9 quick tips for BETTER BLACK & WHITE photos
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- These days, colour is the default from the casual smartphone shooter to the professional photographer with the high-spec DSLR. Black and white has become a filter, an afterthought, a way of 'rescuing' problematic shots.
But black and white is more than an editing technique, it's a completely different way of working. A completely different photographic language.
Making the conscious choice to create black and white photography will help you develop your visual senses and force you to see the world differently.
In this video, I run through 9 tips and techniques to help you develop your black and white photography.
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00:00 Introduction
02:10 PLAN TO SHOOT BLACK AND WHITE
02:52 LOOK FOR THE ABSTRACT
04:00 SHOOT IN RAW OR USE COLOUR FILTERS
04:46 USE LONG EXPOSURES
05:36 DODGE AND BURN
07:09 UNDERSTAND HOW LIGHT IS AFFECTED
07:52 USE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)
08:38 EMPHASISE MOOD
09:15 SUBVERT EXPECTATION - Jak na to + styl
Can't wait to watch this channel blow up! Keep up the good work man
CPTMorningWood Thanks. That would be good. I could dedicate more time to producing content for it then.
Homeboy is blowing up 🚀🚀🚀 His videos are awesome!
hope so
For Pete's sake it is expensive to ride the subway and metro buses in London compared to the USA. It's about triple the cost. Moreover, if one buys a ticket in most metro areas it is good for 24 hours. One just again shows the ticket and gets on again without additional charge.
Very inspirational
This was one of the best, most thoughtful CZcams photography essays I've watched.
I'm so glad my procrastination skills brought me to this video! I'm really excited to start shooting black and white this weekend.
Santiago de Miguel Glad I inspired you.
haha same
Meanwhile in 2099 : I'll shoot b&w this week
+1
2020: ok, I got to get a camera...
I love how you turn regular informative videos and turn them into art.
This channel is my favorite source for photography now. Jamie, your approach is really valued.
It's always nice to switch the brain over to B&W mode and spend the day with it, and since I got your film presets I've enjoyed it even more.
This has to be one of the best ever practical videos on black and white photography. I belong to the old film days when I did my own darkroom processing. This video inspires me to go back there again. Great stuff!
"[Shooting in] black and white is not generally something that we pre plan... it is more than an editing technique; it's more than a creative filter; it's a completely different way of working - a completely different photographic language."
-You
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It is a different way of looking at the world, gauging the tones, measuring the gray scale, balancing out the hot spots, etc. Pre-production, production, and post-production in the darkroom, or on a printer.
Thank you! I'm so glad that there are more of us that love B&W.
you're actually amazing. you have taught me way more about photography then studying as an A LEVEL. well done you deserve so much more appreciation
I also studied photography in my late teens at college. At the time it was just a case of doing a fun course at college and didn't carry on photography after the course. All my work was also black and white producing my own prints in the darkroom. Now I'm getting back into photography 20+ years later I've found myself leaning toward black and white again.
Great informative video.
ATB Steve.
My new favourite presenter. Love his style and method or presenting really sound ideas. He not only knows his stuff, he feels it as well.
This video is gold, I find myself back on this video from time to time.
Oh my goodness, Jamie! This video has so many amazing elements! Humor, art, brilliant writing, concise information, and every single shot is captivating. This is seriously a perfect format, and your style just makes it that much more incredible. I've been a watcher for some time, and I have finally subscribed because of this video. Thank you for putting your time and passion into creating content like this!
Eddie Kirk Thank you for subscribing and for your kind comment. I’ll keep at it with these videos. The more subs and views I get, the more time I can dedicate to getting content out.
Channel 4 should pick him up for short, modern photography slots ;-) #channel4
I'm a very beginner photographer and subconsciously I've never liked black and white. But after watching this video, I think I understand it more, and I feel like giving it a try, eventually. Thank you for explaining not only the techniques, but also the art and meaning behind photography.
For me your channel is the only one that is worth my time on the entire photography genre on CZcams. Always inspiring, always fresh, always provokes to creative thinking. Thanks for that!
I love this. Completely agree, B&W looks like art to me. Just love it.
Just discovered your channel; I've been devouring all your content. I love that you treat the audience with intelligence. Your photos at the end are incredible. Thank you so much!
Man, you are an amazing educator.
