5 Tips for Black and White Photography
5 Tips for Black and White Photography
Street photographer Hugh Brownstone shares his tips for shooting black and white photos with your digital camera. Whether you’re taking portraits, cityscapes or architectural photos, these techniques will help you get started!
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0:00 Intro
0:18 Use Technology
0:44 How to Expose
1:28 Capture in Color
1:48 Think of the Edit
2:14 Where to Be
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Personally, I thought that was rubbish 🤷♂️ Even if it was being aimed at beginner’s.
Tip #1, high-resolving Lenses on almost any Camera Body.
Nice advice, and very concise. Regarding MF and EVF’s, what about bracketing, just to be sure? Thank you very much!
Maria, once again: how lovely! 😊🖖🏻
Thanks Hugh !
Nice video and love that Hugh presented not only these tips but multiple different camera bodies/lenses are represented.
the last tip is the hardest probably can never get
Not just for beginners. I shot b&w on film 50 years ago, now I’m learning on a mirrorless camera. Thanks.
What’s the music that’s playing?
Hi Mr.Brownstone. thanks for the amazing video. I’d like to ask you an important question: what camera would you suggest to a beginner? Without spending a fortune.
Thanks 🙏🙏🙏
I find I only resort to B&W when my color compositions is horrible. Usually in super high contrasty scenes. That and/or my ISO is too high and I need a way to fix that mess. Otherwise, B&W is in a weird space. It can look absolutely great. But I have to want to look at it to appreciate it. Not something I want to go out of my way to see.
Ok here we go! My favorite camera is my (2004) Konica-Minolta A2 Bridge camera. It has a 7x optical zoom GT lens. (Good Glass) Yes the CCD sensor is only 2/3 – 8.2 megapixels. But it uses an EVF which when I set the mode to B&W, that is what I see through the view finder. You could say it is a Mirrorless camera from (2004). Takes great photos! Yes it is a dinosaur, but I still love it.
Looking at Urban Photography in B&W, everyday angles & Shapes, maybe people, etc. please provide your advice
Thank you for providing such useful tips. Everyone else tends to give the obvious. Greatly appreciated your tips.
great vid i only have a cannon pocket camera any tips on how to stop the sky in my pics coming out over exposed . cheers and well done to all the people in your pics for posing and letting you take their pics
As always interesting and informative. I haven’t shot B&W since returning from overseas in 1969 with a Minolta SRT 101. Definately will explore the possiblities. Thanks for the inspiration!
Excellent
These are GREAT SHOTS!
Yes! I shoot MF w the 100s and the 50r. I almost pulled the trigger on a Leica Monachrom with a Summi lens. Instead I developed a Leicaesque BnW preset for myself and that’s what I now try and shoot on with my 50r.
Nice one!
Tip number 6. If any ‘real’, ‘proper’ (probably film) photographer says you converted a colour picture to black and white to make it more interesting. Ignore them.
Agreed, I always have a histogram in my EVF, exposure metering is not good enough.
Just get a Pentax K3 III Monochrome … and You will learn quickly just by doing.
Awesome 🙂
Thank you! Very helpful tips
Thanks for the tips, very useful from an experienced photographer. I guess the last two aren’t specific to B&W though. What about using red, green and yellow in-camera-digital and glass filters please?
This definitely are helpful. It’s giving me great ideas. Thank you.
When I"m shooting B&W, I’m doing it on my M10M 99.999% of the time, or maybe film.
Yeah, you don’t have the colors to adjust in post, but I just put a yellow or orange filter on and I’m good to go.
That M10M is not only amazing with respect to the gradations of luminance you can capture, but also is one heck of a low light monster.
Tipps # 1 and 3 – one of those "ah-ha! moments" in learning. Thank you.
Love your tip #5. 😉
Have Nikon digital and a regular nikon how to set for black and white
very good tips
Excellent, thank you!
AWESOME TIPS!🤘🏾🤘🏾
That’s an interesting camera he’s using, a "Lecia". Not heard of that brand before.
can you set the evf black and white on sony a1?
Liked this video and the 5 tips.
Great tips, thx for sharing your expertise and knowledge
Great comment on using your eyes and not the meter. That’s my problem !
How to apply rule #1 with an X-T5?? I can shoot B&W while saving both jpg & RAW; or toggle Custom 1 with B&W on to choose and off to shoot; but don’t see how to make the EVF B&W while saving color.
Thanks for this. Concise and useful.
Yes, good tips. Interestingly, I had just started to see that using the EVF instead of the meter can result in a better picture. But perhaps not always. Lately, I have been taking two shots of the same scene, one with the meter and the second with my eye. I am somewhat surprised at how often I like what the meter does. My eye tends to darken the scene. Sometime too much I think.
You can’t shoot in color and see on the camera in B&W. Cameras don’t work that way. RAW is always in color. Jpeg can be set to Color or monochrome but not both.
Nice content, but i need more elaborations on tips no 3 please. i dont really get the idea. Thanks
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Those photos are awesome.