One of my Favourite Poems and Animals

[Tronhard]

EOS 5DsR, EF 100-400LII@ 263mm, f/5.6, 1/320sec, ISO-500

The Tyger  By William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger 

[Tintype_18]

Zoo? I see that you are utilizing the finer points of B&W photography. We tend to get in a rut, thinking everything has to be in color. My complements.

[Tronhard]

Hi John:
Thank you!   Yes, zoo at the moment.  It's what I can get to, given my health status. I suspect my days of overseas travel are over, and while I love macro mammal predators, they are not exactly thick on the ground here in NZ.   For me, the challenge is to take them out of their confinements and try to give them back their freedom, even if only in an artistic sense.

I like greyscale (I differentiate that from B&W, but that's just me), as it is much more inducive to concentrating us on the character of the subject.   If you can find one, I strongly recommend a book by the fabulous Brazilian photographer, Sabastio Salgado: "Genesis".   He had a long history of documenting humanity in distress and it got to the stage it was making him seriously ill.  So, he turned to photographing nature in his preferred genre: greyscale and the images are stunning.

[Tintype_18]

I have a Canon T7 and will check the manual to see if there is a grey scale setting. I do see it on my printer settings.

Know what you mean regarding health status. However, it beats the alternative.

[Tintype_18]

Adding: my T7 only has monochrome. However, looking at the three pages related to it, I learned some things I didn't know existed for different filter effects.

[Tronhard]

Monochrome is in Canon speak, also called black and white, or greyscale.  Being perhaps somewhat pedantic, I define these differently, as follows:

Monochrome:   Literally means of a single colour.  Technically black and white are not colours, they are the existence of all colours or the lack of light completely.  So a monochrome image could incorporate a colour, black and white elements: such as this example where the only colour is blue.
EOS 60D, 500mm, f/10, 1/250sec, ISO-200

To me, Greyscale is a subset of Monochrome, where there is a range of tones but no colour whatsoever:

600D, 18-135 IS STM@50mm, f/11, 1/1000sec, ISO-200

Finally pure black and white is extremely hard to capture, but is in line with the Japanese concept of Notan: a Japanese term meaning light, dark harmony and is characterized by Structured lights and darks, an organic design.
or an interesting pattern.EOS M5, EF-M 18-150@89mm, f/8, 1/640sec, ISO-100

There is an great video from B&H, Seeing in Black and White with Eileen Rafferty: