hi folks can you answer me this question, i don't mind photos in color and can always turn them to B&w.. i know once before i took a photo and never can get that shot again so i got in color, and it nice in b & w too..
Sometimes it is hard to know whether it is going to look better in b&w or colour Jim until you compare the two shots, so like you say, it is usually best to take it in colour because you can always turn it into black and white, but not the other way round if you shoot JPEGs.
If you shoot RAW you can take the shot in B&W so you can see how it looks on your camera, but the colour info is still in the file, so when you edit it you can see how it looks in colour then.
Usually if I am going to think about b&w I look for a shot that has a lot of contrast and interesting textures, but that's just personal choice. Hope that helps!
Always shoot in color and convert to B&W after. When you allow the camera to do the B&W conversion, you are left with an 8-bit B&W JPG image that contains 256 unique shades of grey. If you shoot in color, however, the 8-BIT per channel color image - after the JPG compression - leaves you with just over 940,000 unique tones. That allows your post-processing b&w conversion to contain far more subtle shade differences than if you let the camera do it automatically.
It's not the 8 bit camera processing I mind (jpeg) but the inflexible color to tone mapping that the camera options provide you, as well as few fixed levels of contrast and sharpness and "filter" tones to say nothing about noise.
If you have a good editor, there are several decent free ones available, don't even think to shoot in B/W to produce a jpeg out of the camera. IMO.
Well as you said, you should always take pictures in color because it's easier to convert to black and white later.
I always just know when I want a photo to be black and white, just by looking at it and I go by that instinct. Sometimes I'm wrong and then I just keep it in color
I'm with @Frankhymus (as usual) and most of the others - shoot RAW, convert in an editor later. Sooo much more tonal and detail information in a RAW file all there for you to use as you wish (as opposed to the camera) in the editor when and if you convert.
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If you shoot RAW you can take the shot in B&W so you can see how it looks on your camera, but the colour info is still in the file, so when you edit it you can see how it looks in colour then.
Usually if I am going to think about b&w I look for a shot that has a lot of contrast and interesting textures, but that's just personal choice. Hope that helps!
If you have a good editor, there are several decent free ones available, don't even think to shoot in B/W to produce a jpeg out of the camera. IMO.
I always just know when I want a photo to be black and white, just by looking at it and I go by that instinct. Sometimes I'm wrong and then I just keep it in color