You’ve made this a favorite CZcams site for me! Your discussions with us on the many aspects of photography - imparting thought, perspective and a bit of history - hits the bullseye! All to often photography CZcamsrs talk about form but offer little substance, fact but no idea! You’ve given me a lot to consider in many videos and I’ll endeavor to incorporate some of what I’ve learned into my photography, so that it conveys my truth through the lens.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Love your channel! thanks for being you and the help.
Love your work dude. Great teaching, and a profound knowledge beyond the “Instagram photography” that so many bloggers have. Cheers man!
Brilliant explainer, thank you so much!
Finally a video that doesn't treat me as an idiot or brand new to photography - a heart felt thank you. Like you, I learned B&W on an old fully manual camera - 20 years later I'm picking up the same camera and shooting film again - it feels good and videos like yours really help inspire me to do it again
I couldn’t agree more about you attitudes to black and white, I partially returned to shooting HP5+ and FP4+. I don’t believe either film or digital is better than the other, but I believe in different situation one is better than the other. Urban, street, outdoor portraits can look better on film, but in a studio working tethered or for wildlife with fast FPS it has to be digital. For landscapes it’s a mixture the film reciprocity rule is a handicap but the colours you can get even with colour negative film can be stunning. Great video, and I would never have guessed it’s 20 years since you were at college.
I think Mark has nailed it here. Some of us still shoot and develop B&W film so we kinda have to "see" in both colour for our digital work and in light and dark for film work. A lot, as you know, depends on the hows and whys of development. Your points are all very valid, great informative vid.
I miss tmax 3200 and Ilford 400. ilford has better tones than Kodak 400 that was developed in color printers.
Studio,architecture and landscape - film
Sport, and wildlife - digital.Anyway,these days people don't know or think about film is already finished story and they are wrong.Film is still the best!Keep film alive.Go and shoot film.
Great Vlogtorial here! I have been hesitant to use some techniques here but this has inspired me to shoot more b&w. Thanks!
honestly, best photography related channel on youtube. Information is super concentrated, clear and the video length is just on point. amazing, keep it up, Jamie!
Excellent tips, thank you for sharing!
Walking around Chinatown in Bangkok yesterday I couldn't take a decent photo. On a whim I switched to Acros film simulation on my Fuji Xt2 and the world transformed. I took a dozen shots that I loved. Watching your video today has been incredibly helpful; entertaining and informative as usual. I'm keen to go out and do it better now. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Good advice. I'm liking your videos. Thanks man
Thanks.
what a great master class. Thank you.
Excellent presentation! TY!
because of this one video i am subscribing. thanks for helping me understand how to approach black & white photography a bit better
How is he not as popular as McKinnon? His content and production are better imo
I find Peter McKinnon very annoying and I think he’s pretty overrated
Brilliant video, thank you 👍
I've just started to get into photography and you have no idea how excited this video has made me feel to go out and try something new! Thank you so much
Absolutely first class Jamie. Many, many thanks.
Keep up the good work. I often go out with a virtual roll of 24 shots and shoot jpeg in black and white profile and manual mode. I don't check what I shoot and go home when I have finished my virtual roll. It's fun and takes me back to the last century.
Great idea and thanks I will try that sometime, shooting black and white 35mm in college now, this will be good for when I can't afford rolls of film and I have my dslr there to make use of
Im going to try this idea
great self exercise/project. Makes you re-live the "good ole days". i think I need to do this. this also keeps you inspired and the shoot SHORTER and not go into being an all day session where you can get distracted or get sad. better to be short and sweet and get back and review the work, find your weaknesses, and fix the problem before the next days'/weeks mini session. Plan / Do / Check Act ( the basic Process Improvement Cycle)
You can shoot in RAW+JPEG on many mid/upperend cameras to get the JPG on the screen but still have the RAW to be able to edit later fully if you find you got a winner ( or not) :)
wish I had the discipline to stick to that! but i usually cant help myself but take and extra 2-3 frames on digital "just in case" one change is slightly better
Nostalgia overload! Same history of a kid in high school and college in the latter 90s, shooting B&W, developing in the darkroom, seeing color as a point-and-shoot or for studios shooting products for magazines. Thanks for the feels, bro!
this has been the best video i have seen about B&W, many thanks for this.
The start was so beautiful, I got goosebumps. One of the best youtube videos ever made. Loved the examples.
If color in the frame isn't contributing, I prefer B & W.
Love what you said about abstracts. I'm always looking for the abstract in day to day objects and places too.
Could you please tell more about tones in B & W (like where you talked using a blue filter for the sky to bring out details)
I almost never hear pro photographers about it.
Great video as always. Love your channel.
