Hey Chuck, Just stumbled on your channel and subscribed. Can’t wait to see how the year unfolds for you and monochrome photography. I am an old timer that has been watching tons of RUclips channels with all these young kids and it’s refreshing to see someone closer to my era (I’m a grumpy old guy) with a channel like yours. I agree, 2024 is going to be a colorful year so I too will be shooting in black and white as much as I can. Cheers, Rob.
Mr. Ables, I truly appreciate your endeavor to shoot BNW for the year. I am primarily a mono shooter myself. However I do events for charity and of course I slip a black and white in there next to its color counterpart. I always get positive remarks on those images. I started shooting black and white years ago and now I have developed "seeing" in monochrome. I keep the Picture Control in monochrome as well. I stated liking black and white when I was growing up in the 50's. I am 76 but my Dad use to take me to the movies when they were still black and white. Mostly Sci-Fi and WWII shows. I am a firm believer that when you reduce all of the color in an image you then bring out the more important parts such as the subject, the depth etc. I have a Nikon D5600 with a cropped 10-20mm lens as my always with me camera. I also have a Nikon D500 and a D580. I know a lot of people (like my Mom and Dad) that had their whole wedding shot in black and white with a few color shots added in. Black and white brings me back to those days where there wasn't so much of "you have to have this and you have to have that" to be good. I am truly looking forward to your adventure.
paulivaska, thank you so much for the comment and sharing your thoughts about monochrome photography. I have heard over time a photographer can develops an eye for monochrome with composition all in their mind's eye. It's one of those challenges this year I hope to see if I can develop and improve on, as well as several other challenges b&w photography will bring throughout the year.
Love monochrome, always have always will. Interesting how when you’re out there you see everything in black and white… 🤔colour is descriptive - monochrome is interpretive…✌️🇦🇺
Good luck to you - you seem like a determined sort of man and clearly a very experienced and capable photographer. I think a fixed lens will ultimately present more of a challenge than the decision to restrict yourself to b/w for a whole year. I convinced myself that the Q2 was my dream camera until I took a 28mm Canon lens into London and took a series of mostly mediocre architecture shots. I know a bad workman blames his tools, but I found 28mm either too narrow or too wide, although part of my problem was not being able to position myself ideally due to traffic. Anyway, it completely changed my mind about getting a Q2 although I love the form factor. But once again, you obviously know your business and I don't doubt you'll do full justice to a wonderful camera. The framing of your truck underneath a sign right at the end was terrific.
Appreciate your comment, MichealSeaghdha. You're to kind, thank you. I belong to a couple of photography groups here, and the topic of the 28mm focal length comes up on occasions. Many would rather shoot a good ol' 50mm focal length lens, and I can certainly understand that. So when I was considering the very thing you mentioned, I was concerned about the fix lens and decided to supplement my Q2M. I'm working with MPB Camera to trade in some gear to hopefully get an ol' Leica M246. I do have a few Leica M Mount lenses for my Leica film cameras.
Interesting perspective (excuse the pun!). I have the Q2 and use it for landscape, street and, occasionally, architecture pictures. My architecture shots are usually abstract close crops equivalent to 120mm or above. Cropping the Q2 files works for that. Yes, the depth of field is not the same if I had used a 90mm or 120mm but the size of the files means such extreme cropping is fine and the perspective is identical if the subject is shot from the same location.
Chuck...I'm gonna subscribe and follow along with you on the journey. I shoot Sony's for pay but purchased a Fuji for projects and I love some of the black-and-white film looks you can dial in. I look forward to seeing how those Leica's work out for you. Best wishes for your 2024 success.
This would be great for me as I just bought a Sony a 300. Question shoot with the 300 in monochrome or Raw and convert due to not being able fix jpeg in post?
