The Secrets to Black & White Street Photography
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- This video is all about black and white street photography where I talk through 9 of my best tips you can use to level-up your b&w street photography.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Why Black & White?
0:59 - Black & White 2 Ways
1:39 - Tips
1:49 - Minimalism
2:15 - Contrast
2:38 - Mood
2:57 - Shapes & Framing
3:15 - Subjects & Details
3:34 - Archive Dive
4:03 - Settings
4:25 - Light & Shadow
4:46 - Editing
9:25 - Bonus Tip 1
9:47 - Bonus Tip 2
10:20 - Outro - Zábava
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I invested in a lightly used Leica Q2 Monochrom, which creates beautiful B&W files!
Awesome! Hope it’s worth the $$$! 🤭
I had one and regret selling it. It take’s amazing photos and you can crop in loads.
One of the more useful videos for us folk who want to get started on B&W.
Thanks, glad to hear it!
Great advice and tips, Tim! I would never have gone back to a black and white TV, but black and white Photography is a wonderful experience, which is continuing to grow on me! 😍 🙏🙏😎
Thanks Jonathan! Yeah I always thought b&w was looking at photography backwards, or just for the idea of trying to be ‘arty’ but the more I’ve shot in b&w over time the more I’ve loved it!
Thanks for this Tim. I really liked how you demonstrated your approach to editing in black and white. A really helpful video.
Hey, Linda! Thanks a lot, really glad you enjoyed the video and found it useful 😊
I love upping the clarity to the max too when post processing for black and white.
I also like more sad and darker stories for bnw street
Yeah definitely, b&w is great for that to really dial up the mood 🙏🏻
Thank you Tim for another exceptional video. It's clear you put a lot of work into your videos. Some great ideas in this video. Thank you so much :)
Thank you, Marios! I really appreciate that 🙏🏻
I started to learn black and white photography using mobile editing application Snapseed back in 2012, from roughly 2021 change into Lightroom for Android since my current smartphone can rake raw photos. The learning process with Snapseed was very improrant as i learned to experiment with highlight and shadow. Yes I do enjoy black and white photography
Lovely, clear video, Tim. You have a real gift for demystifying a potentially daunting subject. Many thanks indeed!
Thank you so much! Glad you think so and you found the video helpful 🙏🏻
Thank you, Tim, for every advice you post in youtube. I just follow you at instagram. To see your work and inspire me to continue shoot at streets. And thank you again for the camera advice. 🙏👍
Hey, Richard! Thanks for the lovely comment. I’m so happy to hear you’re enjoying my channel and fine it useful 😊
Awesome video! Thanks Tim. I've been struggling a bit with finding my editing style for black and white - there really are quite a few different looks you can achieve in black and white, contrary to what most people may think. This video has given me some good ideas to work from. Cheers!
Thanks a lot! Really glad to hear you found the video useful - happy shooting 📸
Thanks Tim - another really helpful video - clearly explained
Thanks Patricia! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I really enjoyed watching this Tim, and looking at all of the example photos.
Particualry the one at 0:19 👏 😮
Thank you, Courts! Really happy to hear that mate - as always!! 🙏🏻
Extremely clear and precise
Cheers, glad you think so!
Just curious, has anyone tried an IR converted camera for street photography? I wonder if it works. Loved the video, just getting into B&W!
Powerful impressive work loved it
Thanks so much! That’s very kind 🙏🏻
Thanks for the great tips
My pleasure!
Excellent video Tim - thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love shooting in a tweaked Acros film simulation setting on my Fuji X100V and find that the images need very little processing in Lightroom 👍
Thanks Andy! Really appreciate that mate. Sounds good - I need to start experimenting with the Fuji simulations more!
@@timjamiesonphotos Yes, that’s the beauty of shooting with Fujifilm cameras - their film simulations are really excellent!
Tanks for these clear and helpful suggestions. As a big fan of minimalism, thinking of doing some telephoto street work with the 70-300... Black & white might be good partner for some (all?) of those images.
