Alpental

[squirl033]

one of the shots i got over New Year's weekend... the mountains near Alpental. the image was rather uninteresting in color, so i converted to B&W. not sure if it's any more interesting, but i like it better... 5D, 24-135 @ 57mm, 1/60 @ f/11...

 

[popsphotos]

I think it works quite well in B&W. Nice shot.

Pops

 

[JaniceL]

It is a nice composition but I'd like to see the snow and the cloud just a touch whiter.

 

[WldWi11y]

Real nice shot. What did you use for the BW conversion?

 

[Snuffy2]

Is there a B&W conversion? I have used the setting for B&W, Solar, Inverted (negative).

 

[Digital Latte]

I like it in B&W and agree with Janice

 

[squirl033]

i used the saturataion control in Irfanview for the basic conversion, then tweaked it a bit in PS to adjust the grayscale tones...

 

[Snuffy2]

From what I have gathered...you started with it in color and de-colorized it? Just thought of something, if you take color out of a print...do you have nothing? or is it naturaly B&W?

If so, then this is Digital version of B&W film versus color film, I see the use of B&W in Digital, but never had any reason to use B&W in film, even though it was cheaper.

 

[squirl033]

Snuffy, if you remove the color, you get black & white.

there are two ways to achieve B&W images with digital. one is to select "monochrome" or the equivalent setting in the camera before you shoot. the other is to de-saturate the image in post processing. i prefer the latter, since once you shoot the pic in monochrome in your camera, you can't add color, you have to switch back to color settings and take the photo again.

 

[WldWi11y]

Thanks Rocky... I've never used Irfanview and not familiar with it. I've been using PS CS3 and it seems to do an OK job. I'm waiting for the CS5 that I ordered and looking forward to seeing if it is any better. I was just playing around with an HDR image set in Photomatix and got a pretty good result in B&W there. I agree that I would prefer not to shoot in camera B&W for the same reasons you stated, and I've heard the results are not very good.