From the kitchen drawers

Mundane kitchen objects seen from different perspective.

Not sure how many photos are allowed in a post. I attach 5 in each.

Last set. 3 are not kitchen stuff.

I like these. Very much. Light is great. In my book you've got the B&W processing pat down. I'd hang some of these on my wall.

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. 👍

These are resized from jpegs. My Fujifilm camera has many options for film simulations and also shadow/highlight/white balance shift etc can be adjusted.

The photos were taken handheld, on my kitchen worktop and in extreme low light. I think the lens performed rather well.

Thanks for your comment.

Cheers.

... that not every macro shot needs to be focus stacked, and there is beauty in blur.

Bravo!

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.

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.

Thanks, Joseph.

Yes, I've heard of focus stacking technique. I only work with jpegs so I need to get them right in camera as much as possible.

Happy JPEGer wrote:

Thanks, Joseph.

You're welcome.

Yes, I've heard of focus stacking technique. I only work with jpegs so I need to get them right in camera as much as possible.

I'm pretty sure an X-T30 II can do an actual focus stack in-camera and deliver you a fully stacked JPEG. If not, it may still be able to shoot a focus bracketed sequence which you can stack in a program like Zerene or Helicon. The focus stacking programs don’t normally have raw processing (or at least not "good" raw processing) so you want to feed then JPEG files anyway.

Just a thought. I think you're doing great without stacking.

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.

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.