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Started 2 months ago | Photos thread
meow
meow Veteran Member • Posts: 5,752
Re: Almost snorted tea at "the B&W processing"

Joseph S Wisniewski wrote:

meow wrote:

I like these. Very much. Light is great. In my book you've got the B&W processing pat down.

I don't think there's much "processing". The subjects are simply inherently B&W. Not much color in stainless steel.

What's the correct term then? Editing? It's not like you can't fiddle with curves and so on just because it's B&W.

I'd hang some of these on my wall.

Indeed. Printed in a way that emphasizes their tonality (quad tone B&W, 7 dilution ink process, etc) they could be simply stunning.

And I'm envious. I miss film B&W and can't for the life of me make a decent B&W from digital. And to be honest I think most I see look like crap. These don't. Kudos. 👍

You have to think like a B&W photographer. Envision your tones when you take the picture, and don't forget your original vision before you get a chance to convert it. Notebooks help.

I am a B&W photographer. Or at least I was. How else could I miss it? What I was trying to say was that most often I find B&W conversions poor compared to true B%W with film. My own attempts were the worst of all, so I've given it up for now.

It seems it was the OP's camera that did the processing/editing/whatever, I thought he did it. But that doesn't make them look less good.

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