Simon says "Glorious monochrome..."

[KeithM]

Break out those channel mixers and mix down to mono !!!

Any subject goes but extra points for creating an image from something that doesn't normally work in mono ( eg sunsets, flowers.... )

Let the games commence.....

Keith.

[Swampy]

Slowly getting the point...

[Igor]

How about this one? One of our orthodox churches...

[coughlin47]

I went for the extra points (flower pic), but I think I lost them with the blown out white...
ran thru smart blur to take some of the detail away from the white baby's breath... channel mixer (22,50,66,-4 monochrome)...
ligthing effect (soft omni) on the rose, then backed off (faded)
Bill

[sandman]

Window shopping

[sandman]

Window shopping 2

[smunky]

This guy yelled at me until i got away from his field...MOO
I tried to mix this with channel mixer, might be a bit much.

[sandman]

Smunky's seperated me.:D .
last one

Window inside looking out.

[coughlin47]

Wow! No wonder BW is making a comeback...some very nice renditions .. of course, I had to do one more ... playing around with Calculations (can get some interesting results)... this is a bed and breakfast about 1 mile from my house.

[David W]

Caught in a shower

[Linda G]

channel mixer?


Here are two renditions....which do you like better?

BTW, I wanna go shopping! I like all these images, but Brian's are so simple yet so much to look at.

Linda

[bestshot]

hey sandman,

good shot.... like the mood created by the light coming inside...

dennis:D

[okidoki]

Lime stone.


http://24.130.254.148/julku/assets/images/shadow.jpg

[Roger Ele]

OK, here is a flower ...

[bestshot]

don't mind the rubber stamps on her right arm... :D that kid is an artist.... :p
dennis

[bestshot]

what do you think of this guys..... hope to get that extra point...:D

dennis

[sandman]

O.K. lets try some B&W flowers.

[Linda G]

Please share, are you guys shooting in b&w or color and then changing to b&w?

Also, Brian, did you learn on B&W? Your contrast and overall tones show an innate knowledge of what would be good in b&w.

Linda (attaching a prize image of my daughter, shot in color and converted)

[SSonnentag]

Palm trees in my backyard...

Shawn

[SSonnentag]

I shot this picture of my wife back in August while were were visiting the Seattle, Washington area. I like it...and her! :D

Shawn

[sandman]

Linda
I first started shooting in the late 50's when was about 12, my dad gave me his old box brownie , and i loved it , progressed from there. I still shoot B&W sometimes, and use Ilford delta.

For my shots i just removed the colour , you can de-sat but i only do that if i'm going to colorize afterwards. I have shoot in B&W on the S2 , but if you shoot colour you've got the option of B&W if it's wanted .

Thanks for the compliment but it's proberly luck , i knew the stone jars would look good because i've converted them before ,the other window and the flowers were just hit or miss . But i do like the anti-room in Canterbury Cathedral , it looks great in colour, and i just knew it would look good in B&W as well. just hope you all think so.

Just like to say before i close that this has been a good challenge , some lately have just died , but lets hope we can get some more great pics ,i know i've been greedy and posted 4 , but i might do another couple just for fun .

There's some really good pics in here so lets keep them coming.

Brian.

P.S. just rechecked it's Rochester Cathedral and not Canterbury

[bchan3rdi]

I love this thread! =)

[bestshot]

hi guys,

linda, i shot the image of my daughter and the sunset i last posted in color and converted them to black & white. but i'll try to post a shot of a chinese food i did later on... :) good shot by the way of your daughter....

shawn, nice image of the palm trees... good contrast against the skies...:)

sandman, hey, you're getting the points i want...:) just kidding, i like the flower shot you last posted....

hope this thread never ends.... :D

dennis

[High ISO!]

Ok...this is a fun thread...

I was playing around with this shot a couple weeks ago......right after I shot it.

Alissa

[coughlin47]

Alissa - beautiful, I really like this shot. I have to get rid of this 'junior' label, so I might as well post another one!
Bill

[Linda G]

I'm with those who've said they hope this thread doesn't end soon!


Here's one shot in color in Berlin last rainy spring. I coverted it to black and white and really like the punch it gives. I cloned out the lady's arm on the right in the color one, but haven't done it to the black and white...yet.


Linda

[Linda G]

One more and then I'm off. We leave tomorrow morning for 10 days in Romania, should have lots of images to share then!

