The Little World

Shoot in black and white.

This advice applies for most realistic shots of the early twentieth century. Most were taken with monochrome film or plates and appear in our consciousness as such.

Now, of course, AI and ambition colourise the older photos and we get a better idea of what things might really have looked like – but we still remember newsreels and book illustrations in mono.

You are free of worry about colour temperature and clashing light source when you shoot monochrome. You can concentrate on composition and frequently up your ISO to get steady shots without colour noise interfering. If you do get noise, it looks like film grain.

Didn’t think of it at the time? Set your camera to take RAW as well as jpeg and work that RAW file later to anything you wish.