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

Kilgallb · Dec 19, 2022

KenS said:
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

I never buy colour film local, I order from B&H in NYC. It is cheaper and more available than going local.

awty · Dec 19, 2022

I use both films, HP5 and FP4.
Colour is boring, what can you do with it? Saturate the colours, unsaturate, neutral nothing much else without a computer.
In monotone you can tell a story and you don't need a computer, just light, some chemistry, your hands and some imagination.....

awty · Dec 19, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
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.

And a ND filter.

GregY · Dec 19, 2022

I use Tri-X, TMY-2 & FP4. For almost 25 years, I've used staining developers; first PMK and then Pyrocat HD. I haven't used colour since the last century.

gone · Dec 19, 2022

Here in the U.S., we're on the other end of warming up. It will be a low of 5 degrees F in a couple of days here in Little Rock. I won't be going out to shoot any film, but when I do it's always w/ B&W. That's all I use.

Sirius Glass · Dec 20, 2022

awty said:
And a ND filter.

I have very rarely needed a ND filter, I cannot remember when I used one.

bags27 · Dec 20, 2022

An interesting question about ND filters. Do we shoot landscapes so wide open that we need them? On a sunny day, f/8 even with ISO 400 usually ends up around 1/500. I'd rather shoot Tri-X/HP5/Portra 400 at a slower speed anyway....

Sirius Glass · Dec 20, 2022

bags27 said:
An interesting question about ND filters. Do we shoot landscapes so wide open that we need them? On a sunny day, f/8 even with ISO 400 usually ends up around 1/500. I'd rather shoot Tri-X/HP5/Portra 400 at a slower speed anyway....

Just use slower speed film and then you will not have to spend money on ND filters.

Sirius Glass · Dec 20, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
I have very rarely needed a ND filter, I cannot remember when I used one.

Correction: Since the shortest shutter speed on the WideLux F7 is 1/250 second, I use the ND 2X for ISO 400 films.

awty · Dec 21, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
I have very rarely needed a ND filter, I cannot remember when I used one.

Well pack some 160 or Extar then. Usually if I have to squint then 400 is too fast, I have to squint alot where I'm from.

awty · Dec 21, 2022

bags27 said:
An interesting question about ND filters. Do we shoot landscapes so wide open that we need them? On a sunny day, f/8 even with ISO 400 usually ends up around 1/500. I'd rather shoot Tri-X/HP5/Portra 400 at a slower speed anyway....

If you want smooth water, if you want to shoot wider than f8 in the middle of the day, if you want swirling stars, etc.

Nicholas Lindan · Dec 21, 2022

Photographs of landscapes on color slide, with the occasional color print snapshot. Actually, they are all snapshots - hand held & reactive (Oh, wow - that's beautiful. Click. Continue walking).

Calm, reflective landscapes are almost exclusively B&W - LF to 35mm, on a tripod, the whole schtick - Zone System to make sure I get the exposure wrong and requiring me to bracket.

Funny how color slides in a Yashica T4 are invariably correctly exposed but a half hour of spot metering and calculations invariably leads me down the garden path of delusion and wrong exposure.

mrosenlof · Dec 21, 2022

with film (all of my """serious""" work) I am 100% B/W, my digital camera is my phone

Jon Buffington · Dec 21, 2022

Mostly black and white but some color film, primarily c41. More of my critical color is captured on digital but I rarely shoot that anymore.

Sirius Glass · Dec 21, 2022

awty said:
Well pack some 160 or Extar then. Usually if I have to squint then 400 is too fast, I have to squint a lot where I'm from.

When I was in Australia November 2019 people had sunglasses. Is it still legal to have sunglasses in Australia?

awty · Dec 21, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
When I was in Australia November 2019 people had sunglasses. Is it still legal to have sunglasses in Australia?

We're tough where I come from, like Clint Eastwood we squint......also I keep losing my prescription sunnies.

Sirius Glass · Dec 21, 2022

awty said:
We're tough where I come from, like Clint Eastwood we squint......also I keep losing my prescription sunnies.

So you are willing to get cataracts at a much younger age?

awty · Dec 22, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
So you are willing to get cataracts at a much younger age?

Mum used ta say the same thing "if you don't leave it alone you'll go blind " seems I'm doomed.
Wonder if old Ansel wore sunniest, probably orange ones, for better contrast.

Donald Qualls · Dec 22, 2022

awty said:
Wonder if old Ansel wore sunnies

Well, don't forget there was somewhat less UV in daylight when Ansel was most active than there is now (and even now there's less than there was at its peak). Back in the day, even folks in their 80s who'd worked outside their whole lives didn't always get cataracts -- and/or they let them go a lot longer then than they do now, because folks didn't see ophthalmologists as much and/or surgical interventions had much less satisfactory outcomes (incredibly thick positive glasses and poor vision even so) than they do now.

Chuck_P · Dec 22, 2022

B&W

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

I've been spending the morning perusing Roman Loranc's website and learned that he is strictly uses 4x5 Tri-X and develops in Pyro. I really like his images.

For the OP........strictly B&W for me..........

Guivd · Jan 11, 2023

mostly color (ektar 100)

Sirius Glass · Jan 11, 2023

It depends on what the landscape is. I carry both Portria 400 and Tri-X 400 in film backs, swapping back and forth depending on what I want [visualization].

Eric Rose · Jan 11, 2023

Colour - digital
B&W - film

tokam · Jan 12, 2023

awty said:
We're tough where I come from, like Clint Eastwood we squint......also I keep losing my prescription sunnies.

@awty, consider getting some flipup shades that attach to your glasses. Prescription sunnies are a one-trick pony as you can't wear them at night. Additionally dark glasses are a pain when you drive into enclosed parking buildings and can't see a bloody thing, too easy with the flipup shades on normal glasses.

On film I only shoot BW, usually with a yellow filter if there are broken clouds in the sky. Sometimes with a polariser but not with lenses wider than 35mm on 35mm film.

IMetodiev · Feb 23, 2023

Mostly BW, helps with abstraction, towards which I tend to gravitate.

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

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