Linda

[dartz]

sigma 28-300 f.3.5-6.3 plus cokin +3 close ups
CTS, hard,hard,standart

[dartz]

glass ashtray, in detail :)

[sandman]

The seaside town of Whitstable world famous for it's oysters

[Linda G]

I love macros, can't do 'em very well, especially since my change to Fuji as I had a pretty good setup for my Canon and don't feel I can justify replacing it now. (I used an extension tube, a tele-extender and a 300 mm f4L lens)

Brian, you handle whites really well. They always look bright without being blown out. Very nice.


Bye all!

Linda

[Andre]

Nikkor 24-85G F/4.5 1/60 ISO200

[sandman]

Thanks Linda ,enjoy your stay over here in europe, and thanks again for the compliment even if you do make me sound like an advert for soap powder.:) .

Brian

[sandman]

Last one (proberbly)
Street scene in the little harbour town of Rye in Sussex.

[sandman]

Sorry wrong one posted above try again
Street scene Rye.

[jeffinkansas]

love this thread!

[bestshot]

hi jeff,

great shot you posted.... it reminds me of those photojournalists who covered war victims....

regards,
dennis

[jeffinkansas]

thanks very much, I really apprieciate the feedback!

[sandman]

Only putting this one in to keep this challenge on top ,and to remind you to post some more B & W shots , this thread is not just for me ,(even if it does seem like it...Sorry).:D :D

Brian

[Andre]

Nice shot Sandman.
I wouldn't mind seeing it in color too.

[bestshot]

hope this would spice something different... this is a chinese desert.... shot it for a restaurant two weeks ago...

enjoy,
dennis

[bestshot]

i agree sandman, let's keep this thread alive....:)

[dartz]

playing with graphic design element here. geometries : lines

[dartz]

More line, diagonals now..

[KeithM]

Puck's Glen ( somewhere in Scotland :) )

A nice little glen with a stream running down it - lots of rocky bits with small waterfalls filling pools. Quite dark and lit from above so a tripod is essential !

Keith.

[sandman]

Something a bit different
Sandwich in Kent. the first ever fast food was named after The Earl of Sandwich. and the last open golf championship was held here.

[Swampy]

Ain't it hard getting the ball down those narrow hard fairways? :D

[sandman]

You know what Bryan when i re-read what i'd written i knew someone would say that . it would be the kind of thing i'd pick up on .

This was taken a week before the open and i heard that the winner , yes another yank ,Ben Curtis ,spent a week here getting used to it , Tiger Woods rented a house down the road and then flew in from London each morning .

In the unlikely event you ever come over, here's how to get out :D .

Brian.

Should be in mono , but i could'nt be bothered .
Bryan ,see you've hit unlucky 13.

[sandman]

Another fishing village, (i love them), this time Looe in Cornwall.

Brian

[t.hanz]

heres some

[t.hanz]

A rose by any other color is still a rose.

[sandman]

If this thread had a vote for B&W flowers that rose would win it for me .not too many posters here lately including the starter of this thread KEITH , come on you started it and have posted some great mono seascapes before .
I'll post another to keep this alive ,some of the other forums have a separate B & W thread , just an idea?.

This a small jetty with rowing boats each side .

Brian

[KeithM]

True Brian - I've been quiet on the picture front lately. However one new lens plus a weekend in Wales got the trigger finger going again.

This shot is of the newer lighthouse at St Annes Head at the entrance to Milford Haven ( where the Sea Empress ran aground - right underneath the lighthouse :rolleyes: )

I'll endeavour to post some more, promise !! :)

Keith

[KeithM]

Just step a bit closer to read what the sign says and.....

Keith.

[Andre]

I thought this was appropriate for this thread.
I took this today - it is outside the Museum of Science and Technology.

Taken with 24-120VR @ F/8 1/32 ISO100.

[Andre]

Another...

[t.hanz]

I think so, maybe?

[KeithM]

Been discussing this with my colleagues, whilst thumbing through a dictionary ( cheating, I know ) ...

Consensus is that monochrome means one colour ( single wavelength of light ) so any colour or single hue is OK. Not sure though that a 'monochrome' image strictly speaking includes white - I would suggest that black to peak amplitude 'colour' is correct.

