*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.06.22 ***

Nice highlights and shadows. Beautiful street shot.

It is an interesting set, you did it very well here.

I remember doing that too 😁
Will definitely try your broad bean reccommendation.

I always need a bit longer to reply to your posts, with their normal multitude of images to look at ;-)
My favourites are the ones above. Nicely composed!
I've always thought that using the B&W setting directly on the camera and capturing in B&W would be a disadvantage because if the colour info is lost, you don't get the opportunity in post to modify the grey tones based on their colour. In post it's like having a set of coloured filters available, perhaps even different ones for specific parts of the image. That's sort of analogous to how you lose out when shooting only jpg and not RAW.

Maybe I should try sometime setting the camera to B&W to "look for good B&W scenes" in the viewfinder, then shoot them in colour and convert them in post to get the best of both ideas?

This one is good with its strong contrast and the leading double lines on the road

A cool shot !

Very well done !
Very pretty, lovely costumes and poses too !
The LED's on the costumes are very creative
These are my favouritres

You saved the best until last :-)

I totally agree, just shooting B&W in JPG would be completely throwing away the option to switch it back to colour at a later stage or try different filtration and so on.

What I'm doing here is setting the camera to B&W when composing and taking the shot, but shooting in raw+JPG, that way I get a B&W jpg plus a full colour raw file. I'd prefer to just shoot in raw, but Fuji cameras just use the low res JPG embedded in the raw file for playback which is near useless for checking focus on, but if there's a JPG available as well, it will use that instead.

So, with this setup, all the colour information is still present in the raw file, but it's tagged as being in the B&W profile. Capture One respects the film sim settings on import, so it comes through into the editor in B&W if shot that way, but as it's really a colour image I can just change film sim in C1 to get the colours back.

I'd imagine most other mirrorless cameras will work this way, although I haven't tried doing the same thing with any of the others I own just yet. It's worth a go though, I've found it quite an interesting experience.

Thanks Steve :-)
... that makes a lot of sense. I just tried it on my Z7 and works very nicely with that camera too. I put the "picture control" on to "MY MENU" so I can change quickly between monochrome or back again to normal.
As suggested, I chose RAW + JPG and I get the full colour RAW that displays as a B&W photo until I start to edit it, when the full colours become visible. The JPG is of course a hard baked B&W version of the same. I can also set to just RAW if I want to.

So that's something new for me to try on a next trip :-)

I agree that in these examples BW works better, as it turns leaves into uniform background and allows to concentrate on shape of trunk and branches. With colour version green leaves appear brighter and catch attention instead of being background.