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12/31/2005 11:56:18 AM · #1 |
Can you guess what spells, "I don't have a clue what I'm talking about" more than an ignorant person saying something like;
"All you young people are so fascinated with black and white pictures...if you had grown up with them you wouldn't think they are all that special."
I tried to explain to her that black and white can convey more things to the audience. I told her how it can convey more emotion, more artistic nature, calm down distracting backgrounds, bring out shapes and curves, etc. She doesn't buy it, she thinks photographers these days like black and white because it is nostalgic and that we use black and white simply because we didn't grow up with it.
She's so ignorant...not only about photography but about almost everything else in life. It pisses me off. |
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12/31/2005 11:58:01 AM · #2 |
Not to mention it's a good way to fix WB screw ups ... lol
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12/31/2005 07:16:14 PM · #3 |
| while there are a lot of advantages about B&W, if the shot doesn't look decent in color, there's little chance it'll look good in B&W either. B&W has a particular 'mystique' and assumed professionality that can draw attention. |
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12/31/2005 07:19:22 PM · #4 |
I tend to agree with your aunt, however ignorant she might be.
I prefer a great color pic to a great black&white any day.
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12/31/2005 07:20:49 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by specialk0783:
" if you had grown up with them you wouldn't think they are all that special."
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well she had said herself, she does not value because she grew with them, you did not grow with them so you know what she had and failed to understand. |
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12/31/2005 07:32:38 PM · #6 |
I shoot everything in color... now there are times when I want to convert to b+w (some of the people I shoot for want the b+w's) I tend to prefer selective desaturation over straight b+w myself.
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