Thanks a lot my friend! I’ve been living with my 35 f/2 on the camera for all of my work recently. I really want to purchase the 23mm though to experiment shooting with that focal length, as I’ve never really shot that wide before. Would also be really cool to get the 90mm and try some super compressed scenes and details, gotta get saving 😅. But yeah I think telephoto in black and white could be really cool, looking forward to seeing what you come up with 👌🏻
@@timjamiesonphotos I think it’s so cool how we all see/prefer different fields of view and composing foundations. Also, really glad there are so many options for lenses now on the X-System. A lens I’m really curious about for street work is the Viltrox 75mm f/1.4…
Yeah 100%!
thanks for your tips but i never convert a color image by desaturate it. I mainly use the specific tools provide by Lightroom under the Black and White tab. Using this method give me more controls of the mix of the different colors to achive my BW image. If i don't use this method i strart with a BW profile
Thanks for the comment, Gustave :)
The Marc Bolan image.. personally I thought looked great in colour, those few 'pops' of colour that you thought were distracting could have been enhanced for bigger 'pop' (no pun intended re pop) but hey, art is like wine, very subjective!
Hey man! Yeah totally agree, it’s just down to personal preference at the end of the day really. No right and wrong, one person’s garbage is another’s treasure as they say
How about shooting in black and White mode on your camera? Or is better shoot in colour then edit?
Either, whatever works best for you
What’s missing in a photo that makes you want to add grain? I’m trying to understand why it’s desirable
Texture, nostalgia, taking away the perfect sharpness of modern digital cameras and a bunch of other reasons - personally I just like the aesthetic on some images and feel grain adds to the mood and overall impact of the photo :)
With the exception of a couple of cameras on the market, you will have a color sensor. If you wish to see some B&W JPG, just set the camera to shoot RAW+JPG while using Monochrome for image style. In every case you are editing from a color sensor to B&W. I have done many edits of RAW to B&W with great results. I don't see a problem. Color in most cases has benefits rather than being a distraction. Nothing wrong with going out with the intent to fine those images which will look better in B&W, but you might miss out on a splendid color shot in the process. Thus I have rarely ever set a camera to B&W JPG. Now if I bought a Leica Monochrome imaging camera, I would be in that game only. I think they are $8K . There are the masters of color and then again those of B&W, and those which do them both. In the modern world of digital we have the opportunity to do both in every shoot. And no, your mind will not explode in the process. Hopefully not. I really like how an image responds to editing, with just some basic tools being used -- letting the software do some its own magical choices. I take it blown highlights can be a real issue, but then again, it is with color JPG too.
Like I said in the video, there are two main ways to shooting b&w and it’s up to each individual person how they want to go about doing it 😁
Are you a Faizal Westcott copycat?
I like Faisal’s work along with appreciating 100s of other photographers. What makes you think I’m copying him?
@@timjamiesonphotos I am pretty sure you will know that ;) and Faizal is with a Z not with S…
@@MrSolidairI’ve been aware of his YT channel for about a year and I’ve been taking photos for 6 years 🤷🏻♂️ - I draw inspiration from heaps of photographers. What’s your problem anyways? 😂
In the UK, B&W works much better than colour. We just don't have the North American qulaity of light, nor do we have those vivid colours that you find in New York or San Fransico, or the subtle pastel colours of LA. Personally I am not all that keen on including a single human in the photos. More often than not they end up being treated as a prop. I much prefer to see the interaction between a number of people. This tells a story and is much more engaging, than the Fan Ho-esque lone figure in the contrasty light. Your photography is good quite good though. Just one piece of advice, if you want to make your photographs ' grainy ' like film, do it in post using a software that can emulate proper grain. Digital noise is very different to film grain and it just doesn't add anything to the photo.
Thanks for the comment! I definitely disagree that in the UK b&w works better than colour - plenty of cities in the UK are full of colour, and you don’t have to shoot b&w at all 🤭. Also street photography is subjective just like any art form, but I appreciate your pov. Also, no offence but I’m not looking for advice 😊
@@timjamiesonphotos Looks like you have all the answers. Have a nice day.
@@lensman5762 just answering your comment honestly 🤷🏻
I’m disagreeing too! The UK is full of stunning colour and beautiful light.
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