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I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel, which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
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http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
 
Ed,

I like the picture, nice glow effect from the centre of the flower. Did you use any flash? I am interested in the NIkon SB 29 macro flash but I expect its very expensice.

Regards,

Nighthawk
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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That's a really nice shot. I've been very pleased with the B&W conversions I'm getting from the D100. It seems to produce a really pleasing tonality.

John

http://www.pbase.com/lacustrine/random_sampling
Nighthawk said:
I like the picture, nice glow effect from the centre of the flower.
Did you use any flash? I am interested in the NIkon SB 29 macro
flash but I expect its very expensice.

Regards,

Nighthawk
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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Great pic! I'm hoping to be able to get a D100 soon...

Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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Ooops... Forgot to ask. Did you take the pic in B&W or did you change it to B&W in Photoshop or another image editing program?

Andy
adkmedic said:
Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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Hi Nighthawk,

No flash, incadescant light and a relatively long exposure. The original image was lit more towards the center because of the relatively short light to subject distance. The bright center of the image was done with some judiciously applied radial gradient.

I have taken some other exposures with an SB-80DX, and can tell you that it is a jewel of a flash. I haven't worked with any other TTL flashes with the D100, and have not used the SB-29. Good luck.

Ed
Nighthawk said:
I like the picture, nice glow effect from the centre of the flower.
Did you use any flash? I am interested in the NIkon SB 29 macro
flash but I expect its very expensice.

Regards,

Nighthawk
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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Hi Andy,

I took the picture as a normal (NEF) color shot because the D100 doesn't have a B&W mode. I did the conversion in PS7, which I prefer anyway, because you can do so much with the contrast and color channels before you desaturate the picture.

Ed
adkmedic said:
Andy
adkmedic said:
Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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Thanks for answering my question Ed! I'm trying to save my pennies for a D100... I recently read somewhere that the best way to get a good b&w shot digitally is to take it in color and then convert in photoshop or something... You have proved them correct! I use Photoshop Elements 2.0 and was looking at the miranda website... Do you know why his plug-ins wouldn't work with PS Elements?

Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I took the picture as a normal (NEF) color shot because the D100
doesn't have a B&W mode. I did the conversion in PS7, which I
prefer anyway, because you can do so much with the contrast and
color channels before you desaturate the picture.

Ed
adkmedic said:
Andy
adkmedic said:
Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
1 sec
f22

http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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Hi Andy,

I can't answer that one for you. I don't have any insight into the differences between PS and PS Elements, so that one might be a question for Fred Miranda, or someone else on the forum. Sorry I can't be of help here.

The other point of B&W on PS I actually find preferable to the camera doing it. I had a 995, which produced very nice B&W, but I can do much more with NEF in Photoshop than I could in the camera.

Ed
adkmedic said:
Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I took the picture as a normal (NEF) color shot because the D100
doesn't have a B&W mode. I did the conversion in PS7, which I
prefer anyway, because you can do so much with the contrast and
color channels before you desaturate the picture.

Ed
adkmedic said:
Andy
adkmedic said:
Andy
Ed Grimes said:
I know, I know ... this is just another boring flower picture, but
I thought the effect was interesting, and thought I'd share it with
the forum.

I took the picture with the nikkor 105 f1.8 Micro, which is one of
my favorite lenses. The B&W was captured from the Red channel,
which had a very nice range of contrast.

Comment welcome.

Ed

D100
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http://www.pbase.com/image/4800011
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