tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post5894964534556022944..comments2024-03-28T18:34:03.426-04:00Comments on Working Pictures: Carl Weesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-18526376171148411122008-09-21T08:32:00.000-04:002008-09-21T08:32:00.000-04:00I think this is perceptual more than technical. Fo...I think this is perceptual more than technical. For many years I did most of my personal work in b&w (though my commercial illustration was nearly all color on transparency film). When I began doing digital capture/digital printing around 4 years ago, it was the quality of color results that drew me in (I'd never been fond of darkroom color prints). In b&w, I had to learn to make pictures that didn't rely on subject colors to "work." In color I had to make sure subject color worked for and not against the point of the picture. When I've experimented converting my captures to b&w, I always miss the color component. When shooting film, I never carried b&w and color to choose between them subject by subject, so perhaps this is a knack I simply haven't learned.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-30630127402234003722008-09-21T07:38:00.000-04:002008-09-21T07:38:00.000-04:00My experience is, that pictures looking good in co...My experience is, that pictures looking good in color, often look good in b&w.<BR/><BR/>OK, there are situations where you can't control color, where color is working against your subject.<BR/><BR/>If you can not accentuate your main subject by color, it is mostly possible to accentuate it in b&w.<BR/>Although all of my pictures are made in color, I like the abstraction of b&w.<BR/><BR/>Is "reading" a b&w-photo a more intellectual achievement?<BR/>I'm not quite shure: Cartier-Bresson said, that he found more emotion in b&w than in color …promenadeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312836303718356998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-21046835420512726192008-09-20T10:30:00.000-04:002008-09-20T10:30:00.000-04:00Hi Martin,When shooting digital capture, I'm a...Hi Martin,<BR/><BR/>When shooting digital capture, I'm almost always "thinking in color" so only make pictures where the color is essential to the design. But recently I ran into a couple of situations where I really liked the light and space, but not the color of the scene. Usually this means I'd pass on the situation, but this time I realized that if I had a view camera along, or a Leica loaded with Tri-X, I'd make the picture in b&w. So why not try a capture and then a conversion? I haven't made up my mind whether I really like them or not, but thought they'd be interesting to post.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-89138903123403609562008-09-20T10:09:00.000-04:002008-09-20T10:09:00.000-04:00Carl, as I don't remember b/w-phtos in Working Pic...Carl, <BR/><BR/>as I don't remember b/w-phtos in Working Pictures, would you please explain, why you have converted this picture in b/w?<BR/><BR/>Greetings!promenadeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312836303718356998noreply@blogger.com