Purely black and white ( via grey ) is achromatic - as in 'without colour' - usally applied to lenses ( to infer correction for chromatic aberation ) but also means that all ( visible ) wavelengths are visible in the correct proportion to give the sensation of white ( allowing for the eye's auto-white balance ! ).

Not exactly as per common usage ! :)

But enough of semantics - back to the real subject of taking photographs !!

Keith.

[KeithM]

Lunchtime walk yesterday...

Nikkor 45mm, f/2.8P, exposure f/4 at 1/500s, std/std/soft, usm'd and resized.

Greyscaled using 50% red and 50% green and slight tint.

Keith.

[sandman]

Lunchtime , whats that ?. is that the 5 minutes between working 6 hours in the morning and the 7 hours in the afternoon.

Nice pics .

Brian

[KeithM]

Thanks Brian..

Lunchtime - a benefit of working for ( ahem, being in the employ of ) an employer !! :D

I'm lucky enough to 'work' next to some countryside ( that funny green stuff with wildlife in it ! ) but don't get out often enough.

Yesterday made a nice change.

Perhaps it's time for a running theme of images :)

Keith.

[smunky]

T.hanz:
What lens did you use for that flower shot, its great!

[t.hanz]

Hey,

I used a Tamron 90mm macro, I once thought 90mm was to short for macro on my 35mm, but with the 1.5x factor of the S2 it's a great focal length now. I also have a pn-11 extension tube that I used alot with my 35mm gear, I oughta dig it out and try some digital shots with it and the Tamron.

The Tamron was a good choice for me at the time I bought it because of the price compared to Nikons 105mm. I have come to appreciate it more, it's a great lens at a great price.

Todd

[sandman]

Keith, often wondered why my drivers get ten times more tea breaks than me , now i know .:)

Another scene from Rye.

[bestshot]

Hi Keith,

You've indeed been making up for loss time :D I like the image of the sea waves you've posted.....

Been busy myself..... will try to heed Brian's call to keep this thread alive....
Will post some images later....

Regards,
Dennis :cool:D

[bestshot]

Brian,

Nice shot.... I like the play of the light and shadow in the arc and the way it framed the highlight of the house.....

Regards,
Dennis

[Linda G]

Great work!

And I'm very glad to see this thread still alive! I am going through 600 some images of my own and about that many of my husband's from our trip, will try to get some ready to post this weekend. Some, I'm sure, will make great B&W!

Had a wonderful time but with our help, a taxi driver or his next passenger got a great gift of laptop. :(

Linda

[justinb]

Thought I would post this and see if it counts. I actually like the original color version better...it is almost black and white except for the vegetation in the background, but rules are rules.

Justin

[sandman]

Dennis, thanks, it's not easy searching through 4'000 images to find some suitable for conversion. but i'll try to post one now and again .
Linda. read Mels post , glad you enjoyed it so much , (except for the taxi ride) post some shots mono or colour ,we would love to see them.
Justin , no rules really , i've a shot almost the same , but it got a few headstones in as well .

Keep black and white alive , after all it's where most of us started .

Brian

[KeithM]

Brian,

You're absolutely right - spent many darkroom days breathing the fumes and watching images appear on the paper !

To be really mad, fit green filter to lens, set camera to B&W/Hard/Hard, Sunny WB, ISO800 and pretend you're using push-processed HP5 :D

I think I will !

Keith.

[Keith7]

This flower is about the size of a almond.

[Linda G]

Okay,

QUICK one!

Roman ruins are abandoned eveywhere as the country struggles to find money to feed people and none left over for archeology.

Near our hotel, we found an abandoned excavation area with what looked to be an orchard of ruins. Here's one.

[Sleeping Bear]

Saw these standing to attention inside the Yule Marble Quarry in Marble, Colorado. Shot them in B/W mode.

[toners]

A foggy day at Sutter's Mill down the road in Coloma, where gold was discovered in 1848. The mist rendered the monochrome effect, with no assistance needed from Photoshop.

Tony

[t.hanz]

Sleeping Bear,
That is an awesome shot of the boots, did you do any post processing after using BW setting, I really Like it, reminds me of a depression era photo, realy nice!

[Sleeping Bear]

I used levels in photoshop elements to just brighten it up a bit and add a tiny bit of contrast. I'm glad you like the shot, it's one of my favorites from this project in the quarry.

[sandman]

Thanks Tony,
I'd forgotten you can save on processing by using natural mist .:D .

no de-sat at all just levels ,like tony's

[sandman]

converted to lose the green in the grass .

