Digital B&W Photography with 10D

I love B&W portraits and people photography. I would like to hear

from others 10D users how to produce good B&W digital pictures. What

camera settings you adjust before shooting and what adjustments are

made afterwards so the picture look like a good B&W film picture.

 

Thanks for any input

"shoot raw, expose to the right, and you won't have to worry about any other camera settings as everything will be done in post-processing".

i shoot pretty normal, usually at 2/3 stop under metered, in RAW or highest quality jpeg. Try processing with The Imaging Factory's B&W Pro, then add some real film grain to get a better effect.<p>

 

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<i>Two Girls, Copyright 2004 Jeff Spirer</i></center>

Any frequently used Photoshop filters/effects on B&W ?

 

Thank you

Here is a pretty good tutorial: http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/bw/converting_to_bw.htm

I was wondering about the same too.

Jeff, I have always liked your photos, especially your B&W. Your digi shots look like film................what is your trick to conversion ?

 

My conversion looks so smooth, it just doesn't look like film somewhat.......too clean......and when I add noise, it does not look like film either.

 

But then again.........like I said once, and I'll say it again, your famous "Bunny" shot always freaks me out !

 

Wee-Ming

Raw, convert in ps elements using channels plug in.<div></div>

<i>what is your trick to conversion ?</i><p>

 

The trick to the texture is grain. I recently switched to using scanned film grain, applied as a layer, usually with the layer mode on soft light. With hard light mode, you get an ultra-grainy effect. I also tend to like high contrast, which helps the look.<p>

 

 

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<i>Bone Cootes, Copyright 2004 Jeff Spirer</i></center>

 

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<i>your famous "Bunny" shot always freaks me out </i><p>

 

Hah, the bunny is wacked out.

A good way to simulate film is to shoot some.

Gary I agree with you and I have done that for that past 10 years and that is why I love B&W. Now that I am shooting digital, I would like to learn from others how they produce the same great results.

 

Thanks!

I would only like to add, that in photoshop try adding a tiny bit of Noise and your digital b/w photos will be very hard to distinquish from analog. For weddings this effect in indespensible.

 

Greg

Here is a test...

youre overexposed already...

How's this? Step as follows.Layer-adjustment layer-hue satuation-saturation to max negative value. Then filter-texture-grain-apply intensity and contrast to your likeness.<div></div>

<i>A good way to simulate film is to shoot some.</i><p>

 

How do you shoot film in a 10D? He said that's what he has, so your answer indicates some insight into how to do this. I'm just wondering, because mine doesn't seem to take film.

One of the better tutorials is Petteri's <a href="http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html" target="_blank">Digital Black and White</a>

I posted the action I use on my website

 

http://www.fx4.net/nuke/modules.php?

op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=3

 

It's based on a article by Bruce Fraser

Another good PS plugin is at www.pixelgenius.com

shoot RAW, of course.

open in 16 bit mode in PS, open channel mixer. adjsut to your taste. usually you will get a lot of grain effect if you slide the hell out of blue channel to the left, but it depends on the light.