Some B&W pics, that I scanned, lost a little in the scan. Guess I should have negatives scanned, instead of scanning pictures myself.

 

I actually like the brownish tinge to the pics. But you are probably right - the negs would likely have given you better contrast/resolution.

 

I especially like the top right Harley shot. It's got a nice, nostalgic feel to it.

 

Nice!

I like #1 and #5.

 

Thanks guys, I just realized that Penn Camera who printed these, just used color paper to print these. They don't use b&w paper at all.

So I'm going to print a couple next week in my film class, then I'm going to try a company called Black and White in Arlington, Va. who use b&w paper.

I couldn't develop these myself because it was CN film. Note to self no more CN film.

 

I'll be curious to see how different they look, even on scans. If it's significant, I'd love to see the new prints.

 

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reverseimage/2742199893/" title="Cloud B&amp;W by jupitersolo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2742199893_5db1f3ba2e_b.jpg" width="1024" height="560" alt="Cloud B&amp;W" /></a>

 

nice

 

Another amazing photo Jupiter

 

I already told you on Flickr, but

That smaller dark cloud (to the left) superimposed on the lighter one looks like a bird in flight.

 

I got that, thank you, this is another one from tonight.

 

Well I like it, too.

 

Very nice Jupe!

I took a few B&W shots last week and reprocessed a few from the archives. I'll post them in this thread in a bit.

 

D'oh! It looks like I left my lightroom library at work today, so I'll just have to go with what I've already uploaded to flickr from last week...

The Mighty Kootenai
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acurazinedan/2719058457


Infrared Leaf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acurazinedan/2724810887/


Hosta
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acurazinedan/2728799404/

 

Really like the flower, the comp and the texture. for all

 

Your shot really pops jupiter. Nice job. Dan, I dig yours too, especially the flower. It really works well in b&w.

 

The detail and the variety of tones in the first shot is Ridiculous, Dan. Really gorgeous. Did you shoot that with a CP?

 

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!

 

nice stuff - I like the tractor shots. And the cloud shot is wow. Dan posted an inquisitive set as well.

so is IR the new HDR? hehe

 

...ir???

EDIT: 3K!!

 

infra-red

 

VERY NICE! Was this shot with a prime? There's so much dimension to this photo it's amazing, it literally feels like the clouds are coming at me.

And that cloud looks like a phoenix in flight

I should look out the window more.

 

Absolutely love the shot and the PP done on it. I'm horrible with macros, but I want to start learning this.

Great shot Dan!

 

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it.

I didn't use a polaraizer because I find it hard to stitch panoramas together when using a polarizer. This is a four-frame panorama with three exposures for each frame. I didn't really use the exposures to extend the dynamic range all that much, I just wanted to have a completely noise-free image.

The original is 21MP, but there's a 1400px wide version available here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/...23ca618a_o.jpg

 

Thanks! You should definitely give macros a try. It will open your eyes to the little things in life.

The post processing on this shot was really simple. I just converted it to a duotone and resized for the web. I'd probably polish up a few things before sending it to print however.

 

I still love this one

 

^^^




I feel so inferior now


lol

 

Wow, these are all great. I need to remember to use B&W more often.

 

Don't use b&w, convert your images to b&w. If you use B&W in the camera, you lose a lot of detail. Contuine to shoot RAW then "fix" your image , then convert to b&w, you'll get better detail this way.

 

Shot with 50mm 1.4, the "bird", I didn't see it until wndrst said it. In post, I was focusing on getting the "pop" in the brightest clouds.

 

I thought it was with a prime I keep reading about how prim B&W shots give a certian 3D look that can't be acheived with zooms, that is proof right there.

Do you mess around with curves / contrast? Or do you also move Black and White highlights around? I've been trying to get this conversion just right but it's proving a tougher job than just a straight B&W conversion. I hear it's good to have absolute blacks and whites to increase that contrast and to keep focus on the subject.

 

For this one, I pumped up that blacks and then adjusted highlight and shadows to get the definition out of the clouds. I wish I knew more about PS though, I could really do something better with this.

 

It looks pretty good to me

 

Thanks o wise one!

 

 

I really like this flower macro Dan. Out of curiosity, did you use any particular method when moving the camera for the panorama? I'm just curious if the tiny DoF that's inherent to macro would cause problems with the focal plane moving when you repositioned the camera.

 

The flower photo was a single shot, my comment you quoted was about the Kootenai river pano. I have shot macro panos before, and you're right, the depth of field is definitely an issue. I found the only way to do it reliably was to pan the subject (not the camera) and try to shoot as perpendicular as possible.

Speaking of panos, if you haven't already tried it, check out Autopano Pro. I just got it last week and it is really amazing. The blends are seamless and you wouldn't believe how fast it is, especially compared to photomerge in photoshop.

 

Photoshop CS2 or CS3? Many I've talked to has said Adobe got it right with CS3.

 

CS3 is much better than CS2, but Photomerge still takes forever compared to Autopano Pro and the blends are just nowhere near as seamless. I shot 20 panos up at the cottage last week and I was very frustrated with Adobe. After waiting for over 30 minutes for some HDR panos to blend, I still had to spend hours to fix the seams. I tried a demo of Autopano Pro and was shocked when the same pano took less than a minute to render and I had nothing to fix after. It was really that big of a difference.

 

Here's some of my recent b&w's taken with my Nikon N80







I have a few more rolls waiting to be developed. I shoot mainly b&w film.