Black and White Photography: My Advice After Several Decades. By photographer Thorsten Overgaard

Magic of Light by photographer Thorsten Overgaard

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Chapters:
Is black & white photography better than color photography? (1:04)
The only one rule in photography (1:31)
The 18% gray card (1:44)
The spot meter (2:22)
The incident light meter (2:29)
What does a camera light meter see? (3:00)
There is only one correct exposure in photography (3:46)
Beautiful black and white tones (4:12)
"Makeup Girl" (5:15)
Black & White at night with 7artisans 50mm f/1.1 (5:56)
"Running in the Opera in Paris" (6:20)
John Travolta (7:31)
John Legend (8:09)
Henri Cartier-Bresson "Behind the Gare Station Lazare" Paris 1932 (8:45)
Dr. Paul Wolff (9:47)
Beyoncé and Jay-Z (10:40)
"Saddle 1, Paris 1976" by Helmut Newton (11:17)
Black & White photography is simple! (13:12)
Ansel Adams: "Making a Photograph" (14:08)
The Zone System by Ansel Adams (14:23)
Ansel Adams with the Salford Electrical Instruments spot meter (14:42)
Changing tonality with kelvin adjustments in Lightroom (16:17)
Color or Black & White photography - Which is most difficult? (17:38)
Kodak Color Control Patches (18:07)
Painter Per Kirkeby color harmony (18:11)
Macbeth Color Checker by Xrite (18:27)
The Artist's Color Wheel (18:40)
Spectroscope (19:29)
Sekonic Spectromaster Color Meter (19:35)
ASC - American Society of Cinematographers (21:12)
Kodak Gray Scale (21:35)
Pablo Picasso - Writing with Light (22:11)
Photography is about reflections of light (22:23)
Magazines and color photography vs black & white photography (24:35)
Leica M4 film camera and Kodak Tmax film (25:22)
Leica M Monochrom (Leica M9 Monochrom) (26:16)
The monochrome sensor (26:42)
Leica Q2 Monochrom black and white digital camera (27:58)
Photographs by Layla Bego (28:17)
Leica M9 mirrorless digital full-frame camera CCD (28:59)
Leica M240 mirrorless digital full-frame camera CMOS (30:16)
Color filters for black & white photography (31:50)
Defining your black & white style (34:16)
Anton Borbijn (34:22)
Paul Cox (34:42)
Greg Gorman (34:48)
Janusz Kaminski and Steven Spielberg (34:58)
Black & white must go from almost white to almost black (35:40)
Editing photos for newspapers and magazines (36:40)
Halftone printing (37:19)
Magic of Light (38:47)
Free stuff for photographers (39:25)
Thorsten von Overgaard is a Danish writer and photographer, specializing in portrait photography and documentary photography, known for writings about photography and as an educator. You are always welcome to send an e-mail to Thorsten for questions, suggestions and ideas. Thorsten Overgaard is an independent writer and photographer who write, teach workshops and publish user reports about the equipment he uses. There is no affiliation with Leica Camera AG or any camera dealers, no free gifts, no sponsorship, no kickback and no paid content. All you see is real and based on the life of an eccentric and hard-working photographer who makes his own money, buys his own equipment and form his own independent opinions - and shares with you. Enjoy the ride.
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@jacovanlith5082 Год назад

EXTRA FILTER INFO: The YELLOW filter is the first needed colour filter when exposing a B&W film. The panchromatic B&W film sees the blue sky as a very light gray. Almost like the same gray when a photo is made of the blond hairs of a person, the steam clouds of a locomotive, the white sails of a vessel and the white clouds in the sky. The yellow filter makes the blue sky darker; so the blond hairs, the white sails and clouds get better visible. The YEllOW filter makes the color yellow brighter (or "invisible"). This filter can block the yellow stains in an old photograp or a newspaper, when making a reproduction of it on a B&W film (( or digital camera). The RED and ORANGE filters must be used when finding dark stains on an old photo and brown stains in a printed text. The ORANGE and RED filters make less visible the reckles, veins and facial stains. A red coloured London buss will be much brighter by using a red filter. When shooting with a red filter on a panchromatic film, the photo will look like it was made at night by moonight. The BLUE filter makes the red lips and red hair much darker. Also more visible the reckles, the facial stains and bruisings of the body and stains on old phootos. A GREEN filter makes the green leaves brighter and a red London bus darker. The INFRA RED filter is needed to block all the visible light, when exposing an infra red film by night or day. The POLARISING filter blocks reflexions on all surfaces, but not the ones on a metal surface. The filter makes it possible to take away the reflexion on the glass of a window, All filters have a FILTERFACTOR; because of the density of the colored filters a l onger exposure time or a wider aperture.is needed Not all color filters can be used on ORTHO films and NON SENSIBILISED films.

