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Michael Taylor

Color to B&W Conversions

My history and passion have always been with BxW.

Kodachrome & Ektachrome were a convenient "point&shoot composition" on the fly. With digital I was able to take on color for the first time with an eye toward something beyond point&shoot.

But a recent dabble in a decades-old passion for black and white film has reawakened an eye for monochrome. This transition, from seeing the world in color to anticipating it on a scale of gray, has been a challenge. I'm still tossing out negatives and used chemicals but am ever more committed to finding that monochromatic way of seeing things.

Here are some digital color images converted to BxW. It's been great practice rendering color scenes in their hidden gray scale. For me, it exposes the kind of sentimentality that the original image conceals behind all its hue, tint, and color.

I'm still shooting film as well and slowly finding it a tiny bit easier to visualize the world of color in a nuance of BxW.

Your ideas on this, composition improvements, or suggestions of any kind would be appreciated.

MZTaylor