caprock Canyon State Park a few days ago. This particular park is the home of the state of Texas' official bison herd which is free to roam within our campsite if they're so inclined. I posted a few pics of them on my Facebook page which I'm going to visit now and click on one of the pics to view, then I'll right click on the photo, choose 'copy image' then return here to simply right click within my text box and choose 'paste'. The result will be a large pic of a bison peacefully grazing about 40 yards from our camper. (keep in mind though that the pic you're copying must be set to 'public' at the original site in order to be seen by a general audience elsewhere)
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