Who shoots color film then PP's to B/W?

[kshapero]

Anyone out there shoot in color with film and then convert the image in PP to Black and white? What results have you gotten? Have any examples?

 

[kully]

Tuna on the forum does this with Reala 100 - lovely results he gets from it too.

 

[Ronald_H]

If you are willing to experiment a bit with conversion methods (it's not rocket science) the results can be surpisingly nice. C41 is smoother than films like FP4+ and Tri-X.

Usually I go this route when the light is really ugly, e.g. with fluorescent lighting.

Here's one from Fuji Superia 200, Nikon EM:

And an example from MF, Fuji Superia 100, Yashica Mat 124:

 

[kshapero]

Damn nice conversions.

 

[ZeissFan]

I've only done this a handful of times (fewer than five photos) in maybe 35 years.

But if it works for someone, why not?

Here's one that I converted. Originally shot on Kodachrome 25 (that should tell you how long ago I shot this).

 

[hlockwood]

Anyone out there shoot in color with film and then convert the image in PP to Black and white? What results have you gotten? Have any examples?

And perhaps those that do will share their method. In my case, I shoot C41 Ilford XP2 exclusively these days. But some of my older shots were color, converted to grayscale.

The method I use is to convert the RGB image (after scanning with Nikon 4000ED) to Lab mode, then discard the a & b channels, and finally convert to grayscale. Of course, starting with color rather than the B&W presents other options in PS.

All of the shots in Folio2 on my pbase site are from XP2.

Harry

 

[Aurance]

Ektar- Silver Efex Pro Sample

Ektar- Silver Efex Pro Sample

Anyone out there shoot in color with film and then convert the image in PP to Black and white? What results have you gotten? Have any examples?

I did some trials with Ektar converted to BW using Nik Silver Efex Pro - here is one example from my web site.


http://www.lawrencephotographic.com.../Large/Catalogue No ZE-Ektar100-13CBWAPII.JPG


You can read the whole article and see more examples at -

http://www.lawrencephotographic.com/Articles/Ektar 100/ektar100.htm


Regards

Richard

 

[dmr]

I shoot almost exclusively color, but every so often a shot just works better in B&W. This one comes to mind:

I think this was just a simple desaturate.

Also for my Weegee style experiments I did them on color film and then converted:

http://omababe.blogspot.com/2007/01/people-watching-ala-weegee.html
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2008/04/weegee-on-fremont-street.html

 

[Sparrow]

My family insist on colour for the holiday snaps, so I do that all the time. Fuji superia 400 normally, scan as a tiff, then in layers do, desaturate-levels-curves-(or whatever it needs) in Photoshop, flatten and send off to the printer.

One can get some nice results with care, this photo was more to do with the light that morning any film would have been OK