How to Take Better B&W Film Photos

Wow! Where do I start? I'm nearly 72, and I've been shooting film since before you were born. You crammed a lifetime of experience and wisdom into a fairly short video. I'm deeply impressed!

I love that "meter for the highlights" tipp!

I love ilford FP4 it has more contrast and its lower film speed is no problem in every day situations. In fact it has an advantage when you want to use a flash to highlight the subject.

I haven't seen Vancouver through film, especially black and white, the way you captured it! 🙌

I'm glad that YT suggest this channel

"simplified the composition" great tips & video mate👍🏼

I find the antipathy toward editing in some photography communities really head-shakingly odd. Pressing that shutter button is only a third of the work. The rest of the journey toward print is in the darkroom. With exception of documentary photography, that has always been the case and for very good reasons. I'm glad you brought up Adams. The zone system he pioneered is precisely and ultimately all about _the print_. The same applies classicists like Fan Ho, and even the original run-and-gun street photography god like Winogrand. I used to shoot a lot of B&W on the RB-67. The usual kit would have a couple or four film backs. All TMY2, but marked on the back for "push 2", "pull", etc. The development regime would follow suit. The general goal was to have the scene dynamic range span the full density on the film. This gives the highest resolution tonality data to work with in post.

I’ve shot digitally for about 6 years and I’ve done 35mm and 120 film for a little over a year now and I gotta say I shoot 90% black and white just because I like it much better. My years of being a photographer have already made me see the world as a photo opportunity every where I look, but from shooting mostly black and white film I can almost tune my brain to see in black and white to get the best photos 😅

Great information 👌🏻. I’m about to start doing film photography after 3 years of digital. Brilliant content.

Just picked up a Nikon F3 with 3 rolls of b&w iso 400 film. I can’t wait to get out and learn to shoot this classic camera.

This is incredibly informative! Thank you so much!

Great video, so inspiring. Thx for sharing

GREAT TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for this video and channel!

Wonderful presentation.😊

Great video

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much for this! I'm definitely subscribing for more ^^

nice video, I am a beginner so love this kind of content.

gr8 tips mate .. grew up with film in 80s & resuming the interest but film's rare & expensive now post Covid-supply & vintage cameras need servicing so, now resorting 2 expired film & B&W.

Great video! Subscribed immediately! Thamks.