Most people (including me most of the time) prefer pictures of flowers to be in color. What’s the point of black and white photos of beautifully colored things? For me, it’s a chance to learn how to use a monochrome camera, how the camera picks up the color in an inverse way and captures the beauty of a garden differently.
The second is to trigger the imagination. We all know what beautiful flowers look like, but the monochrome forces us to consider them in a new way. Flowers are beautiful either way, but they also can help me understand how a new camera processes light and shadow.
I do water colors paintings and I often take a picture I want to paint and change it to monochrome so I can see the contrast of lights and darks,
I actually like monochrome pictures because focus more on the subject than the colors. It gives pictures an air of mystery,
Yes,
Black & white photography asks us to apply our imagination to the subject at hand & visualize it as we imbue it with color painted to our preference.
I like the concept;
We are part of the creativity of the photo before us.
Well done,Jon !
Thanks Ana..
You love taking photos of the Amish clothes line. Do they have some kind of washing machine? Or do they use a scrub board and basin? With all the laundry on the line, the ladies must be pooped by the end of washday.
No electric machines of any kind..they use scrub boards…
when im designing a quilt I take b&w pics of the layouts to test the color values…
A landscaper I know, when asked to update a garden, will take B&W photos to get a sense of shape and size. Amazing how many gardens are boring without color.