Great question and I hope your Sony A300 provides you with years of pleasure. Now the workflow and what it comes down to is what do you hope to achieve? Just monochrome? For myself in the last few months of 2023, when I was in the mood to photograph just monochrome, I set my camera to monochrome/jpeg only. No RAW file at all because I didn't want to be influenced with knowing I had a color RAW file to work with. I wanted to capture what I envisioned in monochrome and hopefully achieve what I wanted. It's a challenge for me this year to see if I can do a decent job of only photographing in B&W. I hope this gives you food for thought. Because it's not a bad idea either monochrome/jpeg to get the feel yet save it in RAW to massage it afterwards to your satisfaction. It's who you are wanting to achieve with your works.
@@ChuckAbles Thanks, will follow you and learn. James (75 had to give up drumming so back to photography) and love black and white. Also have a Zfc and shoot sometimes with my Zeiss Tessar 2.8- 45 mm and p1000 Nikon.
Good day. I’m curious, are you editing your images or these straight out of camera? If editing what software and what is your workflow like? Edit raw or jpeg? Cheers, G
Thank you. What a great question. More often than not, I try and keep post editing photographs for my presentation at a minimum. It just really depends on what I want to achieve. Having said that, when I do post edit, I start in Lightroom Classic to work with the RAW file on exposures and such. And then open in Photoshop to wrap it up. All basic editing for me.
@@ChuckAbles I am also on a similar journey and also have purchased a dedicated b&w camera. I agee with your comments about using the color raw files, to many options. I find this much easier to cut through the editing muck and concentrate on the images and technique. Like analog b&w I could use filters to manipulate the colors thus keeping with this journey.I found that I can only edit the raw in Lrc, many other programs do not recognize the files even in dng format. Thanks for sharing, G If interested I can email you a couple of images to share what I have been doing?
Amazing video and your black and white photos look amazing. I love taking black and white pics too
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Hey Chuck, Just stumbled on your channel and subscribed. Can’t wait to see how the year unfolds for you and monochrome photography. I am an old timer that has been watching tons of RUclips channels with all these young kids and it’s refreshing to see someone closer to my era (I’m a grumpy old guy) with a channel like yours. I agree, 2024 is going to be a colorful year so I too will be shooting in black and white as much as I can. Cheers, Rob.
2DogAle I chuckled when I read your comment. Us ol' timers got to stick together.
I love black and white Photography! Beautiful shots, excellent work 👏👏👏 Cheers from Sweden
Appreciate it very much. Thank you.
Mr. Ables, I truly appreciate your endeavor to shoot BNW for the year. I am primarily a mono shooter myself. However I do events for charity and of course I slip a black and white in there next to its color counterpart. I always get positive remarks on those images. I started shooting black and white years ago and now I have developed "seeing" in monochrome. I keep the Picture Control in monochrome as well. I stated liking black and white when I was growing up in the 50's. I am 76 but my Dad use to take me to the movies when they were still black and white. Mostly Sci-Fi and WWII shows. I am a firm believer that when you reduce all of the color in an image you then bring out the more important parts such as the subject, the depth etc. I have a Nikon D5600 with a cropped 10-20mm lens as my always with me camera. I also have a Nikon D500 and a D580. I know a lot of people (like my Mom and Dad) that had their whole wedding shot in black and white with a few color shots added in. Black and white brings me back to those days where there wasn't so much of "you have to have this and you have to have that" to be good. I am truly looking forward to your adventure.
paulivaska, thank you so much for the comment and sharing your thoughts about monochrome photography. I have heard over time a photographer can develops an eye for monochrome with composition all in their mind's eye. It's one of those challenges this year I hope to see if I can develop and improve on, as well as several other challenges b&w photography will bring throughout the year.
Love monochrome, always have always will. Interesting how when you’re out there you see everything in black and white…
🤔colour is descriptive - monochrome is interpretive…✌️🇦🇺
Markielinhart, that is a really beautiful comment. Thank you.
Now uou got an old Norwegian subcriber!👍👍👌👌✌✌❤❤
I appreciate that so much. Thank you from Arizona.
