Just wondering what people's thoughts are on why they practice photography in black & white.
What is the attraction or impetus to photograph in black & white?
Black and white is for fine art. Color is for family snapshots and calendar art.
Actually I take my family snapshots in black and white too. Call it the force of tradition.
Our existence isn't black and white, and not all dreams are in colour.
Does anyone else do this, look at a well executed color photograph, proclaim its beauty, then move quickly to the next. Then you look at a well made B&W print and find yourself staring at it, not willing to move on, or coming back to it repeatedly. That is "why blackand white".
I chose B&W for the purely functional reason that back when I started shooting colour was considered 'too difficult' to process and print at home and I accepted that wisdom as fact.
Last year I started printing in colour and now I don't shoot much black and white at all!
... I find B&W to be a much harder discipline so it's nice to relax with printing some colour from time to time....
I don't think color is ever going to catch on.
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