[bestshot]

linda,

sorry to hear about your laptop. .... but hey, your first post is indeed a good subject for a b/w image....

can't wait to see the rest of the 600....:D :D

dennis

[bestshot]

brian,

4000 images is a whole lot.....no wonder you're not running out of images to post..... :D :D

your last post is like a scene from the movie gladiator and lord of the rings..... cool mood....

dennis

:)

[Swampy]

wish the boat was bigger...

[Linda G]

Boat? <g> I didn't see the boat until I read your lament. What an image! Very powerful.

[Linda G]

Dennis,

600+ images of my own, a few difficult ones of my husband's who turns them over to my 'expert' touch, plus making webpages and calendars (yes, we've been asked to make a calendar.....2004!!!!) in a big hurry, getting images ready to post may take a bit of time.

So what am I doing now? Resting, of course!

:D

[sandman]

Dennis
You're a lot closer than you think , the opening scenes from Gladiator supposedly set in a German forest ,were actually shot in a forest in South east england in Surrey. The English Forrestry Commission had to thin out the forest anyway so let Ridley Scott do it for them, (no doubt for a massive amount of money).

My shots were taken a couple of years ago , on the border of Kent/Surrey. so they might actually be part of the same tree belt.

But no conection at all with Lord of the Rings. that honour goes to Steph , who comes from the same part of England (the ribble valley) where Tolkien. named many of the streets and villages in the ''Shire '', apparently he used to walk through the valley when he was a youth.
More useless information .:D swampy could be right i do talk to much .

Brian

[Linda G]

Don't you hate it when you know all this useless stuff (Trivial Persuit champ, here) and none of the stuff that pays or really matters?

[sandman]

Never lost a trival pursuit yet Linda ,no one plays with me anymore ..:D . We ought to get together .:) :) . (don't mean it Mel , one Lynda in my house is enough).

Brian

[Linda G]

I know the feeling, but where I put the car keys is still a mystery!

I did lose at Trivial Persuit once....what was Archie Bunker's son-in-law's name? All I could think of was Meathead Stivick! Couldn't come up with the Michael and they weren't feeling generous. I mean, sheesh! I remembered Stivick! What part of THAT was necessary?

[sandman]

Archie Bunker was the US version of our ''till death do us part'' the son-in-law in the british version was played by Tony Booth the father of Cherie Booth our prime ministers wife.
how am i doing?.

Brian
.
.
Someone post a picture and get this back on thread ..

[Linda G]

Taken on the run through Ploesti, Romania. In color, the walls are bright red and the flowers are purple. It caught my eye and looks good in color, but we need an image, monchrome or there abouts, here.

[sandman]

back to sanity.
a view under tower bridge road . london.

[coughlin47]

Toronto - walkway as you go into Union Station from the stadium area.
Bill

[sandman]

Great shot Bill, just made for a mono image.

Brian
ps just 3 more like that and you'll be a MEMBER..:) :)

[Keith7]

Train station in Zurich

[Tom V]

I looked for a shot that I thought looked okay in color, but that I had never considered for grayscale.

Shot against an early evening sky, slow shutter, on-camera flash. Converted to L*A*B, used L channel, adjusted levels and curves, USM.

Some terrific shots are in this thread, this should balance those.

[Linda G]

I like the contrast but the shadows keep pulling me back in curiosity. Almost looks like you layed them on an image of the sky to photograph.

I've always loved this type of shot but have not been real successful with it. Don't know why, but never thought to use flash. Weird. There always seem to be some corners a mind has to be taken by the hand to turn and other times a mind can't understand other's hesitation. Thanks for the kind hand....

Linda--who's glad she wasn't pushed

[Andre]

What do you think of this in B&W?

[Linda G]

Looks great. I recognize your favorite light house. :)

[Andre]

Originally posted by Linda G
Looks great. I recognize your favorite light house. :)

Thanks :)
Yup, I had to get the lighthouse in. It's about an hour's drive from my house, so I took a lot of pictures of it.

[jhawk1000]

Here is a converted B&W from Rothenburg Germany---rooftops of the town from the watch tower.

Mel

[jhawk1000]

And another one from Rothenberg from the watch tower.

