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Either that, or he needs to be a bit further to the left behind the groom more...
The "Post your pictures here" thread.
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true. Still a nice shot, she has a lovely natural expression.
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Indeed, and that matters more to the client than perfect focus or composition, it's just a little more DOF or a slightly different camera angle would be the icing on the cake so to speak.
B&W is good when its not over used. I'm not critising anyone on here btw, just stating my own personal tastes.
I feel a massive colour contrast in a single shot pretty much always looks better than a B&W version of it. A friend of mine shoots everything in black and white and loses tonnes of chances at a great photo imo
I feel a massive colour contrast in a single shot pretty much always looks better than a B&W version of it. A friend of mine shoots everything in black and white and loses tonnes of chances at a great photo imo
B&W is good when its not over used. I'm not critising anyone on here btw, just stating my own personal tastes.
I feel a massive colour contrast in a single shot pretty much always looks better than a B&W version of it. A friend of mine shoots everything in black and white and loses tonnes of chances at a great photo imo
Ahh believe me, lots of colour shots here, I just prefer B&W so posting the occasional one
I'll post some colour ones first, I just need to finish them off!
Truth be told I'd shed a tear of happiness to be asked to shoot an entire wedding in B&W.
EDIT: Fully appreciate you were not targetting anyone here, but I still posted my 2p anyway
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Ahh believe me, lots of colour shots here, I just prefer B&W so posting the occasional one
I'll post some colour ones first, I just need to finish them off!
Truth be told I'd shed a tear of happiness to be asked to shoot an entire wedding in B&W.
EDIT: Fully appreciate you were not targetting anyone here, but I still posted my 2p anyway
Ha yeah I know, not trying to spark and argument or anything
When I do a B&W photo I always seem to lose the sharpness of my photo and start to make it soft. Its probably me being poor at editing these types of photos yet I can never get them to look how I want when just dealing with the grey scale lol.
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B&W is good when its not over used. I'm not critising anyone on here btw, just stating my own personal tastes.
I feel a massive colour contrast in a single shot pretty much always looks better than a B&W version of it. A friend of mine shoots everything in black and white and loses tonnes of chances at a great photo imo
I normally find B&W conversions add soul to photographs, so therefore should be used for specific artistic reasons, rather than simply, the colours were messed up.
So I like a mixture but favour colour photographs, providing that the person PS'ing the image now's how to get pleasing colours from it, and doesn't get too 'funky' with the processing, it's the No. 1 factor that kill's otherwise good images for me.
Took me ages to figure out how to do a B&W to what I would consider an acceptable standard
It's all about very minor adjustments
I can't seem to crunch the blacks to really bring them out without hurting the whites and pretty much everything in between. Looks like I might have to invest in lightroom 3 at some point, although I doubt I'll have a project that calls for B&W photo editing for a while yet.
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Took me ages to figure out how to do a B&W to what I would consider an acceptable standard
It's all about very minor adjustments
Took me a while to, but now I built an action that I can apply to pretty much any image I want to, so now editing (for B&W) only takes seconds.
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No. 2 & 5 for me, where were these taken btw?
I prefer 2,3,4,5 myself.
I'd be interested to know what you guys think is a 'right' black and white conversion. I have the feeling mine are a bit too contrasty but at the same time I like the look of them.
With a lot of my shots I just do whatever I feel like. I don't always try to replicate whatever is in front of the camera; sometimes I'll try and be creative - to my detriment or not!
I'd be interested to know what you guys think is a 'right' black and white conversion. I have the feeling mine are a bit too contrasty but at the same time I like the look of them.
With a lot of my shots I just do whatever I feel like. I don't always try to replicate whatever is in front of the camera; sometimes I'll try and be creative - to my detriment or not!
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If you want a fast workflow in photoshop to create a punchy black n white starting image in photoshop on your layers apply a gradient map. then after that make a curves adjustment and select the curve to strong contrast (rub)
Now you have a starting point with anchor points to adjust your black n white.
Depending on what you want you don't wanna turn it into a contrasty mess where you loose all your shadow details.
It is yup, 2 shots @ +0ev and +2ev. 10 is also an HDR
I tend to lightly use it rather than clay it all up like you tend to see on DeviantART or FlickR etc.I can't say for the moment unfortunately as it's still being worked on. Soon though
The thing with BW is that each shot will look different on different monitors for different people because of the black level and shadow detail differences between LCD monitors. I calibrate mine every few months but some of mine look different between PCs at home and at work while they look how they were intended to look on my own monitor.
There's only so much you can do really so just try and get the best balance to what looks suitable for your shot in question.
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