Black & White Photography
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Hiking through the snow, nature photographer Martin Bailey shows you Hokkaido's beauty through minimalist black-and-white photography. He offers a look inside his Hokkaido Winter Landscape Photography Adventure Tour, which is sure to inspire you to travel! If you had to choose anywhere for your adventure photography, Hokkaido, Japan should be on your list.
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Introducing the Leica M10 Monochrom Digital Rangefinder Camera, a versatile monochromatic camera with an expanded ISO of 160 to 100,000. In addition to its 40-Megapixel CMOS Monochrome sensor, LCD touchscreen, and absence of logo, it’s the first monochromatic camera to have built-in Wi-Fi, connecting to the Leica FOTOS app. It’s compatible with all of Leica’s current M-mount lenses ranging from 18mm to 135mm, as well as most Leica M-mount lenses dating back to 1954.
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In this B&H Event space video, photographer Laurie Klein, and Ilija Melentijevic, of Kolari Vision, discuss and explain the black-and-white infrared film imaging process. Conventional as well as unconventional applications of digital and digital IR imaging are shown and explained.
Other IR-related topics include modifying cameras and lenses for optimal infrared imaging results, filtering for IR imaging, working within different types of lighting scenarios, and post-capture image processing tips.
Agfa Scala was a wonderful, ISO 200 black-and-white slide film that was produced about 25 years ago. Scala had an amazing tonal range with rich blacks and lovely highlight detail. If there was a downside to shooting Scala, it was that there was only one lab in the US that would process Scala—Duggal Color Labs, in New York City. Luckily, I worked down the street from Duggal so, for me, it wasn’t a hardship.
Then digital technology bulldozed the business and like many films, Scala became a thing of the past, and instead of shooting black-and-
Today’s digital cameras are capable of awesome imaging performance and they offer an unparalleled combination of convenience, efficiency, and cost effectiveness that has made them the dominant mode of image capture. Nevertheless, shooting black-and-white film, especially in medium format, is a fascinating and worthwhile experience that’s rewarding, fun, and can also go a long way toward making you a more thoughtful and effective digital photographer.