Mel

[bestshot]

hey guys,

i envy the time you have to post your images..... amidst the numerous batches from which to choose from....:D :D that's just great...

got to go back to work..... will try to sneak out from an editing i need to do for a shoot last weekend.....

regards,
dennis

[Keith7]

Zurich lake front

[sandman]

Dennis can't speak for Linda but i've got to edit,post, drink coffee, eat breakfast, do the a/c 's , answer e-mails , take phone calls , send out drivers , all before 8.00am , all at the same time . then go out for a days work untill 6.00pm .(Anthony thinks my shots look fuzzy , after 30-40 12 hr days i'm not surprised).

Keith7 nice shot works well .

Mel another idea i had'nt thought about ...roofdrops.. got a couple ..
.
.
my home town of Medway, from Rochester Castle.

Brian.

Image did'nt load so i'll put it on the end .

[sandman]

And a couple of Rye.

[sandman]

South facing aspect ,looking out over the channel , well it's over the horizon somewhere.
Both taken , not from a watchtower , but from a church belltower.
Brian

[sandman]

Try again.. from Rochester Castle

[KeithM]

Here in the UK, we seem to have trouble with autumn and winter - the leaves fall and the trains stop. Snow falls and we all start sliding around the roads bumping into things. We all act surprised as if we'd never seen winter before.

Not the squirrels ! Spotted this one at the weekend ( my partner, and her daughter, were visiting her grandad's grave so I left them to contemplate and went for a walk - big cemetary in Redditch to those who live in the town btw... ).

Lens used was the Nikkor 45mm, f/2.8P. Camera settings were B+W/std/soft, fine 3024jpeg, sunny-WB, iso100 and a green filter on the lens. Exposure was f/5.6 at 1/90s. Image processing - bit of dodging, burning and USM plus a hint of tint.

The shot was a bit hurried - he was watching me very nervously. I got one more shot a bit closer ( he'd started to move ) but then he ran off. This one has the best pose though.

A longer lens would have been good - doh :)

Next post is a tight crop showing the little chubby fellow !

Keith.

[KeithM]

100% crop from the full size version of the above...

Keith.

[bestshot]

shot this in a camp last weekend...
:D
dennis

[bestshot]

and this one too...:D

[bestshot]

my 4 month old daughter....

[bestshot]

sorry, phoebe was only 2 months in the previous image..... this is where she's 4 1/2 months old..... dad's getting older.....:D
dennis

[bestshot]

used one visatec 600watts, an umbrella and a reflector on the side..... wish she had a bigger room....:)

dennis

[minotauro]

Sorry for being far from the forum for a while.
Here's mine.

[minotauro]

another one...

[minotauro]

again..

[sandman]

Beautiful shots of your daughter ,Dennis ,make the most of them at that age , you wait till she's a teenager , you'll wish she was crawling around again..:) :) .

Lovely shots
Brian

[bestshot]

Will definitely take your advice, Brian.....

I remember your post wherein you said how you wished you were able to photograph your kids at their formative years....

Thanks to the digital age..... no need to run to the photo store and labs for films.... :D :p

Dennis

[Scubagrapher]

OK I don't have my S2 YET. But it's coming soon I hope. Meanwhile I thought I'd post one I took with my 602, I like B&W. Comments, criticism, etc welcome.

[sandman]

OK Duane, now it does'nt quite work for me ,there's too much empty space on the left, but i can see a good image in their, hope you don't mind , i've done a crop, a bit of dodging and burning, it proberby looked good in colour but for me foliage does'nt convert to well. as i said hope you don't mind . aalso i'm doing this on my laptop and sometimes the contrast does'nt come out as mean it too , it was a quick fix, i'll look a little closer when i get in on my desktop.

Brian

[Scubagrapher]

Thanks Brian, I don't mind at all. What I was going for with the empty space to the left was the contast of the bright sunlight on the face of the cliff to the shadows on the left side. I really didn't capture the effect I was going for. It would make more sense if you saw the scene live. On the left, some of the rocks hidden in the shadow almost looked like they had their own illumination.

[sandman]

Duane how many times have we all taken great shots ,got them home and sensed a feeling of anti-climax , none of our shots have the same effect on print as they do live , i'll bet all of swampys sunset shots were twice as good ''live''.
Thanks for understanding the reason for my changes.

