Just a lazy Saturday afternoon... Here are a couple shots from our living room, one out the front window into the street and one out the back window in to the backyard. While I performed the same actions of frame, focus, click shutter, the difference was in my mind. For the first time, I shot the first one knowing that I will convert it into a monochrome image, and color for the second.
I don't want to make it a big deal, as I was just running a little experiment to test a theory. In many reviews/comments of the M-Monochrom camera, I read people talk about how a pure monochrome camera or black and white film forces them to see in B&W. What I wonder is... is it really necessary to physically limit ourselves? I mean, with some self-discipline and setting the image preview to B&W on the M9, can't I train myself to see in B&W too? Surely a really good and well trained photographer can evaluate a scene and see it in both color and B&W? I plan to challenge myself one day to switch M9 output to black and white JPEG, shoot with that setting for a while, and see if I can start seeing things in B&W too.
I don't want to make it a big deal, as I was just running a little experiment to test a theory. In many reviews/comments of the M-Monochrom camera, I read people talk about how a pure monochrome camera or black and white film forces them to see in B&W. What I wonder is... is it really necessary to physically limit ourselves? I mean, with some self-discipline and setting the image preview to B&W on the M9, can't I train myself to see in B&W too? Surely a really good and well trained photographer can evaluate a scene and see it in both color and B&W? I plan to challenge myself one day to switch M9 output to black and white JPEG, shoot with that setting for a while, and see if I can start seeing things in B&W too.
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