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What Ilford Film is Best for Landscape Photography? (Premium)

Ilford films are available for pretty much any type of photographer that you can name or list. At the moment, they have the largest selection of black and white films on the market as it is pretty much all that they produce. So with that said, there’s no good reason why landscape photographers would have been left out. Many photographers shoot landscapes as a hobby and very few actually end up selling prints of their images or being commissioned for tourist reasons. The look that Ilford film can provide is one that’s quite interesting. There are tons of photographers out there who shoot digital and simply try to create keystoned HDR photos. But that’s not really what film does.

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My Three Lenses

Editorial by Josh S. Rose. Be sure to also check him out on Instagram. Images and text used with permission Out of habit (and lust), I read a lot of online reviews of photography equipment. Truth is, I’ve spent too many hours delving into the craftsmanship part of the medium. But it’s a side note to my greater passion, which is shooting. This is why I’m sharing the contents of my camera kit — because in my journeys, I’ve found most reviews of equipment to be written from an expert’s point of view but it’s harder to find a cohesive opinion about…

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Daniel Zvereff: On Black and White Documentary Photography

All images by Daniel Zvereff. Used with permission. Website Instagram Be sure to support our Kickstarter! We’re in the middle and could really use more funding! If you like stories like this, you’ll be able to get all this and more with La Noir Image the magazine You’re a photographer that often shoots in color; and very vivid colors! So what creative choices typically make you shoot in black and white instead?   I’m not quite sure if there is a straightforward decision in my mind when working on a project that steers me towards color or black and white. I…

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(NSFW) Beauty in Simplicity: an Ode to Minimal Black and White Nudes

All images by Lachlan Walker. Used with permission. Also please remember to fund our Kickstarter. Instagram: @lachlanjames_ Website; lachlanwalkercreative.tumblr.com My name is Lachlan Walker, I’m a 23 year old photographer from Melbourne, Australia. Photography is omething relatively new for me.  Up until 2 and a half years ago I’d never touched a camera in my life. It was only when I met my girlfriend, who had always had a passion for photography, that I first picked up a camera. It was an old Nikon D3000, not much good on a technical level, but it was enough to spark my interest. A…

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Adam Griffith

What makes black and white photography important to you? The importance of black and white photography to me lies in the simplicity of the overall initial image itself while allowing for complexity to emerge through the combination of the composition, lighting, and subject that each photograph reveals. It takes away the colors that we are accustomed to seeing throughout our daily life and brings about a new way of “seeing” the world we walk through each day.  What inspires you to make photographs? Traveling through different countries and experiencing the variety of cultures inspires my photography. By living and working…

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Milo Hess

Instagram FolioHD Facebook What makes black and white photography so important to you? BW photography because it strips away all the unnecessary layers of distraction allowing the viewer to really look at what is going on. Not in a cursory nice color…what App did you use? kind of way but texture, light, shadow and most of all content and expression.  In a meat and potatoes…. less is more kind of way. Thinking about it I was brought up in a traditional bw darkroom and that’s a hard habit to break. What inspires you to create photographs? Inspiration for me is…

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Matthew Seratti

Website What makes black and white photography so important to you? Black and white images are the best way for me to capture what it feels like when I take a picture. The mood and emotion I felt are “why” I took the picture at that exact moment and black and white images remove the distraction of color. While I enjoy color images from others, when I’m out on my own taking pictures I’m not attracted to bright or complementary colors, I’m attracted to shadows, perspective, moods, and contrasts. What inspires you to create photographs? I am inspired to take…

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Seth Duimstra

Website What makes black and white photography so important to you? Black and white photography just speaks to me more than color. Theres a character to it that is timeless and to me you’re able to see the focus of the image much better verse being distracted by the additional colors. What inspires you to create photographs? I feel that I see things/people differently than others and I just want to share this with others, like a glimpse through my eyes. Why is black and white photography so important to our future in the art world? As said before Its…

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Nicholas Goodden

Website Street Photography London Blog What makes black and white photography so important to you?  It’s important to me as managing black and white tones takes real skill, more than just pressing “desaturate” in Photoshop.   Although it could be said that anything looks better in black and white, a carefully thought and crafted black and white photo has an effect on people I can hardly see equaled by anything in colour.   I think like in any creative pursuit there will be poor examples of course. Too often photographers don’t get that it’s not just black and white but a very…

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Jamie MacDonald

Website What makes black and white photography so important to you?  Black and White photography is important to me because it makes me focus on ALL the components of an image. I see light, texture,shape and patterns more easily when I am not distracted by layers of color. What inspires you to create photographs?  Life is too damn short! And so many people rush through every day to make it to the next and never slow down enough to be amazed and the world they pass by. It is my drive to create images from those moments many would rush…

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Mike Andrews

Instagram What makes black and white photography so important to you? I felt an intrinsic link to black and white photography from a young age, stemming from an exhibition of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work that appeared in Edinburgh’s Gallery of Modern Art. Like so many others, I was drawn to the aesthetic he created and how his use of monochrome allowed the viewer to focus on tiny details within the image, or the purely human element, without distraction.  There’s a transgressive quality to a gritty, contrasty black and white shot that colour cannot match. Indeed, in a colourful and vibrant world,…

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Mark Miller

Twitter Instagram What makes Black and White photography so important to you? Black and white photography is important to me because it helps create a timeless image. It is also a tremendous way to capture emotion and create a dramatic photo. I love how you can accentuate lighting and shadows using black and white as well. I believe that color only distracts from the emotions captured in a persons eyes and expression. To me B&W helps draw the viewer in and feel what the person in the image is feeling at the time. There is nothing more powerful than evoking…

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Salim Hasbini

Website Instagram What makes black and white photography so important to you? Black and white is important to me because of how it makes me work and think. It strips away all other elements, leaving me to work with what matters most: composition and subject. To me, those two qualities are vital to creating memorable, powerful photographs.…  What inspires you to create photographs? view myself as a tourist in this world. I walk through people’s lives, using their actions to find the moments where everything aligns: light, timing, subject and emotion, creating something greater than its parts. Finding those instances…

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