We thought we were doing really well when we went from carrying a black-and-white dark room kit around to shooting color and using a one-hour photo place to develop the film.
Yeah, that's what I don't like, that's why I stopped shooting color and transitioned into making black-and-white fiber prints in grad school.
If it seems worthy of color, then I'd shoot color as well.
I would shoot color neg, develop it in a one-hour lab, scan, and transmit.
"Unless I am taking pictures for my own pleasure, whether I shoot color or black and white is often determined by the assignment," Erwitt told me.
"We shot color high-speed video of the bats gathering nectar, which is challenging to obtain because color cameras require a lot of light," said Cally J. Harper, lead author of a paper on the research.
There exist 400 color images, mostly day shots — it was easier technically to shoot color when there was more light — and a few of the more technically involved shots are presented in the book (Slides 5 and 6).
On D-Day 1972, fresh and ready to begin a photo internship at National Geographic, Nathan Benn, hitherto a black-and-white photographer, was delivered his marching orders: "I hardly ever shot color until I shot for National Geographic, and then I shot all in color," Mr. Benn, 63, recalled.
"The fun thing for me to discover, and it will come out more and more, was how many photographers who said they never shot color or never showed it, actually did photograph in color," he said in a phone interview from Australia, where he was vacationing.
