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Excellent video Tim - thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love shooting in a tweaked Acros film simulation setting on my Fuji X100V and find that the images need very little processing in Lightroom 👍
Tanks for these clear and helpful suggestions. As a big fan of minimalism, thinking of doing some telephoto street work with the 70-300... Black & white might be good partner for some (all?) of those images.
Thanks a lot my friend! I’ve been living with my 35 f/2 on the camera for all of my work recently. I really want to purchase the 23mm though to experiment shooting with that focal length, as I’ve never really shot that wide before. Would also be really cool to get the 90mm and try some super compressed scenes and details, gotta get saving 😅. But yeah I think telephoto in black and white could be really cool, looking forward to seeing what you come up with 👌🏻
@@timjamiesonphotos I think it’s so cool how we all see/prefer different fields of view and composing foundations. Also, really glad there are so many options for lenses now on the X-System. A lens I’m really curious about for street work is the Viltrox 75mm f/1.4…
thanks for your tips but i never convert a color image by desaturate it. I mainly use the specific tools provide by Lightroom under the Black and White tab. Using this method give me more controls of the mix of the different colors to achive my BW image. If i don't use this method i strart with a BW profile
Great advice and tips, Tim! I would never have gone back to a black and white TV, but black and white Photography is a wonderful experience, which is continuing to grow on me! 😍 🙏🙏😎
Thanks Jonathan! Yeah I always thought b&w was looking at photography backwards, or just for the idea of trying to be ‘arty’ but the more I’ve shot in b&w over time the more I’ve loved it!
Awesome video! Thanks Tim. I've been struggling a bit with finding my editing style for black and white - there really are quite a few different looks you can achieve in black and white, contrary to what most people may think. This video has given me some good ideas to work from. Cheers!
I started to learn black and white photography using mobile editing application Snapseed back in 2012, from roughly 2021 change into Lightroom for Android since my current smartphone can rake raw photos. The learning process with Snapseed was very improrant as i learned to experiment with highlight and shadow. Yes I do enjoy black and white photography
The Marc Bolan image.. personally I thought looked great in colour, those few 'pops' of colour that you thought were distracting could have been enhanced for bigger 'pop' (no pun intended re pop) but hey, art is like wine, very subjective!
Hey man! Yeah totally agree, it’s just down to personal preference at the end of the day really. No right and wrong, one person’s garbage is another’s treasure as they say
Texture, nostalgia, taking away the perfect sharpness of modern digital cameras and a bunch of other reasons - personally I just like the aesthetic on some images and feel grain adds to the mood and overall impact of the photo :)
@@MrSolidairI’ve been aware of his YT channel for about a year and I’ve been taking photos for 6 years 🤷🏻♂️ - I draw inspiration from heaps of photographers. What’s your problem anyways? 😂
With the exception of a couple of cameras on the market, you will have a color sensor. If you wish to see some B&W JPG, just set the camera to shoot RAW+JPG while using Monochrome for image style. In every case you are editing from a color sensor to B&W. I have done many edits of RAW to B&W with great results. I don't see a problem. Color in most cases has benefits rather than being a distraction. Nothing wrong with going out with the intent to fine those images which will look better in B&W, but you might miss out on a splendid color shot in the process. Thus I have rarely ever set a camera to B&W JPG. Now if I bought a Leica Monochrome imaging camera, I would be in that game only. I think they are $8K . There are the masters of color and then again those of B&W, and those which do them both. In the modern world of digital we have the opportunity to do both in every shoot. And no, your mind will not explode in the process. Hopefully not. I really like how an image responds to editing, with just some basic tools being used -- letting the software do some its own magical choices. I take it blown highlights can be a real issue, but then again, it is with color JPG too.
In the UK, B&W works much better than colour. We just don't have the North American qulaity of light, nor do we have those vivid colours that you find in New York or San Fransico, or the subtle pastel colours of LA. Personally I am not all that keen on including a single human in the photos. More often than not they end up being treated as a prop. I much prefer to see the interaction between a number of people. This tells a story and is much more engaging, than the Fan Ho-esque lone figure in the contrasty light. Your photography is good quite good though. Just one piece of advice, if you want to make your photographs ' grainy ' like film, do it in post using a software that can emulate proper grain. Digital noise is very different to film grain and it just doesn't add anything to the photo.
Thanks for the comment! I definitely disagree that in the UK b&w works better than colour - plenty of cities in the UK are full of colour, and you don’t have to shoot b&w at all 🤭. Also street photography is subjective just like any art form, but I appreciate your pov. Also, no offence but I’m not looking for advice 😊
Thank you, Tim, for every advice you post in youtube. I just follow you at instagram. To see your work and inspire me to continue shoot at streets. And thank you again for the camera advice. 🙏👍
