I've been hooked on black & white photography since I was about 12 years old. I just love the way that the 'mess' of excess information just gets abstracted away, leaving only form and texture behind. Still, it is definitely much easier to create moody results than happybouncy images -- for the latter, colour still wins!
I longed, back then, for something like photoshop and modern digital photography. I used to spend hours painstakingly printing my own photos in the darkroom, selecting the right grade of paper, dodging and burning, then spending yet more time hand retouching the final prints with a scalpel and a very fine paintbrush. Now, all the things I dreamed of being able to do are relatively straightforward. I can now do something in 15 minutes that would have originally taken me a whole weekend. Yeeha!
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I've been hooked on black & white photography since I was about 12 years old. I just love the way that the 'mess' of excess information just gets abstracted away, leaving only form and texture behind. Still, it is definitely much easier to create moody results than happybouncy images -- for the latter, colour still wins!
I longed, back then, for something like photoshop and modern digital photography. I used to spend hours painstakingly printing my own photos in the darkroom, selecting the right grade of paper, dodging and burning, then spending yet more time hand retouching the final prints with a scalpel and a very fine paintbrush. Now, all the things I dreamed of being able to do are relatively straightforward. I can now do something in 15 minutes that would have originally taken me a whole weekend. Yeeha!