Brian.
ps the sky has'nt burnt in as deeply as i wanted ,the perils of laptop editing

[Swampy]

bump

[sandman]

Nice as the golden gate is , lets get back to England in winter,

De-sat and colourised to get that cool feel .

Brian

[Serge]

Originally posted by sandman
Nice as the golden gate is , lets get back to England in winter,

De-sat and colourised to get that cool feel .

Brian

Brian,

just had to respond to this shot, love it, would look great framed,
I wonder how many people actually produce photo decor from their work?

There is enough great material on this forum for a Fuji calendar...
maybe even a "S2Pro.com" calendar :)

[sandman]

Thank you Serge, the idea of taking pictures is always to see them in print , oh it's nice and conveinient to view them on your monitor, but print should always be their final destination.
on the whole i try to print out at least one 8x10 from a days shoot , but only if it's good enough :) .
But as Linda G laments ''so many prints , so little wallspace''.

This B&W thread has given me and many others the chance to go back to our roots and look at shots in a different way , Light and Form .and for that i thank Keith M .
And as an old pro (if you'll forgive the expression) i value your comments a lot .Thank you.

Brian .

[Linda G]

I used to have a great opportunity for sharing my photographs when I was a newspaper photographer. We were a small enough city that there wasn't that much hard news to capture on film (although there were three, one major, train derailments the year I was on the job) so I had to find stuff and some of it was fun stuff that would get orders for reprints.

No, I got none of the money, but I did get a feeling of making someone happy.

I am getting ready now, for my first gallery show and I find I'm lost! I've waited way too long in my life to narrow down all my images to 20. I have no guidelines other than the area will hold 20 16x20s and I can put in smaller ones in that same space, just please fill it. AARRRGGG!!!

http://members.cox.net/gallerychoices/selection/index.htm

that is a page where I put a 'few' of them I wasn't sure about. Any comments are very welcome! Many are not even cropped, but just corrected and posted.

I love seeing emotions from others as they view something I've tried to capture and my husband is having a showing at the local nature preserve next spring.

We are working on projects brought back from our trip to Romania, including a calendar for the school we spent time in...a sports school with many talented atheletes!!

Well, off to PhotoShop!


Thanks for listening to ME ramble and I'll try to find something to post later to keep it in the monochrome sphere.

[Serge]

Hello Linda,

I have just looked at your on-line gallery, very nice.
My choice out of many, include the leaning snow clad trees and the shot of the barn next to it. Also the sombre rendition of the trees with dappled light on the forest floor. There are many thematic possibilities there.

I always find it difficult to edit my own work, we get too close, and
it becomes hard to be objective.
After entering the Nikon Photo Contest International for many years, I finally managed a 3rd prize on my ninth attempt with one of five entries, the one I least expected the judges to choose...
go figure..

[sandman]

Don't want to overdo it , but as Serge liked my first picture , i'll post one more from the same shoot.

Brian

[Linda G]

I'm about edited out! Over a thousand images from our trip, gotta get some written to cd for the people we met there plus a calendar for the school we photographed and normal, hectic life.

Here's an image taken somewhere from the train window in the heart of Romania.

[Swampy]

I've often thought about how to go about showing prints, and what would happen if I were limited to space. I've thought of showing some prints as prints, and having a slideshow going with lots of other prints with a "catalog" number imbedded on the print where people could make an order for one they saw on the screen. It's a long shot, but it's more exposure.

[SSonnentag]

A client wanted a photograph that looked like a pencil-drawn image so that it would match the other artwork in his publication. I think the main reason for this type of images is the fact that they photocopy pretty well, unlike photographs. Anyway. I thought it turned out pretty well. Comments?

Shawn

[Sleeping Bear]

Originally posted by SSonnentag
A client wanted a photograph that looked like a pencil-drawn image so that it would match the other artwork in his publication. I think the main reason for this type of images is the fact that they photocopy pretty well, unlike photographs. Anyway. I thought it turned out pretty well. Comments?

Shawn

I'd say it turned out great! Is this an auto thing in Photshop or did you have to hold it by the hand?

Sleeping Bear

Ron

[SSonnentag]

It's mostly auto... I converted to grayscale, then selected the "Poster Edges" preset under Artistic on the Colored Pencil FIlter in Photoshop CS. CS has tons of filters that PS7 doesn't have. I'm having fun with all the new tools. Then I adjusted the contrast to get blacker blacks and whiter whites, like a drawing. :)

Shawn

[sandman]

Nicely done Shawn, you can get almost the same using 'Elements 'but it takes an awfull lot of laterial thinking as well as the limited filters in 'Elements'. might just have to order CS now.
While on the subject of B & W has their been enough interest shown to justify a seperate forum.? i think there just might be.
(although i've just about run out of shots to post):D .


