Velvia Conversion to B&W

[Sanford]

M6 with 50mm Summicron on Velvia converted to Black & White. Would

like to see examples of others doing this.<div></div>

[ronald_wills]

That's beautiful Sanford. Velvia looks to convert well to black and white. Nice

job.

[scott_k.]

Looks alot like B&W with a red filter on it... to contrasty for no filter.

[djl251]

Here's one that looks better in black and white. It certainly makes

for a high contrast image. See also:

http://www.photo.net/photo/411785<div></div>

[tim_k1]

Here is another Velvia converted picture.<div></div>

[tim_k1]

Here is the above picture in the original<div></div>

[howard_clapsaddle]

First of all, the comparison isn't very useful if we don't know how the conversion to BW was made or how much tweaking went on.

Sanford, I could not make "head 'nor tail" of your first picture. Not very striking in my view.

Your second one (high-tension wires) is a much a better image. Its also interesting how its a totally different picture from the original version.

[sheridan]

Sanford. That's some beautiful tonality there... <p> Tim. I like that red looking

cloud on the top left.

[ian_everhov]

Converted from velvia in ps, scanned with a epson 2450.<div></div>

[ian_everhov]

And the original...

[ellis_vener_photography]

I have posted examples of Color to B&W conversions at the following url <a href =

http://www.ellisvener.com/color-to-B&W/>http://www.ellisvener.com/color-to-

B&W/</a>.

They were made using the color to B&w conversion tools in Photokit , a plug-in built

for Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Because the conversion is done as a layer on top of the

base image, each cnversion filter can be adjusted from 0 to 100% opacity. Also

because the conversion is done as a layer you can blend the filters to a certain

degree. It is worth trying at any rate. an even better way to work with filtering

different areas or color of the image would be to use masking tools and, for example,

use a red filter on the sky, and a yellow filter on his face and hat. <P>

I also used the auto feature in curves (once I had flattened the layers) sothat the

relative luminosity of the images, especially with the blue and green filters, were

closer. Other wise the guy's face would have been a muddy mess.

<P>Here is the URL for PhotoKit: www.pixelgenius.com

[andy_piper2]

In this folder: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=136232

 

pictures 1,3,4,5,6 were all converted from Velvia.

 

The scans/conversions were made before I became "color managed/calibrated", so they are darker than I would prefer these days.

 

I usually convert using Photoshop's "Saturation" controls: desaturate, and then tweak the "lightness" of the 6 primary colors by hand, all in one step. It's more controllable than a straight B&W scan of the slide, and more intuitive (to me) than using the channel mixer.

 

But for some pictures, simply converting to L*A*B color and deleting the AB color channels works well, too.