Challenge Dec. 27th-29th "Set Your Camera To Monochrome"
roxiemarty wrote:
Sorry to hear about Richard! I so enjoy his photography and comments here! I will be praying for his recovery.
Glad they were able to recover Richard! Looking forward to hearing from him soon!
Richard!!
I have always found that I get better black and white images by shooting in color and then converting in post-processing.
steve DeMott wrote:
Been having some real interesting weather lately. Tried to create more cloud movement on the 2nd one.... Need more ND filters and the cloud weren't moving very fast
The contrast of the sun rays in the black and silver clouds is wonderful!
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Here's another -worked this A.M.
Top of the Mt.- Castle Craig, Meriden, Ct.
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PAToGraphy wrote:
Hi, Sunny...do hope to join the challenge. Still celebrating here and hubby has a very bad cold. RIchardQ sent me a PM and asked that I let all know:
"I failed to thank everybody for their kind comments on my pix in the Christmas songs/cards competition, but I was suddenly incapacitated after posting the third photo. My daughter rushed me to the hospital with a heart condition (a valve flutter of some kind). My pulse dropped to 40 in the ER and then sank to 20, so I became a candidate for a Pacemaker at age 91. I'm recovering well now and enjoying a visit by my violinist grand-daughter and her husband, as well as other family members. Anyway, I want to thank my friends in Ugly Hedgehog for their appreciations of my Christmas images from more than 70 years ago, and expect to be posting more very soon! Please let everybody know that I wasn't ignoring their enthusiasms. I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday! Love, Richard Q.
RichardQ"
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Thanks for letting us know!
SueScott wrote:
Are we allowed to do converted rather than use the mono setting? I do a lot of B&W but always convert from color.
Hi Sue,
Pg. 1 This challenge was supposed to be about setting your camera to monochrome to make the shot. The advantage is said to be that you see the shot through the view finder in black and white. With that said, with both my camera's, this is not the case. I see the shot in color. This may be because I shoot in RAW or I may not have my filters set correctly. I'm inexperienced with this type of photography. Even when I convert the image from my SD card to my computer, the image is in color and I have to manually tell my Adobe processor to convert to black and white.
So, does it make any difference? I'm not sure. You be the judge and post what you like.
Sunny
PAToGraphy wrote:
Hi, Sunny...do hope to join the challenge. Still celebrating here and hubby has a very bad cold. RIchardQ sent me a PM and asked that I let all know:
"I failed to thank everybody for their kind comments on my pix in the Christmas songs/cards competition, but I was suddenly incapacitated after posting the third photo. My daughter rushed me to the hospital with a heart condition (a valve flutter of some kind). My pulse dropped to 40 in the ER and then sank to 20, so I became a candidate for a Pacemaker at age 91. I'm recovering well now and enjoying a visit by my violinist grand-daughter and her husband, as well as other family members. Anyway, I want to thank my friends in Ugly Hedgehog for their appreciations of my Christmas images from more than 70 years ago, and expect to be posting more very soon! Please let everybody know that I wasn't ignoring their enthusiasms. I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday! Love, Richard Q.
RichardQ"
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Hello Pat, Here's hoping hubby gets better soon so you can join in the challenge. Thank you for forwarding RichardQ's message. That's such great news!
jaymatt wrote:
I have always found that I get better black and white images by shooting in color and then converting in post-processing.
Pg. 2 Hi Jay, so good to hear from you! Since I'm new to this process, would you lend your opinion on the differences between these two methods? Why do you feel that converting in post-processing is better than dedicating the shot to monochrome in your camera?
Thanks, Sunny.
judy juul wrote:
Here's another -worked this A.M.
Pg. 2 That's a good one Judy!
Bad weather coming...got these shots at about 10:20am today. These are SOOC. I might get some time to PP a bit.
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First the wind was out of the north.
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Then the wind from south-east. Hope that roof will hold.
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Sunnybuck wrote:
Hi Sue,
Pg. 1 This challenge was supposed to be about setting your camera to monochrome to make the shot. The advantage is said to be that you see the shot through the view finder in black and white. With that said, with both my camera's, this is not the case. I see the shot in color. This may be because I shoot in RAW or I may not have my filters set correctly. I'm inexperienced with this type of photography. Even when I convert the image from my SD card to my computer, the image is in color and I have to manually tell my Adobe processor to convert to black and white.
So, does it make any difference? I'm not sure. You be the judge and post what you like.
Sunny
Hi Sue, br Pg. 1 This challenge was supposed to be... (
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When we shot film looking through the view finder, everything was in color and it's the same with a dslr. When using the view finder you are looking through the lens with no PP. On my D7100 I can press the info button and set the Picture Control to Standard, Neutral,.... Monochrome or a few other settings. Looking through the view finder it's still in color, but in live view it's B/W.
You can also use the Retouch Menu and adjust each photo to Monochrome and play with filter colors. You can then save a copy. I would rather use PS for any conversion.
With out starting a war, I don't see a lot of difference between the processing of film or digital PP. You shoot seeing in color. Either sent your film to be processed or developed it yourself or downloaded a color image and press the B/W button. The end results are similar. I think you had to be more mindful about shooting film B/W using filters.
That's my $.01
l-fox wrote:
Bad weather coming...got these shots at about 10:20am today. These are SOOC. I might get some time to PP a bit.
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Pg 2. I like the second one with the sun coming through those angry looking clouds. If I have to deal with the wind, I definitely prefer wind out of the Southeast, it seems to be warmer.
Sunnybuck wrote:
Thank you again, Photogirl17 for seeing us through the busy holiday!
This challenge is about setting your camera to shoot exclusively in Monochrome. It’s viewed by some in the photography world that if you set your camera to shoot in monochrome, it makes you think more about composition, lighting and framing, rather than changing the setting in post processing. For me personally, the first hurdle I encountered was just finding the setting on my camera. I’m a newbie to this type of photography and will be learning from you seasoned artisans.
Below is a link that you may find interesting.
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/2767/monochrome-mode-why-use-it/Have fun with it, and feel free to share your photos.
Sunny
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This will be fun. Like the reflections in the first image.
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