Your Approach to Black & White
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:15 pm
Since I have switched from film to digital I have to rethink my approach to black and white (I prefer b&w). I just learned about HDR and am wondering if and how people on this site use it for b&w. The main question is do you shoot different if you know you are going to turn it into a b&w image or do you shoot the same as color and then work on it in the computer.
Things like darkening the sky or lightening foliage like in the good old days is why I ask. Do you do this kind of thing in the camera or computer. Using a polerizing filter comes to mind.
The software I am going to use is Paint Shop Pro X2. I like the "b&w filters" part of it, the "infrared" effect and the "Time Machine" effect (you can give your image a really old look here). It also does HDR.
Here is an example. Say you are shooting a scene that has big puffy clouds and bright blue sky, do you shoot one way for color and another so you can darken the sky and bring out the detail in the clouds?
Thanks for all your help.
Things like darkening the sky or lightening foliage like in the good old days is why I ask. Do you do this kind of thing in the camera or computer. Using a polerizing filter comes to mind.
The software I am going to use is Paint Shop Pro X2. I like the "b&w filters" part of it, the "infrared" effect and the "Time Machine" effect (you can give your image a really old look here). It also does HDR.
Here is an example. Say you are shooting a scene that has big puffy clouds and bright blue sky, do you shoot one way for color and another so you can darken the sky and bring out the detail in the clouds?
Thanks for all your help.