I’ve been shooting and editing to black and white almost exclusively since before Christmas and since the beginning of the New Year I’ve been shooting with a monochrome view through the live view of my camera.
I convert those images to a black and white preset when importing the files in to Lightroom, in order that I don’t get distracted by the colour RAW image at any point of taking a photograph.
It starting to feel like I’m starting to get somewhere slowly with how I want my woodland images to look and feel and this has come about from trial and error, either through the viewfinder or once imported into LR.
It’s a strange thing, but when I’m out with the camera now, I’m looking for those tones and trying to envisage how I will process the image, before pressing the shutter button.
I definitely prefer the darker, moodier look of black and white and that’s how I want to portray what I’m seeing when I’m out and about.
I’m trying to shoot more under exposed to be able to work with the shadows and highlights as I want, to give me the look I’m after.
So far, so good. For the first time in a while I’ve started to feel as if I’m shooting and editing how I want my photographs to look… and that can’t be a bad thing can it?!
I first develop the image in colorspace (capture one) to have more leverage in the grey tonalities when you the black an white tool in Capture one.🤗🤗🤗