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

please leave comments.

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

Bill

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.

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

Not sure i know what you mean by workflow??

Bill

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.

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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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
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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.