I konw what you mean - When my Dad (brough up with hand held light meters, fully manual cameras etc) talks in terms of film latitude and other technicalities, it exposes the frailties in my essentially point and shoot mentality. I justify it citing the one big freedom digital gives us all, the opprtunity to experiment without waste! The skills of an experienced 'old school' practitioner will never lose value, but times change. Looking at your photos and those of other posters, I ask myself whether the lack of true technical knowledge of classical photography techniques reduces their intrinsic value. I honestly don't think so!
--Kev G
... I was hoping to get some solid constructive criticism of these. I
realize there are a lot of photos here and I don't expect you to
look at every one. But of those that you do look at it would
really help me if you could give specific feedback.
Thanks in advance for looking...
the whole gallery can be found at:
http://www.lizawallis.com/BW
liza
and here is one image to get you started:
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http://www.lizawallis.com
http://www.lizawallis.com/photography
Liza, thanks for stopping by over there, I value your opinion. You know, in this forum I sometimes get frustrated with all the gab on 'discontinued' models and stuff that won't be available for months etc., but is you and a handful of others that make me keep coming back.
Thank you Perry... I may well decide to post it on the samples and gallery forum as all this feedback has been incredibly helpful as well as confidence building for me. I do need to redo the gallery however because it is not viewable by people who have Macs. Some weird behavior with my source code
Hi Gene... thank you for your comments.... The naming issue has been brought up before so I think I need to pay heed to that. It is a very good suggestion. Trust me on the "stevie shore" photo... it was simply awful in color. Converting to BW was an attempt to salvage it.
Thank you very much for saying this Steve... Sometimes I think I should shut up a bit more. I am glad to hear that you don't feel the same way.
Aw, c'mon... that shot in the samples and gallery forum was great. You walk around there long enough and a mouse is bound to show up. By the way, I still want to see it in a different b&w... a rust duotone or a blue duotone or even a darker B&W... it has a lot going for it.
Thank you Steve... I look forward to seeing more of your work
--www.lizawallis.comwww.lizawallis.com/photography
--Best Regards,Todd MedleyRedmond, WA http://public.fotki.com/wagatorfan/
Yes David... Thank you
Hmmm... I am not sure whether I prefer it in color or black and white
hopefully not, since I am a complete sucker for them as well.any shots with a fence - I'm a sucker for fences. Hopefully there's
nothing psychologically twisted about that.
Really, you don't have thunderstorms in Washington? I never knew that. The sky that day was incredible. Actually the spot where I took that shot from frequently has the most incredible skies and light.
This photo is proving most interesting in the feedback... people with like it or really dislike it. I remain undecided. I just know that the color version was quite awful.
Thank you Todd for taking the time to look and comment. I reloaded the whole site about an hour before you posted this so I don't know whether it was fixed when you saw it. I am still waiting for a Mac person to let me know whether it is working now.
--www.lizawallis.comwww.lizawallis.com/photography
--SFJPwww.pbase.com/sfjpI have just uploaded a new gallery of Black and White photos. If a
few of these look familiar it's because I have posted them here
before. Most of them are new.
I was hoping to get some solid constructive criticism of these. I
realize there are a lot of photos here and I don't expect you to
look at every one. But of those that you do look at it would
really help me if you could give specific feedback.
As for methods used... One of the photos was shot with a hoya
infrared filter. All the others were shot in color and then
converted in photoshop in the post processing. I heavily relied on
the channel mixer and also "glick efx" Infrared photoshop filter.
I did use Fred Miranda's Infrared action on one or two. Some of
them were also converted to duotones if I thought the B&W effect
needed a little extra punch.
Thanks in advance for looking...
the whole gallery can be found at:
http://www.lizawallis.com/BW
liza
and here is one image to get you started:
--
http://www.lizawallis.com
http://www.lizawallis.com/photography
hmmm what do red filters do? Deepen the skies in B/W photography? I think I really would like to get very good with black and white so any tips are greatly appreciated
Whoa... thank you.
Hmmm interesting... this is one of my favorites. Perhaps the fact that I used a digital infrared filter in the post processing made it too white. I may have to go back and try it with the channel mixer and see what I get.
Really? this is so interesting... you are right of course that the contrast issue seems to be a never ending challenge... do I go for more contrast and blow out some highlights. or less contrast and muddy things up. I worked hard trying to find a balance so I am glad to see that I was not alone and that this perhaps is not an easy process for others either.
oh excellent... I would like to see some from you. Once thing though... I don't think your miniatures would lend themselves to the B/W conversion!