@dovetomarc 2 года назад

Thank you Thorsten for inspiring us! Much appreciated.

@marcp.1752 2 года назад

There's something "magic" about b&w photography - which never get's old. It's about the tonality, the -rendition of tones, shapes, lines, spaces...etc....about the essence, of a photograph. Our eyes & mind especially is not being distracted by colors whileas watching a scenery into b&w.

@DeeRosa 2 года назад

I love you videos Thorsten! It’s nice to se photographers who don’t care about sharpness or the name of the tool and instead focus on why it works for them and then teach us how to better create. Cheers!

@Stone1108 Год назад

I enjoy your thoroughness and sincerity. You’re are fantastic trustworthy reference with amazing knowledge and expertise. Thanks once again.

@georgescanvas 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing your experience and your knowledge with us. Your photographs have lots of character and emotion too.

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you for the kind words.

@HartponderJr Год назад

The Opera Running Photo, Bravo!

@MrFreightdawg747 2 года назад

Love that album!!! ELO Out Of The Blue.

@ruudkuiper5515 2 года назад

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts 👍🏻👍🏻

@oscarpow 2 года назад

Wonderful video! Lots of fun watching it and a lot of interesting things to try. Many thanks, Thorsten.

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Welcome, and thank you for the feedback 🙂

@liczkas 2 года назад

I learnt a lot today. Thanks very much Thorsten!

@tamilhoward9708 2 года назад

A rented M9 with a 50 Lux was my gateway drug into the world of Leica.

@okay6750 2 года назад

Thank you. I needed a boost.

@exjazzer Год назад

Thank you for sharing a picture of your mom and your knowledge.

@jimd5173 2 года назад

Thorsten, several years ago I watched a video of yours for the first time. In that video you said something to the effect of that if you don't want to get hooked on Leica, don't watch this video. I watched. I bought an M6 and a 50mm Summicron, then I bought an M262, love them both, and now thinking of a Q2. I have followed you on You Tube ever since that first video.

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Yes, it's a fact. Once infected, there is no way back :-)

@jaapjandevries1935 2 года назад

Same with me. Happy M8 / MD-262 shooter. The 262 is my daily 'to-go' camera (with the 50mm APO Summilux).

@subrotomitra 2 года назад

Master at work!!

@MoghulVeyron 2 года назад

Great video, really informative!

@mwales2112 2 года назад

Thanks for the Info Thorsten...... Love the ELO album on the mantal...

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Yes :-)

@user-tp9zi7je2g 2 года назад

You're a Great Teacher !

@Blumis2000 2 года назад

Hey Thorsten, stor fan! Mega fedt at høre om fotografering på det her niveau

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Tak!

@manojchandramishra906 2 года назад

Thanks Thorston… . There is always something new in your presentation. Liked the way you made the point of what a true great BnW picture is!

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you :-)

@zoltankaparthy9095 2 года назад

Really good and encouraging.

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you!

@jimd5173 2 года назад

Great video

@dmitriymuktarov2854 2 года назад

Lovely video as always. Especially with the Muammar Gaddafi's portrait on a wall...😀

@barryobrien1890 2 года назад

Thanks. Since most of us see in color most of the time then black and white is a distortion of what we see, which allows to interpret reality in a different way, that we cannot do with colour images, allowing the photographer to add something to the picture

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Yes, that is one theory and perception. for sure B&W is a refreshing different look. Try to find black and white paintings. Not many do them, but they stand out.

@manickvelu2047 Год назад

Great video!

@757GLG 2 года назад

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. I just "liked" and subscribed.

@MrPetermc199 2 года назад

Nice to see some real printed photographs, it makes a difference for the presentation.

@williaminbody205 2 года назад

They say it’s not a photograph until you print it…

@GrenvilleMelonseedSkiff496 10 месяцев назад

Great info here … thanks very much! I’m mostly shooting monochrome JPEG’s + raw with my Fuji X100V. 📷🙂

@petererlandson3432 2 года назад

Great!

