Landscapes - are you shooting mostly color or b/w?

rayonline_nz · Oct 25, 2019

The weather is warming up here at the southern hemisphere and got me thinking. Althou I belong to a camera club and we try to do a bit more variety, I am largely into landscapes. I then visited some well known landscape professional photographers here and I see they mostly have color images.

For myself I have shot my film landscapes mostly with color slide film as the pro's did back in the day.

For you guys here with landscapes. Are you shooting mostly color or black and white?

Cheers.

BrianShaw · Oct 25, 2019

50:50

gordrob · Oct 25, 2019

75:25 B&W:Colour

logan2z · Oct 25, 2019

100% B&W

LeftCoastKid · Oct 25, 2019

Depends upon the format I happen to be shooting: If it's 35mm, almost certainly color (E100); if medium format, 60/40 black and white to color (PanF+/TMax100 and - currently - E100G).

Tom Kershaw · Oct 25, 2019

Currently, almost entirely b&w, and some colour digital but I have some colour film plans in the works. At times in the past I've mostly shot colour film, it depends.

Tom

Alan9940 · Oct 25, 2019

Mostly B&W. I could count on my fingers and toes how many color landscapes I've shot.

destroya · Oct 25, 2019

90% B&W and 10% color, mainly velvia 50

Sirius Glass · Oct 25, 2019

Color if I will only have small prints made and black & white if I will be playing with it in the darkroom to make a larger print for mounting and framing.

Mick Fagan · Oct 25, 2019

100% black and white.

Mick.

Trail Images · Oct 26, 2019

100% color transparencies and convert 10% to B&W in PS when it's needed.

bsdunek · Oct 26, 2019

Mostly B&W here. I do like color in the fall to record the colors - B&W just doesn't do it.

Sirius Glass · Oct 26, 2019

I will be taking a long trip to Australia and New Zealand with my Hasselblad. I will only be taking Portra 400 because I will not have the luxury of spending a lot of time studying the shapes and light to take many black & white photographs. This trip the camera will have to play second violin.

R.Gould · Oct 27, 2019

only black and white

eddie · Oct 27, 2019

I've been exclusively B&W for over 10 years. I do, however, hand-color my work.

guangong · Oct 27, 2019

rayonline_nz said:
The weather is warming up here at the southern hemisphere and got me thinking. Althou I belong to a camera club and we try to do a bit more variety, I am largely into landscapes. I then visited some well known landscape professional photographers here and I see they mostly have color images.

For myself I have shot my film landscapes mostly with color slide film as the pro's did back in the day.

For you guys here with landscapes. Are you shooting mostly color or black and white?

Cheers.

Did they really. Except for National Geographic, etc., and amateur vacationers, I don’t remember that many people who shot landscapes exclusively in color slides. A lot of b/w landscapes by professional artists. For example, Ansley Adams. If I remember correctly, his color work was commercial for magazines.
Photography is not like painting (unless you are heavily into photoshop), because it doesn’t allow the same control over colors. B/w is more abstract and offers more control over picture elements. In short, color slide landscape photography is a really hard to do.
That being said, while most of my photography is b/w, it is not unusual for me to load color slide, especially MF.

removed account4 · Oct 27, 2019

i'm shooting them in black and white ( usually paper negatives ) and then coloring them

KenS · Oct 27, 2019

rayonline_nz said:
For you guys here with landscapes. Are you shooting mostly color or black and white?
Cheers.

I have not purchased (or exposed) ANY 'colour' film (positive or negative) of any make or.. size since my 'retirement' in 1997.
North of the 49th its is 'difficult/impossible to find 'color' films [my bad!!! ]

Ken

Philippe-Georges · May 26, 2020

B&W is the 'real' colour, Tri-X the best support and Pyrocat-HD the best soup...
For me although...

Kilgallb · May 29, 2020

50:50
TMX100 and Ektar 100.

halfaman · May 30, 2020

100% color negative

Vaughn · May 30, 2020

100% B&W -- and fall is a favorite time to use B&W (and a yellow filter!)

W_Taylor76 · Jun 2, 2020

100% b&w. Haven't shot color in decades.

Laurent · Jun 2, 2020

B&W for is, but I only shoot B&W anyway

John Patrick Garriga · Nov 30, 2022

I usually shoot B&W. When I'm coming back from a trip I like to look at the pictures I've taken in colour, and then after a while I go through and run them through B&W. The only exceptions are exceptionally colourful landscapes (such as Red Bluffs near Foxworth) and even then I usually put a few of those in B&W.

Landscapes - are you shooting mostly color or b/w?

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