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King_Boru

King_Boru

King_Boru

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Afternoon chaps,

Starting to get to grips with this digital photography thing so I decided to take the camera with me to the 'Trimley Carnival' today. My baby girl loved it and it was a great opportunity to take natural photos of her. C&C welcome (hopefully my monitor is callibrated properly as it looks alright this end :S)

Erin_bw_001-thumb.jpg


Thanks,

King.

EDIT: I am looking to get this printed onto a canvas for my partners 25th b-day present. So it needs to be spot on :).
 
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I like the pic but imo the b+w conversion is a bit flat, its more grey than b+w.

How did you convert it as it looks like a desaturation rather than chanel/lab mode - both give better results imo
 
Shimmyhill said:
I like the pic but imo the b+w conversion is a bit flat, its more grey than b+w.

How did you convert it as it looks like a desaturation rather than chanel/lab mode - both give better results imo
Click to expand...

I used the desaturate option with a other options to get it to look the way I wanted. Namely, Levels, B/C, some touch up, paint tool and some others...Unfortubately I have never used lab mode. Can you elaberate on that for me?

I can see what you mean by it being gray aswell however I am finding it difficult to adjust this without making areas too highlighted or shadowed.

Dont know if this possible but can you shoot in B/W straight on the camera? It would be far easier to pop a B/W film in there ;) but thats going backwards I am trying to go forwards in tech!

King.
 
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I think the overall effect of the picture is great. Here is a link to different ways of doing B&W conversions. The levels method gives by far the best results.

Hope that helps.

:)
 
like the photo a lot mate :)
she's very cute
the eyes very much draw you in so the focus is just right I think
grey? perhaps, I've tried a few things and my best option is to level in colour for some contrast and then greyscale it

not as keen on the desat and other options but I'm learning
also you can shoot straight to b&w on any digital camera i've ever seen
however, shooting in colour can give you a post shoot option rather than just being stuck with B&W permenantly
sometimes I shoot a couple in B&W to see how it would look and then go for colour so I can process them

will check that link out about processing too as I need to do a b&w shoot for a small paper, so advice is sought at this point!
 
I have taken all your comments in and read the links provided, much appreciated. I have had a bit more of a tweak. Which I feel is a lot harsher image over the softer one before... I still need to find an inbetween which I feel will work better. Anyways, let me know your thoughts.

Erin_bw_002.jpg
 
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If you use Photoshop, go to the channels pallet and try select one of those, The luminance for the red, green and blue chanels is based individually on the luminence of the red, green and blue value of each pixel. Click on each channel to see the differences. This is often better than desaturating the image based on all three RGB values.
 
doing a b&w shoot today for someone hopefully
only need 3-4 photos but I've thought about a handy option
my canon shoots RAW+JPG
so you can set the filtered to B&W and see what you've captured straight from the camera on review, but the RAW are unprocessed and full colour.
seems like a handy facility to keep your options open :)
 
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