My first Black and Whites

[bmwgsbill]

The following is a gallery of some of my first Balck and whites.

please leave comments.

http://www.pbase.com/bmwgsbill/black_white

Bill

[mpdequalsyfsm]

Enjoyed this gallery very much. B&W is a favorite for me. I try to llok for these galleries here at pbase and enjoy them very much!

The one image of the fence post is a favorite for me!

Thank you for sharing.

[polyvios]

If I didn't knw it was digital I never would have guessed! What's your workflow? (If you don't mind sharing)

[bmwgsbill]

Not sure i know what you mean by workflow??

Bill

[ugot2bkdng]

Bill,

Some nice shots here, like the fence post too.

One thing you may want to consider is the horizon. It is tilted in a couple of the shots to the point of being a bit distracting to me. This is easily corrected in most photo edit software. Of course nothing beats shooting it level to begin with; but, alas, I find myself homing in on the main subject and forgetting the details. How does that go? The devil is in the details?

I think polyvios is asking what is the exact process you used to get the black and white photos. Do you have a B&W mode on your camera for example? Or did you convert a color shot to B&W in Photoshop or similar software? If so, what conversion technique did you use? Stuff like that.

[bmwgsbill]

My camera is an Olympus C700UZ and i put it on black and white and i mess around a little with them a little in adobe photoshop. I have yet to figure out how to take color to black and white in adobe.
hope that helps.

Bill

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[bmwgsbill]

I see what you mean by the horizon being crooked or tilted. thanks for pointing that out, i need constructive critism like that. I will work on tweaking them a little and see how it turns out.

Bill
http://www.pbase.com/bmwgsbill

[ugot2bkdng]

I have found that a quick and easy way to do that in PS is to select the Measure Tool. Click on a point on the horizon and drag to a second point on the horizon. Then select Image, Rotate Canvas, Arbitrary. There should be a reading of the angle displacement in the popup window. Just click okay and the image will be rotated that amount.

Of course, you will then need to crop the image.