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Is black and white a solution to bad lighting?


13 years 1 month ago #34610 by Monster
I'm messing around with some of my images on my computer and the photos that I don't like or the color or lighting is off, ive been turning these into black and white images. In some cases, this makes a photo that wasn't so special or appealing because of poor lighting or color, into a photo that isn't so bad. I've seen a number of black and white photos here and I was wondering how many of you took these photos with the purpose to transform to black and white? Or was the black and white conversion a cover up? :cheers:
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13 years 1 month ago #34679 by crystal
I shoot everything with the intensions of color. Snow landscape photos are the only shots that I know I will 9 times out of 10 turn into B&W.

If I turn other color pictures into B&W, it just depends on the photo itself. How the light hits, the subject etc..
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13 years 1 month ago #34688 by Frank The Tank
I think it can be used as a effective cover up tool, but doesn't necessarily mean that every black and white photo is a cover up.
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13 years 1 month ago #34690 by Patrick2504
I think black and white images can look better than their colour counterparts. I would say however a black and white image still has to have the same even levels of exposure across high, mid and low tones to make it a good image.

I wouldnt say that a B&W conversion makes an image better, not from a technical perspective anyhow

Patrick
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13 years 1 month ago - 13 years 1 month ago #34697 by eothman
I guess it might work sometimes but this is the special "work of luck" case & not the general one, Black & white photography needs even more attention to details as you strip it from colors, conveying a specific emotion or a clear message about the subject , so it must be well balanced based on what you are trying to convey,,, :D
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13 years 1 month ago #34781 by Joves
As a general rule no. Remember that B&W is just black and white it is alot of greys as well and their tones as well. So if it was bad over or under exposures then it would not convey those tones. The color being off can effect the outcome of the conversion, as the off color transfers over. In the film days you had two mindsets, the color eye or, the B&W eye. When I was shooting B&W I used to think in it or how a scene would look in it. Even now I will shoot with conversion in mind so, I still try to get it right in camera first.
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13 years 1 month ago #34784 by Screamin Scott
There was an old saying that in a color photo, the colors sell the photo & in a B&W photo, the composition sell it. That said, if the composition isn't there, the photo won't cut the mustard...
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13 years 1 month ago #34972 by Monster
Anyone here shoot exclusively black and white photos?
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13 years 1 month ago #35017 by Joves
Not anymore. Back in my film days it shot about 70% B&W. With digital I convert sometimes when I was in a B&W mindset but that is rare anymore. I think maybe I should go out with the intention of shooting for B&W just to stay in practice.
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