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Why your best photographs are made with the Monochrom and Noctilux F0.95 ???

the warrior

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jdlaing

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I listen very carefully to the arguments for B&W photography compared with colour, and try to look carefully at the evidence. Some have great validity and some are tosh, like most arguments, including those for colour.

 

Yet I still feel that, whilst there are undoubtedly many brilliant photographers producing beautiful b&W photos, the most interesting and stimulating of contemporary photography is nearly always colour work. Of course it is harder to do well, but maybe that is part of the reason it is so much more rewarding when it is done well.

 

Also, (and this is a very private thought, not meant to be insulting) I increasingly find B&W photos a little obvious, a little condescending almost, as if the world is too difficult to face up to and deal with visually, so it needs to be dumbed down, simplified so that we can feel the quick gratification of seeing something easily recognised as "artistic". It is not really surreal, it is not really abstraction, it is a very conventional approach to the type of photography that I'd personally like to see us continue progressing from rather than reverting to.

 

That very private thought is no longer very private.

 

I agree with it.

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platypus

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Of course colour has it's place: frivolous happy snaps, family album stuff, the kid's first day at school, birthday's, puppies & kittens, flowers etc.

But hey!! black & white images also have their niche: serious, creative, moody, subtle, the decisive moment when the moment is the focus.

My tongue is firmly in my cheek.

Oh yes....the subject of this thread: Can't really comment, I never put the Nocti 0.95 on the Monochrom, that spot is reserved for the APO50.

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rodluvan

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a fast lens, in the wrong hands, is the single most destructive photographic device I can think of. at best it arrests artistic progress and at worst puts a completely stop to it.

nondiscriminatory use of shallow dof (or as I call it; Flickrography) makes for vapid content and a dull eye and mind.

imo, Jhon's photos illustrate this perfectly; the f/1 photos are by large naught more than eye-candy to be suckled for 2 minutes. they certainly don't leave a lasting impression. otoh, many of the photos, that have been taken with the lens stopped down, have far more substance and hold my interest longer

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the warrior

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Like my Noctilux f0.5 with the Monocrom.

 

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