{"id":17699,"date":"2017-01-18T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17699"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T21:30:56","slug":"why-black-white-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/why-black-white-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Black & White Photography?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some readers might wonder why I persist with traditional black & white photography, when modern digital imaging is easier and doesn\u2019t involve all that messing about with chemistry.<\/p>\n

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Detailed view of an old plow. Exposed on Ilford HP5 with a Nikon F3 fitted with a Nikkor f1.8 105mm lens. Lens set at f1.8 for minimum depth of field.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My old Nikons were paid for many years ago. The cost of a roll of HP5 is about $6, and the processing costs are pennies per frame. True, my labor costs are much greater per image, but I feel the results justify the effort. (An yes, I also made a digital photograph of this scene).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The reasons are simple:<\/p>\n

I like tradition. I\u2019ve always made black & white photos and processed my own film. While there have been gaps in my black & white work (usually owing to a lack of adequate facilities), I like the continuity by occasionally working with a consistent medium.<\/p>\n

My black & white efforts can achieve desired results that may not be equivalent to images made digitally.<\/p>\n

Because traditional black & white photography is more difficult, I feel it hones my image making skills.<\/p>\n

I process my negatives in an archival fashion and I scan them digitally. This leaves me with greater chances that the images will survive for generations than images strictly stored on ephemeral digital media.<\/p>\n

Some years ago, someone asked me if I had adjusted to the switch to digital photography. I said, \u201cI still haven\u2019t adjusted to the switch to color!\u201d<\/p>\n

However, just because I continue with the time-honored tradition of black & white photography, doesn\u2019t prevent me from also working digitally.<\/p>\n

As regular viewers know, I routinely expose, present (and occasionally publish) modern digital images. In fact I find that two types of photography complement each other nicely.<\/p>\n

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Some readers might wonder why I persist with traditional black & white photography, when modern digital imaging is easier and doesn\u2019t involve all that messing about with chemistry. The reasons are simple: I like tradition. I\u2019ve always made black & white photos and processed my own film. While there have been gaps in my black … Continue reading Why Black & White Photography?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3982,3814,4017,26,3606,3116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601349.jpg?fit=1800%2C1110","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17711,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions\/17711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}