Love you black and white images but then again I may be biased as I love black and white photography or should I say monochrome :-). I do agree that on occasions a colour image can be the better choice such as your shot of the flowers on the street but the lampshades I still preferred the B&W image. One tip I can add for shooting B&W is to use filters, specially yellow, orange, and red filters are the most common choices. Yellow can darken the sky, red increase the contrast and orange filter can help with warm smooth skin tones.
Thank you for sharing such valuable tips and insights! I absolutely agree-there are moments when color works better, but black and white has a unique way of simplifying and emphasizing the mood. I love your advice about using filters like yellow, orange, and red to enhance B&W images. It’s such a great way to bring out contrast and texture. Thanks again my dear friend!
There is a special magic to B&W photos 😍. Many is the times boring photos got interesting when converted to B&W. Anyway, love the video and the great tips. Thanks and keep going ✌
To me black and white stand for the basic contradictions and conflicts in life that we can't resolve or get around. That's why black and white photos have the potential to be more meaningful in an existential sense than colorful photos. Best Christmas wishes from Germany to Israel
Thank you for sharing such a deep and meaningful perspective! Your interpretation adds a beautiful layer to the art form that I love.. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!☺️
Hi Gefen! Great video! I have pretty much the same process, great advise. RAW+JPG, ISO higher (but I would go higher than you, with post processing you can remove well, or just use it like grain in film for an effect), I like to use higher contrast in mine as well. typically shoot with HC B&W and protect highlights in my meter on my Q3's. One thing I am troubled with is your background music level while you're talking. Your voice is a little muffled most of the time and low freq/volume and music is hard to filter out. Just my old rock & roll ear opinion.
Thank you so much for the feedback and for sharing your process! I really like your idea of embracing grain for a film-like effect and using higher contrast, I love this look.. Also, thank you for pointing out the background music issue. I’m still learning to edit, and for some reason, it sounded fine in my headphones, but you’re absolutely right I’ll make sure to improve this in future videos!😄🎸
You can shoot RAW only and have your images on your camera in B&W. That way you can edit to B&W in post. Just set to DNG only and set the Jpeg to B&W.. Works.
Thank you for your comment! This is actually similar to the first tip I shared in the video about setting the camera to black and white for better focus on light and composition. Your way is maybe even better for RAW flexibility in editing.. Thanks for this input!
What’s your favorite thing about black and white photography? 📸
This is becoming one of my favorite photography channels. Thank you 🙏🏻
The tip on taking pictures in JPEG and RAW to preserve the color information is smart.
Love b&w. Been shooting Tri-x and Tmax 400 for years. I just started doing b&w on my colour digital camera recently. It’s fun. Thanks for your tips..
Black and white High contrast photography is what I like the most.
Love you black and white images but then again I may be biased as I love black and white photography or should I say monochrome :-). I do agree that on occasions a colour image can be the better choice such as your shot of the flowers on the street but the lampshades I still preferred the B&W image. One tip I can add for shooting B&W is to use filters, specially yellow, orange, and red filters are the most common choices. Yellow can darken the sky, red increase the contrast and orange filter can help with warm smooth skin tones.
Thank you for sharing such valuable tips and insights! I absolutely agree-there are moments when color works better, but black and white has a unique way of simplifying and emphasizing the mood. I love your advice about using filters like yellow, orange, and red to enhance B&W images. It’s such a great way to bring out contrast and texture. Thanks again my dear friend!
There is a special magic to B&W photos 😍. Many is the times boring photos got interesting when converted to B&W.
Anyway, love the video and the great tips.
Thanks and keep going ✌
Thank you so much for this comment! 😍
To me black and white stand for the basic contradictions and conflicts in life that we can't resolve or get around. That's why black and white photos have the potential to be more meaningful in an existential sense than colorful photos.
Best Christmas wishes from Germany to Israel
Thank you for sharing such a deep and meaningful perspective! Your interpretation adds a beautiful layer to the art form that I love.. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!☺️
Hi Gefen! Great video! I have pretty much the same process, great advise. RAW+JPG, ISO higher (but I would go higher than you, with post processing you can remove well, or just use it like grain in film for an effect), I like to use higher contrast in mine as well. typically shoot with HC B&W and protect highlights in my meter on my Q3's.
One thing I am troubled with is your background music level while you're talking. Your voice is a little muffled most of the time and low freq/volume and music is hard to filter out. Just my old rock & roll ear opinion.
Thank you so much for the feedback and for sharing your process! I really like your idea of embracing grain for a film-like effect and using higher contrast, I love this look.. Also, thank you for pointing out the background music issue. I’m still learning to edit, and for some reason, it sounded fine in my headphones, but you’re absolutely right I’ll make sure to improve this in future videos!😄🎸
You can shoot RAW only and have your images on your camera in B&W. That way you can edit to B&W in post. Just set to DNG only and set the Jpeg to B&W.. Works.
Thank you for your comment! This is actually similar to the first tip I shared in the video about setting the camera to black and white for better focus on light and composition. Your way is maybe even better for RAW flexibility in editing.. Thanks for this input!