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

[rayonline_nz]

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]

50:50

 

[gordrob]

75:25 B&W:Colour

 

[logan2z]

100% B&W

 

[LeftCoastKid]

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]

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]

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

 

[destroya]

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

 

[Sirius Glass]

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]

100% black and white.

Mick.

 

[Trail Images]

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

 

[bsdunek]

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

 

[Sirius Glass]

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]

only black and white

 

[eddie]

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

 

[guangong]

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]

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

 

[KenS]

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]

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

 

[Kilgallb]

50:50
TMX100 and Ektar 100.

 

[halfaman]

100% color negative

 

[Vaughn]

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

 

[W_Taylor76]

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

 

[Laurent]

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

 

[John Patrick Garriga]

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.