Shot color film then PP to B&W?

[kshapero]

Does anybody Shot color film then Post Process into B&W?

 

[Sparrow]

Yep the summer holiday snaps have to be colour, swmbo insists, so all my Corfu stuff is converted

 

[kshapero]

Yep the summer holiday snaps have to be colour, swmbo insists, so all my Corfu stuff is converted

How did it turn out?

 

[Sparrow]

How did it turn out?

take a look at the Corfu prints on the RFF link in my signature

 

[pmu]

Shot with color negative and made B&W in PP:
http://strap-photos.com/photosets/mormon/index.htm

 

[thegman]

Not regularly, but I think sometimes a photo will look good in B&W but not colour, if the colour is not striking or adding anything to the image. Also B&W photos are easier to pass off as "art".

Same can be said the other way round of course, I see photos sometimes of beaches/oceans etc. in B&W which I think would look be so much better if you could see the colour of the water and the warmth of the sun.

 

[Keith]

The most appealing (for me) black and white conversions I have ever done from colour have been from Kodachrome ... yes sacrilege I know and I do feel bad about such shameless desaturation of an ikon of colour!

I guess I'm just not really into colour!

 

[Keith]

Stewart,

I just got it (swmbo) ... 'she who must be obeyed!' ... I still like Arthur Daley's reference to his cheese as ... 'her indoors!'

😛

 

[Sparrow]

yep Ayesha, from King Solomon’s Mines

 

[malkmata]

I do it all the time. Color film is easier to get and much cheaper than films like BW 400CN. I usually use the B&W adjustment layer in Photoshop, I can control the contrast at the same time.
I don't convert to b & w if color is an important element of the image.

 

[craygc]

Ive done it more than a few times; often looking for an easier process than developing myself and having the colour to pre-filter. I have now stopped - at least as a deliberate activity - as Ive concluded that converted colour film - actually all C41 - does not look like true B&W emulsions. Not saying it looks bad but it does not look the same and its the B&W look that I like.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Ive done it more than a few times . . . . I have now stopped - at least as a deliberate activity - as I've concluded that converted colour film - actually all C41 - does not look like true B&W emulsions. Not saying it looks bad but it does not look the same and its the B&W look that I like.

Dear Craig,

Exactly my sentiments, though one of the tricks is deciding which B+W look you want: 1880s, 1920s, 1960s...

Cheers,

R.