@RS-Amsterdam 2 года назад

As Leica shooter and an urge for B/W I loved this video a lot and thanks for sharing. I love that picture of your mother, beside the photography part, what a beautiful woman with a nice open face. Now allow me to make a point on modified Color Sensors cameras where the Color Filter is removed because you DON'T get the same result as a factory made B/W camera. Allow me to explain: When the light hits the color filter where RGB is filtered per color before it hits the "photo diodes" there is a DIFFERENT PER COLOR attenuation due to the filter. So the exposure of the light hitting the diodes is different per color. Now after the sensor this will be corrected so the exposure levels are equal again (by software - firmware). Now removing the color filter the exposure of light on the "photo diodes" will be ALL equal but after the sensor the attention per color is STILL THERE so it will give a different output cause one CAN NOT ALTER THE FIRMWARE to take away that per color amplification. Therefor it is NOT quite the same as a dedicated B/W camera. Anyways, great video, love your channel

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

There's a few point the video doesn't deal with. One is the simplicity that a monochrome sensor gives: that you can't alter the colors with kelvin or color channel changes. It's just light. The freedom of the monochrome sensor is that you don't have to deal with "what if?" I do this or that, because the data is not there to manipulate. So one can go two ways on convincing oneself that "this is the right way": 1) Get a monochrome camera and don't care about colors and other possibilities. It is what it is, and it works really well. Or: 2) Get a color sensor, edit to black and white and be convinced that the b&w output one get is just as good as if it was a real monochrome sensor (which is true in the sense that nobody can know, and nobody can really tell the difference from looking at the picture).

@RS-Amsterdam 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard I totally agree on removing the color filter to get a monochrome camera, and e.g. the micro-contrast will be better. My point is that it is not 100% equal to a factory based monochrome cause not every photocell will give the same rate of exposure. Looking at a B/W image of an altered color sensor it will probably not be noticed. One should change a Q color sensor to monochrome (to keep it a bit affordable hehehe) and compare the shots to a one taken with a monochrome Q. I hope you get my point. In addition to that I also put some time in decompiling firmware but I stopped that after a while cause it was very hard (although in a forum, we made some progress)

@juniorwalter9083 Год назад

Thank you! Not becouse your tips on B&W photography (which i appreciate by all means), but for not being pretencious Leica a-hole. Good work mate.

@PedroLeitao Год назад

interesting video!

@dhritimanbatchu Год назад

Thank you for sharing this, it's great insight for someone like me who's just getting into this. For the image 'Running in the opera', how did you focus using the M10P? Was it a case of pre-focusing on the right spot and waiting for her to reach that spot? Or are you manually turning the focus to follow her?

@jacovanlith5082 Год назад

This talk on B&W or Colour would be much more interesting by showing some SLR 6 x 6 cm camera. Hasselblad SWC/M, Hasselblad 500 C/M, Hasselblad 500 EL/M plus some of the backs: A12, A24, A70, A250, A16, A16s, Pano35,Pola and Sheet film.

@alexnet08 2 года назад

many thanks :-)

@salmonefotografia77 2 года назад

Firstly, thank you for sharing, and the video is very meaningful and useful for me, for my photography! I love b&w photography. You showed the details , they are very important for me!

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you :-) Glad to hear that.

@salmonefotografia77 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Waiting for your next video, thank you!!!

@tjmanou6422 2 года назад

Until i grabbed a Leica i never enjoyed shooting BW as other camera brands didnt give those juicy blacks almost film like look. Other brands make it look synthetic, thin with no real depth. Thank GOD for Leica ;))

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Yes, Leica has a long tradition for being used to make b&w photos.

@Brause_Market 2 года назад

just watching this because of the first 10 seconds ; )

@jackjross 2 года назад

Hey Thorsten! Thank you for providing some understanding about the tones of black and white. I was curious what your thoughts are on the M10-P vs the M10 Monochrome. My work for the longest has been a mix of color and black and white. Lately, I've been more intrigued by high contrast black and white photography. One of the reasons why I'm leaning towards the Monochrome is because of the simplicity of the rendering from camera to capture one. Also simplifying the shooting process by only focusing on the shot versus the balance of color. What do you think? Be versatile with the M10-P or be specific with the Monochrome?

@miraklemax 2 года назад

what do you have attached to the lens on the q2 monochrom? thanks

@Narsuitus 2 года назад

Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed the analysis of your mother's image. What was her age at the time of the photo? How young was she when you were born? Is she still alive?

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

I think she was 14 at the time, it was her confirmation photo.

@csaba5415 2 года назад

Very interesting take on B&W photography, entertaining to watch! On a different note: I have ordered one of your ventilated shades but I need some support. Where or how can I get help? Thank you!

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thak you for the kind words. Mail to am@overgaard.dk for questions on shades, they are all in stock again after a long time of the border having been closed to the factory.

@csaba5415 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Takk Thorsten! Jeg har sendt en mail til epostadressen fordi jeg ikke tror at min ordre har blitt opprettet på tross av betalingen.

