A question to ponder for those shooting Digital ....

Do you shoot Monochrome in the Camera.....or shoot color and go Monochrome in postwork?

Same question about sepia tone...

Postwork. You cant achieve the same effects/control in camera.

Attached Link: ultimatedream

I used to shoot in colour and then change in post, the other day I woopsed with the setting and come up with such lovely sepia colours (link below) that I couldn't wait to download so now it is in cam with another shot in colour if I think it is warranted.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1402819

Jenny

On my Canon i can shoot both at same time. Depends what i am shooting and if i am not sure what affect i am after.
Chris

Definitely postwork.  Check this out for various ways of doing in in PS:

http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=43

i agree with all here ! postwork !!

if you shoot in color, you can apply differents typicals b&w filters (red, green, orange) and keep the real effect, then desaturate or use the channel mixer (wonderful tool !!)

Olivier

I've always shot color, then converted it..

But...I was just curious..and may experiment with the camera b&w

I think monochrome in camera really pays off if you know that you're gonna have to do a whole 'themed' shoot in monochrome or sepia... in that case it would be more time-consuming to do it all in postwork. So, I guess the monochrome in-camera has its purposes... But for casual shots, I would always choose postwork.

Geert makes a good point and the only reason to shoot monochrome in camera is to save time. You have so many more options when converting from color -- from tonal adjustment to what you want to emphasize most. You can convert from one channel, or from hue/saturation, or several other ways. The only time have used B&W in camera is when shooting IR because all the info is in the red channel anyway, and I seem to get a cleaner shot that way.

Definitely postwork - I really don't care that it will take me longer if it's for a series.

You can create an action in PS to handle the initial procedures so that everything starts with the same conversion method and settings. Then it's just a matter of "massaging" that would be different to each particular image anyway.

Good point about creating an action...I do it all the time at work to increase my productivity. Leave more time for play here! ;'P

im a big fan of converting in PS with the channel mixer.It just seems like you get a richer photo.

Hmm I would always favour postwork.. And you have always got the colour shot to go back to if th BW did not work out so well..