Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >When I shot film, it was almost exclusively black and white, and my >composition tended to ignore colour in favour of texture. >Since I started shooting digital, with it's automatic colour output, I >am finding that my compositions now tend towards taking the colour of >the object into account. I don't think I am a better photographer for >it, either.
Funny thing is, I sometimes find myself "shooting black and white" without realizing it. After one trip to New Hampshire I came home and was really disappointed with my photos. Then months later I tried a B&W rendering and was startled at how good it looked. I went through all my shots from that trip and virtually all of them looked better as B&W, some dramatically so. It became obvious to me that I'd been "thinking" black & white the whole time. As someone whose formative years of photography were spent doing exclusively B&W it's easy to slip into that way of seeing and thinking without realizing it. I try to be much more aware of it now and often realize mid-shoot that I'm unconsciously working that way. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
