B&W question
Aug 24, 2021 10:23:37 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
This is 2021. Your digital camera captures in full-color. It outputs converted JPEGs to B&W.
This is 2021. Edit your full color RAW (or JPEG) to B&W on your computer. You start with better potential in the original file, yielding a better result in B&W, including digital versions of color filters and custom software for different toning, if desired.
This is 2021. Edit your full color RAW (or JPEG) to B&W on your computer. You start with better potential in the original file, yielding a better result in B&W, including digital versions of color filters and custom software for different toning, if desired.
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Aug 24, 2021 10:42:53 #
Kozan
Loc: Trenton Tennessee
In a modern digital camera, you are always capturing color, even if the camera is set to show you B & W.
Edit the color photo by using the color channels. By far this is the best method because grass may not be as green as you like or the sky not as blue, etc.
Edit the color photo by using the color channels. By far this is the best method because grass may not be as green as you like or the sky not as blue, etc.
Aug 24, 2021 10:43:47 #
I shoot in colors and make a conversion during editing using Topaz B&W Effects 2. By the way, I always add some warmth to the image to simulate my favorite paper, Agfa fiber based.
Aug 24, 2021 10:57:36 #
RustyNM wrote:
For those who do B&W:
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
I always shoot in colour and then convert. You never know when you might want a colour version as well.
Aug 24, 2021 11:03:39 #
RustyNM wrote:
For those who do B&W:
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
I shoot in Raw Color and convert with ACR and / or Ps CS6 to B & W. Why? You need ask? If I had a specialty super pricey B&W digital camera I would shoot in B&W. Few people have such Leica or converted beasts.
Aug 24, 2021 12:34:52 #
RustyNM wrote:
For those who do B&W:
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
No
Yes, all cameras record in color (CFA) and because I can control the emphasis of color on the B&W image in PP
Aug 24, 2021 12:53:56 #
For those who like shooting film because of the look of film (rather than the logistics of processing), particularly B&W, I would strongly urge you to give Exposure X6 a free try. While over the years it has evolved into a full fledged image processing solution, at its core is hundreds of B&W and color film emulator presents. At a click of your mouse it (non-destructively) applies just about whatever specific brand and type of film emulation you want to your image. Incredibly accurate tones, contrast, grain, etc. You can download a fully functioning trial copy for 30 days. I started out using Exposure (formerly known as Alienskin) simply to get the look of film, but for 98% of my photo processing it has replaced PS and LR.
Aug 24, 2021 12:56:10 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
RustyNM wrote:
For those who do B&W:
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
Do you shoot in B&W, or
Do you shoot in color and convert?
why?
I almost always shoot RAW (on rare occasion, RAW + JPEG) and I always shoot color.
I only convert from color to B&W later when I'm sitting behind a computer and looking at the image on a calibrated monitor.
I shot a lot of B&W film back in the good/bad old days. Loved it. Still do enjoy B&W images and prints.
When I shot B&W film I used a number of different filters to fine tune the shots. Today I don't carry those filters... but they can easily be applied during the B&W conversion in Photoshop. In fact, doing the tweaks to B&W in post-processing is far more precise, flexible and versatile than film and filters ever were. For one, you can preview how the B&W image will look, which was impossible with film. Now in digital post processing if you don't like something you can back up and try another approach.
You can do some of this shooting monochrome digital in-camera, of couirse... But not nearly as much as is possible doing it in post-processing instead.
There was an image posted here on UHH in the last couple days that was shown both in color and in a B&W version. Usually I'd lean toward the B&W image. But in this case I thought the color image worked better for several reasons. Primarily it was a complex scene that had a lot of interesting layers that were nicely delineated in color, but it just sort of became "gray mush" when converted to B&W.
Aug 24, 2021 12:59:09 #
For a long time I used Lightroom to convert to monochrome, at the urging of the local pro lab who printed my images. However, say it ain't so, yet, on a recent Nikon holiday to Puget Sound and the Bonneville Dam in July I took several shots with my D850 set for monochrome and to my surprise the RAW files for those images had no color at all to them!
Aug 24, 2021 13:16:42 #
b top gun wrote:
For a long time I used Lightroom to convert to monochrome, at the urging of the local pro lab who printed my images. However, say it ain't so, yet, on a recent Nikon holiday to Puget Sound and the Bonneville Dam in July I took several shots with my D850 set for monochrome and to my surprise the RAW files for those images had no color at all to them!
Look a bit closer, especially at the software used to open those RAW files ... All the color data was there. Your camera does not behave differently than all other digital cameras.
Aug 24, 2021 13:31:12 #
Yes. Digital cameras shoot color. If you want B&W you have to convert in post processing. You could go back to film, I suppose and set up a dark room.
Aug 24, 2021 15:48:02 #
Aug 24, 2021 17:15:47 #
Jerrymuller1947
Loc: Massachusetts
I shoot all my photos in color and convert to black and white in post processing. I like adjusting the color photo first to optimize the image and then choose pictures that I think would look better in black and white. I love black and white for street and portraits but some images just have to be in color and doing it this way gives me flexibility without losing a shot.
Aug 24, 2021 19:07:30 #
"In film days, I carried a camera with color and another with B&W."
In film days (35mm) I was shooting mostly theatre dance. In B/W. Everything else (landscapes, dogs, horses) in color. Harry
In film days (35mm) I was shooting mostly theatre dance. In B/W. Everything else (landscapes, dogs, horses) in color. Harry
Aug 24, 2021 19:08:03 #
Shoot in color then convert to B&W in Lightroom. That way I have the option of either version. Shoot in B&W and you can not convert to color.
Don
Don
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