Just "editing" or "processing", no "B&W"
meow wrote:
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?
That, or "processing".
It's not like you can't fiddle with curves and so on just because it's B&W.
But you aren't "fiddling" with anything that is specific to 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.
Odd. I've found conversions often superior.
The biggest problem is you've only got three true filter peaks: red, green, and blue, so you often have to do some estimation math if you're trying to emulate an actual yellow, orange, or violet filter. But... those are filters that can often be used with a high res camera like a Z7. A yellow or orange filter comes out almost full resolution.
A violet filter unfortunately drops resolution to about 22mp equivalent on a 7Z, but that is still quite a bit better than even my old 12mp B&W converted D90.
My own attempts were the worst of all, so I've given it up for now.
Hmm...
Post some (or point me at some in a DM) and I might be able to help.
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.
To me it looked like there wasn't any post, just a basically B&W scene. But I spend a lot of time shooting metal, with just that monochrome look.
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