How my Digital Camera Helps My Art

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

If your camera has the B&W option, shooting your painting in B&W and maybe comparing it with the resource photo is a fantastic way to judge the tones !

Ilaria

[Chris Saper]

Unless I have grossly misinterpreted what I've read (always possible), shooting additional digital frames in B&W is an excellent decision.

I think that each time you shoot at a given resolution, the camera will consume all the available megapixels it has to image the shot. Color consumes a LOT more pixels than B&W. So your B&W image would have much more resolution.

While I have no scientific data, nor control-specific comparisons, I know that I can count (in B&W) the nose hairs on the top edge of a nostril from six feet away. (Under the heading , "Why would you want to?")

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Chris, I was trying to be short and was not clear enough!

I take photographs of the painting in B&W to judge the darks and the lights in my paintings, without being bothered by the "rightness" of the colours.
I paint a lot from B&W photos: I found that for me, if combined with a couple of short sittings, they are a much better guide to making my own decisions about the colours I am using.
I find it easier to put in a colour that might be there rather than dliberately changing one that is there in the photo.
After a while I almost start to see my B&W photo in colours.
It is also true that the definition looks greater !
Sorry if my English is not always up to standard: in this forum there are many excellent and very clrear writers, which is what makes it so useful and inspiring
Ila.