B&W HDR
Jul 20, 2012 10:05:14 #
I guess I should have put this here, rather than in the General section.
Jul 20, 2012 10:33:08 #
We're off to a good start, and I'm glad you gave us an example of what HDR can do for B&W images. I think if we spread the word about this forum, we'll have a lot of fun, and learn a lot.
jerryc41 wrote:
I guess I should have put this here, rather than in the General section.
Jul 20, 2012 10:39:46 #
DaveJS
Loc: Philadelphia, PA area
Never thought of using B&W for it. I like the result. Were they shot B&W or color then converted?
Jul 20, 2012 10:48:44 #
Jul 20, 2012 11:03:16 #
DaveJS wrote:
Never thought of using B&W for it. I like the result. Were they shot B&W or color then converted?
It was night so there was no color.
:D
I just accepted the Photomatix B&W version of the final result.
Jul 20, 2012 11:21:22 #
DaveJS
Loc: Philadelphia, PA area
There is always color. The street lights would have been giving off a certain color, and the light from the sky.
Jul 20, 2012 12:57:20 #
DaveJS wrote:
There is always color. The street lights would have been giving off a certain color, and the light from the sky.
Right. That's why I added the :D
Without color, color-blind people would just be blind.
Jul 20, 2012 13:38:59 #
I personally prefer to take a color HDR image and convert to B&W in Nik's Selver Efex Pro. I haven't had much luck with the B&W presets in Photomatix or Nik's Silver Efex Pro. Here is one I did of Boothbay Harbor, Maine back in the beginning of June.
Jul 20, 2012 13:43:21 #
TaraMar wrote:
I personally prefer to take a color HDR image and convert to B&W in Nik's Selver Efex Pro. I haven't had much luck with the B&W presets in Photomatix or Nik's Silver Efex Pro. Here is one I did of Boothbay Harbor, Maine back in the beginning of June.
Very nice. So you use Silver Effects Pro, but not the presets? I've never used any Nik products.
Jul 20, 2012 13:52:22 #
Thank you. I do use Silver Efex Pro and use the presets there with minor adjustments as I see fit. I do not use the B&W Presets in either Photomatix or HDR Pro because I don't like the end result; images are usually too noisy for my taste and even though I can reduce the noise in PP I find that converting a HDR image to B&W lends better results than converting to a B&W HDR image.
jerryc41 wrote:
Very nice. So you use Silver Effects Pro, but not the presets? I've never used any Nik products.
TaraMar wrote:
I personally prefer to take a color HDR image and convert to B&W in Nik's Selver Efex Pro. I haven't had much luck with the B&W presets in Photomatix or Nik's Silver Efex Pro. Here is one I did of Boothbay Harbor, Maine back in the beginning of June.
Very nice. So you use Silver Effects Pro, but not the presets? I've never used any Nik products.
Jul 29, 2012 14:08:53 #
WOW I didn't think about doing the B&W either. I like the crispness B&W renders. Nice job. Have to give that a try too.
Jul 29, 2012 14:14:13 #
Personally I love B&W HDR or not. There are times where certain colors distract rather than add to an image. I think back to Look magazine and some of their photos from sporting events or political conventions they would have been uninteresting in color but had great depth of field in B&W.
Jul 29, 2012 14:35:00 #
2 Dog Don wrote:
Personally I love B&W HDR or not. There are times where certain colors distract rather than add to an image. I think back to Look magazine and some of their photos from sporting events or political conventions they would have been uninteresting in color but had great depth of field in B&W.
Right! I always thought it was interesting that B&W photos (and movies) are held in such high regard, since they are not at all realistic. Suppose color film was the first to arrive on the scene. How would late-comer B&W be viewed (no pun intended) then?
Jul 29, 2012 15:01:12 #
jerryc41 wrote:
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Good Lord Jerry I didn't think of that aspect but probably should have. One of my young granddaughters once told me she was really glad the world was now in color and that it must have been sorta ugly when everything was B&W.
Jul 29, 2012 15:20:44 #
GPappy wrote:
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She must have watched The Wizard of Oz.
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