Good luck to you - you seem like a determined sort of man and clearly a very experienced and capable photographer. I think a fixed lens will ultimately present more of a challenge than the decision to restrict yourself to b/w for a whole year. I convinced myself that the Q2 was my dream camera until I took a 28mm Canon lens into London and took a series of mostly mediocre architecture shots. I know a bad workman blames his tools, but I found 28mm either too narrow or too wide, although part of my problem was not being able to position myself ideally due to traffic. Anyway, it completely changed my mind about getting a Q2 although I love the form factor. But once again, you obviously know your business and I don't doubt you'll do full justice to a wonderful camera. The framing of your truck underneath a sign right at the end was terrific.
Appreciate your comment, MichealSeaghdha. You're to kind, thank you. I belong to a couple of photography groups here, and the topic of the 28mm focal length comes up on occasions. Many would rather shoot a good ol' 50mm focal length lens, and I can certainly understand that. So when I was considering the very thing you mentioned, I was concerned about the fix lens and decided to supplement my Q2M. I'm working with MPB Camera to trade in some gear to hopefully get an ol' Leica M246. I do have a few Leica M Mount lenses for my Leica film cameras.
Interesting perspective (excuse the pun!). I have the Q2 and use it for landscape, street and, occasionally, architecture pictures. My architecture shots are usually abstract close crops equivalent to 120mm or above. Cropping the Q2 files works for that. Yes, the depth of field is not the same if I had used a 90mm or 120mm but the size of the files means such extreme cropping is fine and the perspective is identical if the subject is shot from the same location.
ianforber, thank you for the comment.
Chuck...I'm gonna subscribe and follow along with you on the journey. I shoot Sony's for pay but purchased a Fuji for projects and I love some of the black-and-white film looks you can dial in. I look forward to seeing how those Leica's work out for you. Best wishes for your 2024 success.
Victor, I appreciate that very much. Thank you.
I'm all black and white!
Thanks.
This would be great for me as I just bought a Sony a 300. Question shoot with the 300 in monochrome or Raw and convert due to not being able fix jpeg in post?
Great question and I hope your Sony A300 provides you with years of pleasure. Now the workflow and what it comes down to is what do you hope to achieve? Just monochrome? For myself in the last few months of 2023, when I was in the mood to photograph just monochrome, I set my camera to monochrome/jpeg only. No RAW file at all because I didn't want to be influenced with knowing I had a color RAW file to work with. I wanted to capture what I envisioned in monochrome and hopefully achieve what I wanted. It's a challenge for me this year to see if I can do a decent job of only photographing in B&W. I hope this gives you food for thought. Because it's not a bad idea either monochrome/jpeg to get the feel yet save it in RAW to massage it afterwards to your satisfaction. It's who you are wanting to achieve with your works.
@@ChuckAbles Thanks, will follow you and learn. James (75 had to give up drumming so back to photography) and love black and white. Also have a Zfc and shoot sometimes with my Zeiss Tessar 2.8- 45 mm and p1000 Nikon.
Good day. I’m curious, are you editing your images or these straight out of camera? If editing what software and what is your workflow like? Edit raw or jpeg? Cheers, G
Thank you. What a great question. More often than not, I try and keep post editing photographs for my presentation at a minimum. It just really depends on what I want to achieve. Having said that, when I do post edit, I start in Lightroom Classic to work with the RAW file on exposures and such. And then open in Photoshop to wrap it up. All basic editing for me.
@@ChuckAbles I am also on a similar journey and also have purchased a dedicated b&w camera. I agee with your comments about using the color raw files, to many options. I find this much easier to cut through the editing muck and concentrate on the images and technique. Like analog b&w I could use filters to manipulate the colors thus keeping with this journey.I found that I can only edit the raw in Lrc, many other programs do not recognize the files even in dng format. Thanks for sharing, G
If interested I can email you a couple of images to share what I have been doing?