Black and white photography
May 8, 2018 23:39:06 #
johnlandon
Loc: Rangpur, Bangladesh
So, do you suggest shooting black and white photography directly from camera or you can do that later in Photoshop and you will have both color and black & white?
May 8, 2018 23:56:38 #
John, I do a bit of both. It just depends on which camera I'm using.
--Bob
--Bob
johnlandon wrote:
So, do you suggest shooting black and white photography directly from camera or you can do that later in Photoshop and you will have both color and black & white?
May 9, 2018 05:12:13 #
bobgreen wrote:
I'm appreciating black and white photography more and more . I have never shot monochrome ( I believe that's the correct term). I'd greatly appreciate suggestions , hints, and guidance from this very experienced group. I know it isn't as simple as removing color from photographs. I'm curious if using in-camera settings is the way to go. By the way, I shoot with a Nikon D7100.
Thanks!
Thanks!
In addition to shooting raw and color and adjusting in post processing, here are a couple of other tips.
Nik Silver Efex is quite good at converting to B&W and has lots of helpful presets.
To print your best bet is to either find a lab that offers inkjet print on a baryta paper. it has great deep blacks, and a very long gray scale in the darker tones. If you print your own work, use the Quadtone RIP.
http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html
DXO offers film pack presets to emulate many types of film.
May 9, 2018 06:52:58 #
May 9, 2018 08:32:03 #
May 9, 2018 11:02:23 #
bobgreen wrote:
I'm appreciating black and white photography more and more . I have never shot monochrome ( I believe that's the correct term). I'd greatly appreciate suggestions , hints, and guidance from this very experienced group. I know it isn't as simple as removing color from photographs. I'm curious if using in-camera settings is the way to go. By the way, I shoot with a Nikon D7100.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Can think about and see light & shadow or about shapes without being distracted by color? Focus on that. Does your camera have a setting that displays B&W in the viewfinder? If it does, use that to start out even if it means you shoot jpeg files. Don’t worry too much about whether the photos are keepers at first — goal to teach yourself to see past the colors; to recognize what a scene will look like in B&W before even looking through the viewfinder.
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