@RonK 2 года назад

all images look very good and very professional. What puzzles me: all of the images after the old one of your mom look "new", you can tell immediately that the image of the mom and those of the daughter, the make-up girl, the runner, the musician on the other side are decades apart. I still can't tell why is that, maybe you have an answer? Are the newer images kind of "too clear" or "too sharp"? Or what is it that makes old pictures look different, almost always? Different paper? more yellowish (flash-)lights? What would it take to recreate the old image as similar as possible?

@andrewsimpson5436 2 года назад

When you shoot colour with Mono JPEG, do you have the viewer set so you view in colour or Mono? Thanks for the thoughts and keeping it "simple" :-)

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

I have the EVF viewer set to black and white no matter if I photograph in color or black and white. In the newer Leica cameras, you can set the JPG to black and white but only shoot in color; an the EVF will show the JPG preview setting even you never take or save any of the JPGs. Neat detail.

@andrewsimpson5436 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Thanks for that, I use a Fuji GFX50s so a similar setup.

@janw.jensen2490 2 года назад

Soligar 😀

@carrieannkouri2151 2 года назад

Your mom and daughter are beautiful.

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you :-)

@manchesterstreetphotos5126 2 года назад

I can't decide between making monochrome .jpg files in my camera or converting RAW to monochrome .jpg in my computer. What do others think ?

@pacoguerilla3097 Год назад

👍🙏

@rio_nakayama 2 года назад

Wait.. You've been to Jakarta???? Wish I could've join your class then. Hope you visit again.

@DanielNovello 2 года назад

Dear Thorsten, how can I get info on a lens shade I ordered for the Q2?

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Mail to am@overgaard.dk - Unfortunately the system is set up so you get a PayPal reciept, and then no information till you get a mail with the tracking number. We don't have a order tracking system.

@DanielNovello 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Thanks! When will the lens shade be delivered?

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

@@DanielNovello Usually 10-20 days from order

@DanielNovello 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Thanks for that info. Hardly worth the express shipping cost, I would think:)

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

@@DanielNovello No, don't bother with that. They all ship with FedEx complimentary now (due to closure of post offices and such ... it's a mess, dont get me started, but getting back to normal)

@joeltunnah 2 года назад

I have several of Cartier-Bresson’s books, and there are very few contrasty photos in them. They’re mostly low contrast, gray tones. He said in an interview that he preferred shooting on overcast days because it had low contrast. He hated photographic “effects”.

@JuanKis 2 года назад

I love your video, is like a class for me. Thank you so much! Where do you buy those Cartier Bresson and other classic photographers' Prints ?

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you. I got the HCB from Peter Fetterman Gallery in LA, he sent out a mail and I was the first one to respond, so when I went there, he had a waiting list of 17 others thad said they wanted it if I didn't take it. The Helmut Newton I got via eBay, one of 10 of that signed edition. Buying signed prints is a good drill in selling signed prints; what I mean is that being a collector gives a good insight into selling to collectors, which you will miss if you don't buy but only sell art.

@carlosoruna7174 Год назад

My roots. M3, M6, 35 and 90 summicrons, a focomat 2c, tri X and Ilford Gallery paper.. digital cant match analog..

@nethbt 2 года назад

Colors can be distracting, which takes something out of a good photo

@ratgirl13 2 года назад

I rarely shoot in black and white, to be honest I don’t care for it-I trained as a painter and love color, black and white (and shades of grey) seems flat to me, that being said I enjoyed your video Thorsten it was informative and interesting. Thank you. Cheers!

@mjvolpe1295 2 года назад

quite basically I find BW photography represents a depiction of the more emotional side of people, objects -where color work is a more objectified, - with a “thing” based bias .. there are exceptions to this guideline however -take, for example the emotional color work of a Saul Leiter .

@andreygladkovsky6637 2 года назад

Dr.Thorsten. You are sharing fundamental knowledge and it is very interesting to me, but without subtitles, the content of your channel has become inaccessible to understanding. I Have to unsubscribe from your mailings in order not to get upset once again. With all due respect to your creativity.

@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard 2 года назад

Thank you Andrey. RU-vid adds subtitles automatically, but they are not that good. Some of the videos have subtitles added by me a little time after they are released; this one too has subtitles now. You can see that small CC symbol under the videos that have subtitles added by me.

@andreygladkovsky6637 2 года назад

@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Thanks :) With great pleasure and interest I looked with subtitles :)

@williaminbody205 2 года назад

Using Legend on the cover shot for the topic is a road to far and offensive. It connects the words black and white to race, not photography. Not good.