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Experimenting with black and white
Started September 16, 2010 @ 11:32pm by Robb
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| Experimenting with black and white | September 16, 2010 @ 11:32pm | Just for fun I started messing around with the monochrome settings in my D300s. I'm pretty happy with how this one came out. I'm feeling that shooting black and white is all about finding the contrast in a scene which is also forcing me to be smarter about what I'm shooting. Any suggestions or critiques are welcome.
Nikon D300s
Customized monochrome setting
f/8 1/1250 ISO 400 70mm
JPEG from camera light processing in Aperture. |
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Flo
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| September 17, 2010 @ 9:51am | Robb, I like this image. But I think that you would benefit more by shooting the same scene in color as soon as you've shot it in B&W.
You see, it's my understanding that a color image has more information than one shot in B&W - and this info can be captured later when converting to B&W in PS.
So if you have the same scene shot in both B&W and color, then you can compare them later by converting the color to B&W and playing with the filters and sliders in PS.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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| September 18, 2010 @ 11:47am | Thanks, Flo. I really like it too.
I asked in the D300s forum on flickr and it seems the consensus is to shoot color and process the black and white in post. You're correct about there being more information to work with in the color files as opposed to the monochrome ones. My thinking was that shooting in monochrome in camera would be almost like loading black and white film into the camera.
Thanks for your feedback.
Robb |
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