Color & BW together(same photo)
Oct 17, 2016 15:11:12 #
jeep_daddy wrote:
Keep in mind though, when shooting jpg in B&W, the file will have "baked" in those choices. You are letting the camera choose how the image will look, but the raw file can be processed any way you like.
Yes. It is the quick, cheep, and easy way to get the result needed.
Michael G
Oct 17, 2016 16:42:22 #
bweber wrote:
I agree with everything your wrote. I shoot one card RAW and the other JPEG with my preferred capture settings. I like the flexibility of RAW images for tricky sunset and early morning lighting and B & W conversions. But I also like to simply load a JPEG card onto my computer and post it or send it away without having to even open my post processing software (Capture One pro 9).
Oct 17, 2016 16:58:42 #
eyebidder wrote:
I have a D7100 with the two SD card slots. I have heard that you could shoot color & bw together some way to get the same photo to be in color AND in bw! I have not figured out a way to do this. Is it in post production? If anyone knows more about this please let me know how to set the camera(if possible). Thank you in advance! 
It's easiest in post production. B&W photography, when done right, often involves deeply colored filters, that would not look very good on color images, but they are a way to control contrast and tonal balance in B&W, and would only result in awful color casts.
Shoot raw, and create two images. If you are using Lightroom, you can use one image and create a virtual copy. You can apply the deep color filters to your black and white image on one copy, and do what you normally do for color on the other.
It might help to read this as well:
https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/7-black-and-white-photoshop-conversion-techniques--photo-488
Oct 17, 2016 19:10:31 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Whatever color I select from the LCD screen will be reproduced, with the rest of the scene remaining B&W. ...Adding selective color to a shot that was converted to B&W sounds like a challenge.
I didn't know DSLR's could do that in camera. Not sure I would like to use it that way, though. Doing it in PP is so simple once you know how to do it! You take the original color image, make a copy that you then convert to B&W. Copy and paste the color version onto the B&W in PS, add a black mask to the color image. Then paint in white wherever you want the color to come back. You can bring back only one color or several, depending on the desired effect.
Oct 18, 2016 09:53:52 #
dickwilber
Loc: Indiana (currently)
burkphoto wrote:
Oh really? Is that why whole, multi-billion dollar portrait companies make tens of millions of portraits every year, EXCLUSIVELY in JPEG mode? Is that why they spend millions of dollars on proprietary ...
Sorry, but whenever I see evidence of FROzen minded photographers, I have to rant. Use the right tool for the job!
Sorry, but whenever I see evidence of FROzen minded photographers, I have to rant. Use the right tool for the job!
Burkphoto is dead on! I spent a decade and a half doing this type of work. Transitioning from film to digital midway through. Doing sports I would do one, sometimes two gigs five or six days a week. With film (negative film with its built in latitude) I would just send off the the unprocessed rolls to the studio from each job. But with digital, I had to transfer the images to disk before mailing them off. There was no time for post processing! Everything was shot as Jpeg only (my earlier DSLR's had just one slot), and the exposure had to be on the mark!
When I started, wedding photographers mostly used 400 ISO negative film and over exposed, taking advantage of the greater latitude in that direction. Going digital required a little experimentation, but it worked out. I was lucky because I had shot a lot of transparency film and didn't have as much of a learning curve. (Some of the older wedding guys shot everything with two strobes at about the same distance at f/11 and relied on Igor - yes, our lab guy was named Igor - to adjust density in the print phase. I think most of them retired before going digital.)
Oct 23, 2016 12:58:33 #
WayneT wrote:
Do it in post production but shoot RAW to get there. IMHO you should always shoot color in RAW then shift to B&W in PP, that way you can have both.
That being said, sport photographers shoot jpeg at venues like the Super Bowl. They have to take their photos and upload them as fast as possible. That may be the only reason to shoot jpeg. When you need it as a universal file fast. But if you have any idea of working on your pictures, RAW is the only way to go.
Oct 23, 2016 13:09:43 #
topcat wrote:
That being said, sport photographers shoot jpeg at venues like the Super Bowl. They have to take their photos and upload them as fast as possible. That may be the only reason to shoot jpeg. When you need it as a universal file fast. But if you have any idea of working on your pictures, RAW is the only way to go.
That being said, sport photographers shoot jpeg at venues like the Super Bowl. They have to take their photos and upload them as fast as possible. That may be the only reason to shoot jpeg. When you need it as a universal file fast. But if you have any idea of working on your pictures, RAW is the only way to go.
If the Sports Photographers are making a decent living at shooting sports action and delivering the photos instantly to the publisher they would be money ahead to shoot RAW +JPG and have the camera phone home with the .jpg file.
Later, the photographer can apply PP on the RAW file for a Sports Illustrated Cover.
Michael G
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