Matthew Lemon Wedding Photography

A bit of black and white

Battersea Power Station in the morning sunshine.

A good way to stimulate creativity is to manufacture some sort of restriction or boundary. Sometimes limitless choice makes choice impossible.

So, having read some advice by David duChemain I have decided to shoot in black and white for a while. While I’m at it, I’m going to stick to using fully manual mode on the Canon 40D using a 50mm f1.8 lens. Plus…! I’m going to shoot in JPG on camera, in Monochrome. The images that end up here are straight off camera: no processing, no sharpening (other than what the 40D does with the “standard” setting in the Picture Style for Monochrome). And that is why most of them will be rubbish, but the idea here is not to look for great images but to think a bit differently when out with the camera in hand. We’ll see how long this lasts…

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