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what attracts me to black-and-white
photography is that sometimes a color
photograph can just distract you from
what the actual scene that's been taken
my name is Stephen McNally I live near
Liverpool I worked as an ER dresser and
I do black and white landscape long
exposure photography
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I went to the cholera the first time
because my family a full generation and
- and when he arrived at the coloring I
realize it was such a great place for
black-and-white photography the black
and white images give it a historical
value here it makes you look like you've
gone back in time when I go on the shoot
the Sun is not my friend is a black and
white landscape photographer I need the
Sun to be diffused with the clothes in
bald mould one click opens the shutter
being from one second to Oh many minutes
I decide on the exposure and another
click to shut the shutter it's essential
that you use a tripod and a cable
release as the exposure times will be
quite long to keep the picture nice and
sharp I will put the camera into
monochrome mold and have a look at the
composition just to get an idea of image
I am going to get from the picture that
I'm gonna take I shoot in raw but when
you convert the raw picture back on the
computer you lose the monochrome look
raw and it could revert back to
color
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ideally I would go and shoot on an
outgoing tide so it's easier to shoot
going forward then retreating backwards
as the tide comes in just be careful
where you place your tripod as the
advancing tide pushes while sand in
front of it under the sand and the
weighted you tripod can move slightly as
your let's pose is taken and you've got
to do safety precautions check your
tides up you're not going to get caught
off when I put my camera on the tripod I
check that the image stabilizers turned
out I will check my camera is enabled in
middle lock up any slight vibration of
the mirror will cause me to lose
sharpness in the picture I will set the
ISO to 100 because I don't want any
noise in the black powder do black and
white photograph
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so I go to per craft and here we go when
it's going to be a very cloudy day so is
the delight ice comes above the horizon
I have got a background to use to create
movement in that cloud and bring some
drama into the picture to be a
successful black and white photograph
I always shoot in manual using the live
view on the back of the camera eyes ooh
right into the focal point where we will
be focusing from focus the lens and then
come back oh and then take the shot
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we view using a strong feature in the
picture I would go use from 17 mill up
to the 22 mil of the lens maybe down to
14 I would have used 10 mill because it
will make this that strong element you
would lose it would become a small
element in the picture and not really
interesting the average length of the
long exposure for me would be normally
is from 45 seconds up to 5 minutes and a
lesson shooting in the dark and then
they'll be up to 45 minutes
when I do my photography I try to get
everything right in the camera so when I
upload the pictures onto the computer I
don't have to do too much work using the
computer so anyone who's interested in
doing black and white photography in
your mind try to visualize your shot in
black and white photography means a lot
to me because my brother he was my
inspiration does he enjoy photography so
much I can carry it on solid
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