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A late afternoon walk, murky sort of afternoon too.

Took the T an 18-56, it's light enough to not be a nuisance.

Gary

 

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Here is another photo for you...  T + 50mm Cron-R


 


 


 

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I have been experimenting with B&W for a few days.  Back in the 'Day I had a darkroom and worked in B&W quite a lot - but since digital came along I have not bothered with it much.  I always though it was kind of a waste to do gorgeous colorful flowers in B&W, but it does harken back to early 1800's photography - very nostalgic.  These are shot with the T and a 55 Micro Nikkor - processed in Lightroom,  plus - Silver Efex Pro 2 (a free program on the Net - thanks to a tip from Louis)

 

Keep on shooting,

 

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As above.

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My first input for this forum.

Leica T, 18-56 lens, jpg untouched.

Flowers from my garden, a lily.

 

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And a second one, an orchid, my favorite one.

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I have been experimenting with B&W for a few days.  Back in the 'Day I had a darkroom and worked in B&W quite a lot - but since digital came along I have not bothered with it much.  I always though it was kind of a waste to do gorgeous colorful flowers in B&W, but it does harken back to early 1800's photography - very nostalgic.  These are shot with the T and a 55 Micro Nikkor - processed in Lightroom,  plus - Silver Efex Pro 2 (a free program on the Net - thanks to a tip from Louis)

 

Keep on shooting,

 

Rick

 

As a film user, I always preferred B/W and when I moved to digital photography, I have always been trying to convert most of my shots to B/W.  There is something in digital colors  that most of the time, I do not like very much. Only in some Leica M shots I find colors sometimes  quite pleasing ! But I guess this is the "Modern" photography and we should train our eyes to enjoy it!....

 

I still prefer B/W more! ;)

 

T with different lenses. Shot in raw (color), converted to B/W with the old version of Silver Efex that I am still using.

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Louis, thanks for posting. I like the B&W.

And same with me: I hardly like the colour outcome of digital photography. Today, I got the Silver Efex since it's free.

Are there results you can't achieve with Lightroom? What is your workflow with Silver Efex?

Thanks

W

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Here is another flower photo:  T + 50 Cron-R

 

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Here is another flower photo:  T + 50 Cron-R


 

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Yesterday the Sun came out at last - working with the Voigtlander 50 f2.0 Heliar

 

Local food for dinner last evening - Fiddleheads and Littleneck clams.

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Colors come through OK with the Heliar.

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Louis, thanks for posting. I like the B&W.

And same with me: I hardly like the colour outcome of digital photography. Today, I got the Silver Efex since it's free.

Are there results you can't achieve with Lightroom? What is your workflow with Silver Efex?

Thanks

W

 

Hello W,

 

Thank you very much for your kind feedback.

 

I am not very good or knowledgeable with LR. I have been working with Photoshop since Photoshop 4, and the one I have now is C2, which is not new, either. Therefore, I feel much more comfortable with PS and never had the patience of learning LR well.

 

I always shoot in RAW, therefore color. My raw files are converted to tiff in LR because my PS being too “old” does not support the T raw files.

 

Then, my PP is mainly done in PS. I try to have the contrast, tonalities and DR that I like before going to Silver Efex that is also the old version, but still very decent. I believe that by working first with the color version, I can get better tonalities in monochrome.

 

Of course, then I am also tweaking the B/W in PS to get the effects I am looking for.

 

I hope I could answer your question; if not, feel free to let me know.

 

Kind regards,

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JPEG, SOOC, or DNG Dennis? The colours are certainly nice and vivid.

Gary

Gary,

Here is the in-camera jpeg

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Thank you Dennis, it mirrors my own experiences.

In my case it will be a setting somewhere.

My DNG files are more vivid than the Jpegs as well.

Normally use Jpegs when I select B&W.

Gary

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