{"id":267,"date":"2018-07-09T03:56:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T03:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-07-09T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T04:00:09","slug":"cant-see-the-mono-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/2018\/07\/cant-see-the-mono-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t see the mono for the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the title should be \u201cCan\u2019t see the black and white for the colour\u201d but the trees are more relevant to this blog. I mostly shot in colour with some early B&W, until I realised that I have been missing the point. Colour photography has its place and all that stuff. Black and white, on the other hand, has more atmosphere, feeling, art. In my opinion, of course.<\/p>\n

Colour photography also has all that, I agree. I prefer to think that I have been shooting B&W all the time, I just needed to remove the colour to expose the picture.<\/p>\n

And so to trees\u2026<\/p>\n

Some photos taken in colour using Canon 5DIII and Leica Q then converted to B&W using a combination of DXO, LR and SFX. I didn\u2019t like them much in colour, but I love them now. You might not. Whatever.<\/p>\n

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Eucalyptus standing proud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fallen surrounded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Twists and turns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Young cows, trees past<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Contrasting solidarity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nature and not. Nature wins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A welcoming hug, if you dare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Peppercorn trees. Maybe some boats in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And I ask myself \u201cWhat will I do with the pics?\u201d<\/p>\n

Just finished painting around the house. Saved $12,000.<\/p>\n

So, I thought, I can now buy a Leica Monochrom! Cost justified! Luxury at no \u201creal\u201d cost.<\/p>\n

But I thought some more\u2026 excellent camera, world\u2019s best monochrome\u2026 but what will I do with the pics? Flickr, Instagram, Facebook\u2026 whatever. On the lounge room wall maybe? But there is only so much wall to fill!<\/p>\n

In the end there was a clear \u201cchoice\u201d. No Monochrom. Lovely to have, to play with, but an expensive toy. Perfect photos (maybe), a life of 24 hours to 1 week on the internet, some to be printed and framed (maybe). No brainer. No camera. Love the one you\u2019re with.<\/p>\n

So I will continue to play with my Leica Q (now that I have given the 5D to my lovely daughter to enjoy) and continue to see in B&W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the title should be \u201cCan\u2019t see the black and white for the colour\u201d but the trees are more relevant to this blog. I mostly shot in colour with some early B&W, until I realised that I have been missing the point. Colour photography has its place and all that … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,11,10,14,13,16],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-bw","tag-canon5d","tag-leica","tag-leicaq","tag-photography","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}