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I hadn't done any black and white photography for a long time, so I thought I'd go out and just play. I used the Sony MVCD-1000 digital camera and set it to Black & White mode. It was just a quick shoot through Ledges State Park and the ISU campus, looking for interesting subjects that I thought would lend well to B&W photography.
This was fun - it's been long ago since I last developed any black and white film, and printed it in a darkroom, that I'd explored B&W photography. There is a certain beauty in this type of photography that conveys the essence of the subject seen by the camera, where every color nuance is removed to reveal the interaction of light and subject. Paradoxically, there is a human eye condition know as complete Achromatopsia which is a lack of the eye to perceive any color at all!
Black and white photography is, for the most part, a lost form of photographic expression (in my opinion!) for many photographers. Mostly, I feel, because of the much higher demand of color photography. For me, I would opt any day for a color photo over a black and white one - it's just more pleasing to the eyes than shades of grey! But colors, as far as digital photography is concerned, are just made up of shades of grey in each of the Red, Blue and Green color channels. Either way, in film or digital photography for shooting in black and white, and I highly recommend to shoot in black and white, teaches a photographer the luminosity values (brightness intensity) of color in a scene, relative to surrounding colors. This helps to evaluate a scene to determine any problem exposure areas. How can you easily learn this? Reading material about black and white photography can help, but actually working in a black and white medium, digital or film, is the best way.
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