Tag: Prints

My birthday challenge – “if I gift you a set of nine 30cm square frames will you find or make some prints for them and then we’ll put them up in the lounge?” – “in black and white”.

Couldn’t resist, I love black and white work! In the digital realm it is so easy to shoot everything in colour and to shoot so much of it. In my old film days you would select a B+W or Colour film to load before you shot anything. While that locked you in to one type of result it was of itself no guarantee that what was shot suited either B+W or Colour! The creative selection and visualisation still had to happen.

When I looked in to my Lightroom Catalog and saw a sea of colour images taken over the last 10 years with a variety of cameras (including phones) and even more scanned in from negative and transparency film I was excited by the challenge of selecting images that would (? may) look good in B+W. In anticipating the post-processing work needed I looked forward to learning the technical aspects of doing ‘conversions’, but also accepted that a number of images may not be that crash hot in B+W. Equally, the “square” part of the challenge, à la Instagram, meant that a lot of shot work had not been composed for squareness.