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Chaps,
Would welcome some C & C on these shots. Been playing with my new camera on a recent weekend in the big smoke. Must confess I am new to DSLR and have they are straight from the camera as I have no Photoshop or anything so might be a bit rough and ready, but I'm keen to learn.
Cheers,
Andy
Battersea Power Station looms on the horizon from our residence.
Outside the Albert Hall.
F1 display at the Science Museum.
Rocket.
Aero engines.
Hurricane and Spitfire.
Ice skating at the Natural History Museum.
Cabinet War Rooms. This was drilled by hand.
Cinema on Fulham Road.
My better half in an icy Hyde Park.
London's finest tattoo studio.
My favourite of the weekend.
Chilling with friends.
Japanese food.
Would welcome some C & C on these shots. Been playing with my new camera on a recent weekend in the big smoke. Must confess I am new to DSLR and have they are straight from the camera as I have no Photoshop or anything so might be a bit rough and ready, but I'm keen to learn.
Cheers,
Andy
Battersea Power Station looms on the horizon from our residence.
Outside the Albert Hall.
F1 display at the Science Museum.
Rocket.
Aero engines.
Hurricane and Spitfire.
Ice skating at the Natural History Museum.
Cabinet War Rooms. This was drilled by hand.
Cinema on Fulham Road.
My better half in an icy Hyde Park.
London's finest tattoo studio.
My favourite of the weekend.
Chilling with friends.
Japanese food.
Couple of observations about B&W (to my eye at least).
Firstly, B&W does not automatically a good picture make. We see the world in colour and there are a lot of subjects where colour really does suit a picture better - for example, the tattoo place sign (tattoos are all in colour, hence I assume the sign is colourful ?), the christmas lights, and the scene in the pub - they all cry out to be in colour to capture the moment as it was. See also the crockery in the last picture and the monument if it was shot against a bold blue sky ?
B&W also works well with high contract scenes, so while the one hurricane / spitfire and the F1 car don't really work for me, the one outside the Natural History Museum very much does. As does the one of the theatre (?) at night.
Now, somewhat hypocritically I spent today at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park shooting with B&W film, but was looking for contrasty situations where light and shade were playing off against one another - that's where I find I prefer B&W images, but I could also have taken lots of colour photos today to show an entirely different 'view' of the place.
So, while there is no right or wrong or good or bad, you maybe want to think about why you feel a particular scene might work in B&W rather than colour.
You've got some nice pictures in there though, and would be nice to see the colour versions.
Firstly, B&W does not automatically a good picture make. We see the world in colour and there are a lot of subjects where colour really does suit a picture better - for example, the tattoo place sign (tattoos are all in colour, hence I assume the sign is colourful ?), the christmas lights, and the scene in the pub - they all cry out to be in colour to capture the moment as it was. See also the crockery in the last picture and the monument if it was shot against a bold blue sky ?
B&W also works well with high contract scenes, so while the one hurricane / spitfire and the F1 car don't really work for me, the one outside the Natural History Museum very much does. As does the one of the theatre (?) at night.
Now, somewhat hypocritically I spent today at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park shooting with B&W film, but was looking for contrasty situations where light and shade were playing off against one another - that's where I find I prefer B&W images, but I could also have taken lots of colour photos today to show an entirely different 'view' of the place.
So, while there is no right or wrong or good or bad, you maybe want to think about why you feel a particular scene might work in B&W rather than colour.
You've got some nice pictures in there though, and would be nice to see the colour versions.
Cheers for the comments. I have taken colour versions of some of these. And certainly take on board your comment that B & W doesn't automatically make a good photo. Perhaps the message could be - take shots in whichever fashion is appropriate to the subject matter? Are any of yours online for me to see?
I'd echo Nicks comments, and personally tend to stick to on-camera everything being in colour, and then changing to B&W as appropriate on the PC. You'd kick yourself if you took a pic in B&W and then wished you had it in colour, but at least doing it all in colour you never lose anything.
Like the last picture though.
Like the last picture though.
chevronb37 said:
Are any of yours online for me to see?
Here you go:http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_milton/
Also, have a look at one of the 'sticky' threads up the top which has a whole load of different peoples' flickr sites listed.
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