Brian

[Serge]

Originally posted by sandman
Don't want to overdo it , but as Serge liked my first picture , i'll post one more from the same shoot.

Brian

Brian,

I really like the first one better for its cleaner
"classical" look, the thing with framing a shot as you have done there is, is to achieve the right balance. Thats what I tell my students anyway, and have to apply to myself in constant re-editing :D

...and Linda,

if thats a "grab" shot from a train, then to coin a Cartier Bresson expression...
you have captured the DECISIVE MOMENT!
it speaks heaps... very poignant, and B/W is definitely the correct choice of medium.


(at the risk of sounding opinionated)

[sandman]

Must agree Serge the first one is the better one out of all the ones taken that day , thought i'd throw in the other one as a filler . lesson here is ''just enough and no more''.:) .
What i really want to know is. why you're indoors and not out in rain watching England wallop your lot at rugby today.:D :D .
I'll be watching the World cup final on TV . first time i've seen Sydney in the rain , Bondi beach looks like any English beach today.
Maybe you're not a sports fan , and i might be eating my words in a few hours time .(would'nt be the first time).
For our American friends Rugby is american football but without all the protective gear.

Brian

[Serge]

.....I have to confess at not being a huge rugby fan Brian, used to take my boys under sufference,
but my wife will watch it under sufference, so just she can talk to them about the game :confused:

... but yeah its a rainy "english" evening here tonight...lets see what happens :rolleyes:

[sandman]

Bad luck.Tremendous game , but i've no more fingernails left .

Brian

[Linda G]

When visiting Hamburg last April, we were treated to a pro soccer game. I've seen rugby, and there was a small, thrown together league around a few years ago, but it didn't survive, I'm afraid.
My husband's on his way to see the Kansas U vs Iowa State football game today. Silly guy, it's going to be COLD! I am going to be processing images from our trip. Another day in front of a computer.


Here's another quick shot of a guy in Deva, Romania, selling local pottery, woodwork and textiles at the market. I was about the only tourist there and he obliged by coming back out so I could photograph him. It's really colorful, but all the textures translate to B&W well.

[Sleeping Bear]

I'm with Sandman, how about a seperate forum for B/W? Just look at the response/interest from the Simon Says thread!

Sleeping Bear

Ron

[sandman]

Well we got our wish Ron , lets hope we can now do it justice .
I'm going to have to shot some fresh ones , most of mine have been taken up in the ''challenge'' section.
I'll proberbly still shoot on colour then convert as that will give me more options.
But i might shoot B&W in camera, to see if the S2 or a PS convert is different .
Its wet and windy here today , so i might go out ,and try and emulate some B&W high ISO moody shots , but then i might stay in and keep warm , but the dogs tails wagging , so it's photo time:D

Brian.

[Serge]

Originally posted by sandman
Bad luck.Tremendous game , but i've no more fingernails left .

Brian


...nuff said...
but you've got to admit, it was one heck of a comeback:D

[sandman]

Hmmmm , interesting refereeing decisions .
When i was younger i played county cricket at at 'B' level . I hired this Aussie driver about 8 years ago , and he found out and really gave me some stick when you won the Ashes.
Now normally i can give and take , but it got so nasty and out of hand both with me and the other drivers , that for the first and last time in my life i let personalities rule my decision to let him go.
So you'll forgive me if i have a little smile to myself today.

Brian

[Serge]

Originally posted by sandman
Hmmmm , interesting refereeing decisions .
When i was younger i played county cricket at at 'B' level . I hired this Aussie driver about 8 years ago , and he found out and really gave me some stick when you won the Ashes.
Now normally i can give and take , but it got so nasty and out of hand both with me and the other drivers , that for the first and last time in my life i let personalities rule my decision to let him go.
So you'll forgive me if i have a little smile to myself today.

Brian

Brian,

we all know how Religion, Politics and...Sport
can get people off side (pun intended), so there shoulb be little risk in dealing with F stops and shutter speeds :cool:

... go ahead , gloat away, guilt free :D :D