: I have almost no experience using B&W film. Does anyone have any tips
: for someone who has spent almost all his time working with negative
: color films?
:
: They are wanting some indoor portraits - I'll be using electronic flash
: and umbrellas for that. Standard portrait stuff. They are also wanting
: some outside shots done and this is what I'm concerned about. We have
: many suitable spots around here for quality scenery so that's not an
: issue, but I'm just unable to visualize how things are going to look in
: B&W.
Photography? Phot*graphy??? Are you sure you're on the right mailing list?
It's only cars and politics here, you know! ;)
Ok, ok, you're apologized for now, but don't let it happen again! ;) ;) ;)
One of the easy modern ways to start learning pre-visualizing how things
look in B&W is to load your favourite digitized images in a photo editing
program, and convert it to 256 grayscale. Then start to play with the
brightness and contrast adjustments.
B&W photography is all about shapes, contrast, lighting,
politics & cars [<= obl. OM content]. ;) ;)
There are many ways to influence contrast; some of them are made in the
darkroom but even without having one you have a selection of film and
filters.
Filters are very important in B&W photography; the most frequently used are
yellow and orange, available in different densities.
Here's a primer in B&W filters:
http://www.acecam.com/magazine/filters-faq.html
The main thing to achieve is a nice contrast between your subjects and the
background. What B&W filters do is to make subjects of their own color
lighter, and of the opposite color darker. A green filter for instance will
make leafs very light, a red filter will make skies very dark.
Ok, enough with this boring B&W primer, back to our favourite subject:
politics. Whoever wins the election of the president of the United States,
he will be a moron.
hnz
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