I haven't had the chance to post any pics in a few days so I doubt anyone will be disappointed that I'm not on task for today either. I'm trying to work on my black and white conversions in PSE5. This is a shot I took last night in RAW and I did the conversion in the RAW workspace. I like the bit of grain the 800 ISO that I used gives for this shot, but I'd like to know if you think it works. I'd really appreciate any HHCC on this that I can get. I love the look of B&W, I'm just not sure if I know what a good one looks like. I figure if I can get landscape and scenic stuff to look good, then I can move on to work on portraits. I posted a second shot here of the bear statue by the river (frozen). I wanted to try out a daytime shot too. This is one of my shots I accidentally took with the WB set at tungsten which made the photo blue. Who would have thought that this would make it good for a B&W conversion? This pic was taken in JPEG, hence the problem with the tungsten setting. It was converted within PSE5.
Settings for branch shot: ISO 800, F 5.6, SS 1/20, focal length 90mm.
Settings for bear: ISO 800 (oops), F 5.6, SS 1/4000, focal length 18mm, WB tungsten (oops again).
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These are fantastic! I love the second one. I also love the first one from your pictures yesterday - beautiful colors :)
These are pretty.
For my taste, the first one is still too grey. The snow doesn't look white, KWIM?
The second one looks better. You have more of a dynamic range, and the frozen bear is fun.
You are on the right track, IMO!
I love the second one, but I'm not sure why - how's that for a helpful comment! :) Really, I think it's the tone, the b&w conversion is awesome! Good job!
Thanks for the comments. They are really helpful. The funny thing...or maybe interesting thing, is that the second one which was the better conversion was the accident picture that was all blue. Maybe something to learn here in shooting B&W.
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