Kristoffer Nico Valencia thank you
One of the best tutorials on the subject.
Great tips Jamie. Thanks for sharing this awesome video.
Great video, I love B/W over Color and can relate to your tips.
Color can emphasize a subject but can also be a distraction of the subject if something is more obtrusive by color in the frame than the subject itself. Often you're better of with B/W. Also in the winter time when colors are more shades of grey, you are better of with completely B/W.
Pity you don't make video's more frequently but anyway thanks for sharing.
Love it
RS Thanks. I’m trying to get more content out. Just really busy with work and kids. More coming soon…
You sir, have just won my subscription!
Very well made clip, lovely photographs and awesome quotes.
Bravo
Miriam Schoon Thank you.
OMG the landscape is soooooo beautiful
Great video Jamie!
Thanks for that.
Awesome storytelling mate! Cheers from The Netherlands!
Great video Jamie. I'd 'forgotten' how creative B&W can be.
Thanks. I like how BW cuts down your options and makes you see in only light and dark. This 'cutting it down to basics' thing seems to have become a theme in my videos. I must do an overly complex one to balance it out.
Thank you. This video is very helpful.
I love how you explain things in your videos! So much learning here! Not just skills and tutorials in photography, but also lessons as a photographer... As a person... Can't put it in words really... But thank you so much!
“Black and white is for art”
Dawn WWI looking hella cool
"..a completely different photographic language."
THANK YOU !..
Excellent. You get to the point but with expressive nuances that make it clear.
Thanks for sharing this, just what I needed to kick start my black and white journey.
Amazing! Really liked this one! I fully enjoy your sence of humour!
TeenyChannel Thanks. Glad my sense of humour is shared.
This is an awesome video! I started shooting b&w film a few years ago which has helped me visualize scenes in b&w, but I realize there's a lot I can do to improve my photos, and these tips will definitely help me heaps with that. Also, the Barbican looks like a dream spot to go shooting! Would love to plan a visit there some day
Thank you. The Barbican is a crazy place. It’s basically a housing complex with a concert hall, cinemas, a library, gallery space, indoor gardens etc. but it’s this huge maze of walkways and brutalist high rises. It always seems so quiet and empty which is a rarity for central London.
Great tutorial/presentation. Found it very helpful.
Another outstanding video!! Great work Jamie!
Shes precious!!
Really good stuff. Mature content but irreverent presentation works well. Your style is developing into v watchable . Next big thing 😁
Dynamite ideas and images...plus great music to match. Thanks.
These tips helps a lot to rethink my current knowledge of taking a shot, thank you!
Ansel Adams would have been the worlds foremost PS junkie... layers and all the tools available for control/manipulation... add in the high dynamic range of digital captures - so much he had to work around/with on film/paper limitations, developer and expansion/contractions... printing down, lifting up darks... he'd probably have files with a thousand layers and merging many captures in his own flavor of hdr (minus the tone mapping) - to get it *just* right... 'be a heck of an IG feed to follow ;) Good set of points on BW and a very nicely edited vid - Lyle
So true!
Adams's film has so much more dynamic range than digital, it's not even a close comparison.
Yes. I saw a show years ago that showed some prints straight from his negs. Great shots but tonally it really showed how much of his magic was in the darkroom.
actually he'd be a Lightroom junkie as Lr is for true Photographers. Ps is for image manipulators and graphic artists :)
@@sjsphotog he'd be using luminosity masks by the dozens all over the place and LR even with the recent masking add, would never take him there :)
I bought my first camera more than 50 years ago when I was in grade school. For decades I *only* shot black and white because B&W film was cheaper and was all I could afford. With this being said, this is some extremely solid advice! I have been shooting digital for more than 20 years now and that means ... unless you can afford a Leica ;-) ... you're shooting color and then turning out B&W images. That leads me to piece of advice #10, that might actually be a cousin to one these nine, but regardless, here I go: when you process your images, turn them into the most pleasing, to you, color images. ~Then~ covert them to B&W and go from there. I have found that that approach reduces the amount of time you're likely to spend finding the right way to go with your images. FWIW, YMMV. ;-)
namberak Good advice. Thanks.
Wonderful tips! Thank you for your time and great info!
Mono reprograms the eye towards tone, texture, contrast, juxtaposition. The strength of seeing in grey tones and choosing pictorial elements that generate depth and plasticity is inspiring. Just walking around becomes an exciting collection of scenes to frame and capture. Shooting becomes a way of entering a dialogue with the behaviour of lenses and filters and how light transforms or reveals surfaces. Thanks for another great video. Your ten points are on point and each of your ten points spawn a range of new directions to explore.
