gavinlg
Veteran
Lets play a game.
With all the talk and interest in digital B&W over the last few weeks, I thought it would be interesting to have a thread with just digital black and white examples. As an added incentive if you have anything constructive (may improve the posters picture or give them incentive to improve) to say, or even a compliment, do so with a quoted post.
Rules:
-Just 1 picture per post.
-Must be digital B&W
-Limited discussion
-Include some details - the story behind the picture, gear, conversion methods etc.
With all the talk and interest in digital B&W over the last few weeks, I thought it would be interesting to have a thread with just digital black and white examples. As an added incentive if you have anything constructive (may improve the posters picture or give them incentive to improve) to say, or even a compliment, do so with a quoted post.
Rules:
-Just 1 picture per post.
-Must be digital B&W
-Limited discussion
-Include some details - the story behind the picture, gear, conversion methods etc.
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gavinlg
Veteran
I'll go first!
"A beautiful couple I photographed for our local newspaper. They've been married for over 60 years and they've lived in their house in my town for over 30 years.
They laughed and joked whilst I took some pictures, afterwards telling me they attribute their health and age to regularly laughing."
Taken with 5d + 17-40 f4L. Converted in Adobe Lightroom from RAW. Note it's not grainy because it was taken for a magazine article in a weddings magazine. The style would have been "posed photojournalism"
"A beautiful couple I photographed for our local newspaper. They've been married for over 60 years and they've lived in their house in my town for over 30 years.
They laughed and joked whilst I took some pictures, afterwards telling me they attribute their health and age to regularly laughing."
Taken with 5d + 17-40 f4L. Converted in Adobe Lightroom from RAW. Note it's not grainy because it was taken for a magazine article in a weddings magazine. The style would have been "posed photojournalism"
bmattock
Veteran
I don't normally do B&W conversion of digital photos I take. Generally, if I want B&W, I shoot B&W film and scan the resulting negatives. I liked this one better in B&W than color, though. Taken a few weeks ago at a Veterans Day ceremony.
Here is the original:
dazedgonebye
Veteran
300D, converted in Photoshop.
Much of my free time has been of the lunch hour variety. Shooting Arizona outdoors at around noon is a challenge in many ways.
Much of my free time has been of the lunch hour variety. Shooting Arizona outdoors at around noon is a challenge in many ways.
Fred Burton
Well-known
EOS 10D/Photoshop
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I don't do a lot of black and white conversions in digital as digital is generally my 'go to' for colour shooting.
The M8 though is a very good black and white shooter ... this is straight out of the camera in black and white jpeg mode and 1250 ISO!
The M8 though is a very good black and white shooter ... this is straight out of the camera in black and white jpeg mode and 1250 ISO!
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monochromejrnl
Well-known
GRD in B&W mode, iso400, @f2.4
Honus
carpe diem
This was taken with my R-D1 w/ 35mm Summicron. I processed it with Adobe Camera Raw + Photoshop CS2, but really wish I had used one of my M's with Tri-X
gavinlg
Veteran
This was taken with my R-D1 w/ 35mm Summicron. I processed it with Adobe Camera Raw + Photoshop CS2, but really wish I had used one of my M's with Tri-X
Love this, I honestly don't think it would have made any difference if it was on real film. The conversion is quite good.
gavinlg
Veteran
I don't normally do B&W conversion of digital photos I take. Generally, if I want B&W, I shoot B&W film and scan the resulting negatives. I liked this one better in B&W than color, though. Taken a few weeks ago at a Veterans Day ceremony.
Here is the original:
Really strong contrast and depth in the BW version. Great portrait.
photorat
Registered Abuser
Long walk home
Long walk home
Shot inside the St. Anna pedestrian tunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
Epson R-D1 with 35/2 Summicron (probably f/2.8). I like Epson's RAW conversion to black and white and tend to use that over manual desaturation.
Long walk home
Shot inside the St. Anna pedestrian tunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
Epson R-D1 with 35/2 Summicron (probably f/2.8). I like Epson's RAW conversion to black and white and tend to use that over manual desaturation.
fefe
Established
M8, Leica 90 MEM, from the coast in Appolonia (north of Tel Aviv, Israel) converted with Alienskin plugins in PS.
bmattock
Veteran
fefe, impressive.
craygc
Well-known
I'll second that... Excellent Fefe, I don't usually like digital conversions
mfogiel
Veteran
Nikon D40+ Nikkor 45/2.8 P at ISO 1600 - I find only the high ISO digi B&W shots don't look like crap, because they mimic very well a pushed film.
kipkeston
Well-known
This is pretty much what I've been doing for digital b/w. I use PS CS3 and gradient map. M8/28emarit-asph. I really wanted to try the b/w convert pro plug-in but I haven't been able to make it work with CS3. I suspect it's not compatible.
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nobbylon
Veteran
D70 Raw then Alien skinned to tri x
D70 Raw then Alien skinned to tri x
D70 Raw then Alien skinned to tri x
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
Panasonic LX3, ISO800, 50mm(approx) - converted using Imagenomic
Dave
Dave
jody36
Well-known
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Kodak 14n, shot in color and converted in Photoshop using a plugin called Convert to BW Pro.