Gritty B&W street style

Could anyone please point me towards recreating the B&W street photography style with photoshop? I know the key elements seem to be high contrast and quite a bit of grain, I was wondering whether there are any tips / sites / actions on this

Many thanks
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Jen K said:

Could anyone please point me towards recreating the B&W street
photography style with photoshop? I know the key elements seem to be
high contrast and quite a bit of grain, I was wondering whether there
are any tips / sites / actions on this

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You could check out my action:

http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
"Kent's B&W Selective Color 4

It sets up adjustment layers for B&W conversion, includes curves adjustment and grain generator that applies grain like film - heavier in the shadows, less in mids and even less in highs. The 'contrast' thing would come after getting good tonal values and deciding which details to lose for effect.

Other links. If you have CS3 check out the last Martin Evening link

B&W conversion

Good Summary of basic methods of B&W with actions

http://www.dynamicartwork.com/articles/digital_bw
http://photoworkshop.com/registered/softwarecinema/kost_advanced/index2.html
“color to b&w” movie – good instructs on channel mixer. ^
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031&message=17471082
more instructs on channel mixer and beyond^

Petteri on B&W

* http://www.prime-junta.net/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html

Good B&W tut

http://www.peimag.com/pdf/pei03/pei0102_03/darlowpei0102_03.pdf

B&W Russell Brown movies

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
Dr. Brown's RAW Photo Styler – how to do B&W in RAW
Photo Toner Technique with action
Seeing in Black & White – two hue/sat layer method w/pdf
Film Grain with action

LAB method

http://www.journalofaphotographer.com/workflow_tutorials/tutorial_converting_color_images_to_black_and_white.php

Gradient Map action

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=16042438

Martin Evening on B&W in RAW*

http://lightroom-news.com/2007/08/24/tips-for-better-black-and-white-conversions/

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Jen,

A couple of years ago, Andy Williams (not the singer) posted a "tutorial" on a "Tri-X Pan Look. It turns out some great looking shots. Unfortunately, the pics are no longer there, but, here is a link to the thread:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=8849727

Give it a tri!!

sj
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They look very useful Kent.

thanks for posting (Great as always!)

Good tutorial. Thanks for linking to it.

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Thanks everyone, I'll give these a go )
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