Do you shoot B+W or Colour?

Do you shoot B+W or Colour?

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Thought this could be interesting. Just let me know if this has been done before.
If you shoot digital but convert to black and white most of the time, choose B+W.
Which do you use over about, 70% of the time?
 
Black and white film. I like an occasional splash of colour (film). My digital gear is idling.
 
Vincent.G said:
Black and white film. I like an occasional splash of colour (film). My digital gear is idling.
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Same here, I have shot a few rolls of colour, but either left these unprocessed, or processed them as black and white in caffenol. Ever since I got into film, my Nikon D40 has been left basically untouched, apart from for uploading images to the web. Film is just so much more fun and involving.
 
I used to use only B&W film, then I got sick of photos looking the same all the time. I never shoot in; or convert to, B&W now.

My personal opinion here is that Black and White photopgraphy has lost a lot of the impact it used to have, and that there is more merit in well considered and executed color work. I mean no offense to the B&W afficionados. A good photo will always transcend the medium anyway.
 
Color can be nice occasionally but I loose my interest after a few rolls and always get back to b&w.
 
I am using black and white as I am processing at home and am thoroughly enjoying that. but i like to mix it up with colour now and again - specially since the supermarket is processing them through a fuji machine for $2 a roll!

never printed so i can't speak on that...:(
 
Roughly equal, on holiday it's almost all colour though, as I think in places of natural beauty it's generally a good idea to capture the colour.
 
I've recently gone back to shooting almost exclusively slides, with some cross-process slides thrown in there occasionally.
 
I shoot mostly black and white but I usually have a M body with either Ektar 100 color negative film or Provia 100F color transparencies film. Jim
 
It dipends on the object or project I'm shooting. With shiny weather and outdoor landscapes I like more color negatives. Strict architecture and people close ups more b/w. At the moment mostly colour with Ektar 100 or Fujicolor 100.
 
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Really enjoying color. Rejuvenated last fall by several books I looked at... ie: American Color, Istanbul.
 
I live in a coloured world so I shoot colour.
However I do tend to go for restricted colour in my shots - shades and tints interest me.

jesse
 
100% b&w for all my serious work which is various projects. I did a color project in 2005 and may do another one someday, just nothing I see in the near future.

I do shoot color (now digital p&s) for casual situations such as family happy snaps and those "would you send me a copy" times.
 
Black & White with film, and increasingly colour with digital, so about equal. This will swing back towards B&W a bit, as my conversion to b&w skills improve. For now though, my b&w conversions fail to impress me.
 
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