OMG I just bought a Pentax P50 last week! haha....top video btw
Well done. Some truly insightful content. Sometimes youtube “tips” videos can be a bit slapdash but this one is really thoughtful. Thanks for that. :)
timskinnercanada Thank you. I’m trying to offer something slightly different in my videos. There’s lots of great CZcams tutorials out there, but they can sometimes be a bit tech-heavy and concentrate on the _what_ and the _how,_ but miss out on the _why._
Jamie Windsor Good strategy. I really think you’re onto something.
Excellent! Great photographer and teacher.
I love how super interactive this video is! Music choice is apt and how you explain things is great! Thank you for creating!
When I was in college as an art major one of the painting teachers would not allow students to use color for the first term. Students painted still life paintings with silvery looking tea pots, spoons, and glass vases until they got the tricks of using value. I was always a better draftsman than painter and I still draw because it teaches you to see and teaches you how to adjust values to increase the illusion of depth--something photographers take for granted, but painters and draftsman painstakingly achieve with magician-like tricks of the eye. When I want to shoot B&W I use my Infrared camera with a 830nm filter. Once you shoot IR you’ll never think of B&W in the same way again.
Glen Bledsoe I’ve never shot infrared but always wanted to. Thought about buying an old 5D and getting it converted once or twice.
Unless you want to play with all those funny colors I would recommend getting the 830nm filter. I know people recommend getting filters that blend in some visible light and convert from there to B&W, but my experience is that 830nm gives better, richer, silvery tones not matched by the other filters. You’ll find out that IR captures the world in often unexpected ways. It sees through sunglasses, through layers of old varnish in furniture to reveal beautiful wood grain and in some individuals reveals delicate blood vessels just below the skin not unpleasantly. It's great for street photography and of course landscape. Because IR passes through some kinds of coatings IR light tends to bounce around inside zoom lenses and creates over the top lens flairs. I rarely have this problem shooting with primes, though. I don’t think you'll be sorry once you give it a try. Some explanations make the process seem more difficult than it really is.
Bad HDR halos are the worst thing to happen to photography. Not even unnecessary over-use of the clarity slider comes a close second.
のぢGrey I never touch that clarity slider. I hate it.
I saw a Lightroom tutorial and a kid cranked up the clarity to 90 and I clicked off the video.
HDR is a plague. 9 times out of 10, people overdo it.
Love your videos. Excellently edited and full of wisdom. No b-roll nonsense or blabbering about stuff that has nothing to do with the title.
the starting portion dude amazing. Thnaks for the amazing tips
Informative. Thank you Jamie!
This is one of the best videos explaining black & white photography.
absolutely amazing advice, alsor eally love your photos at the end, especially the really sharp pointed building!!
Fantastic examples! What a great vid 💎
One of the best tuts I've seen. You make an interesting subject even more interesting.
Genius move for showing the magnum photos test prints to explain your point; this could be a part a dodge and burn video in itself. Really like your video and content style and it adds a much needed freshness the the youtube photo channel world.
Sometimes I forget your channels exists. but every time I run into, I'm always glad I did. You have such a great idea and vast knowledge of how photography really works.
Thank you for 9 helpful hints about black and white photography!
Your explanations are like poetry. Awesome video man!
This video is awesome! Not only the information but the editing, the Jamie's attitude - great work, thanks!
Very thoughtful and well composed! Thank you
Love the videos you have been posting recently - very polished and informative!
Good as always. I like the fact that you combine the technical and artistic in your videos, which is the thing that I like about photography. Keep up the good work Jamie.
Your videos are my favorite of all the photography related videos I've seen. Not only do you have very interesting points to make, but your editing is excellent.
So beautifully done. Great sense of humor, great timing. Thanks so much for making this.
Great, practical suggestions. Thank you.
Your editing instinct is awesome and inspiring
This is the best video I have EVER seen on black and white. It reminded me of doing b&w film photography in high school, which I miss SO bad! THANK YOU!! Thank you for reminding me to get back to what I really love ❤️
Awesome production and thanks for the tips!
your example images are wonderful! thanks
Omg absolutely loved the tips and the style. So good!
super useful and informative! and awesome music as well - thanks Jamie
Those are some great shots at the end. Thanks for all the advice!
real quality video here mate. Especially drawing from history and showing practical examples from the past. Really well done!