**Rate my digital B&W picture**

[gavinlg]

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.

 

[gavinlg]

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"

 

[bmattock]

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]

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.

 

[Fred Burton]

EOS 10D/Photoshop

 

[Keith]

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!

 

[monochromejrnl]

GRD in B&W mode, iso400, @f2.4

 

[Honus]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[fefe]

M8, Leica 90 MEM, from the coast in Appolonia (north of Tel Aviv, Israel) converted with Alienskin plugins in PS.

 

[bmattock]

fefe, impressive.

 

[craygc]

I'll second that... Excellent Fefe, I don't usually like digital conversions

 

[mfogiel]

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]

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.

 

[nobbylon]

D70 Raw then Alien skinned to tri x

D70 Raw then Alien skinned to tri x

 

[dcsang]

Panasonic LX3, ISO800, 50mm(approx) - converted using Imagenomic

Dave

 

[jody36]

Shot with a Lumix DMZ-FS5 in b/w then added used iphoto to add color which darkens the blacks. MY FLICKR

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Kodak 14n, shot in color and converted in Photoshop using a plugin called Convert to BW Pro.