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Question about making Black and White photos with out Photoshop


13 years 3 months ago #9954 by Patty Ganahl
I've seen many of you here who have such beautiful B&W photos. I thought I read that all that is needed is a red and blue filters to screw onto my camera's lens. Is that correct? Or will further processing still be needed in Photoshop? What filters do you recommend?

I'm really impressed and want to start making my own B&W photos!

Thanks!

Patty
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13 years 3 months ago #9960 by Todd Frederick
First...what camera are you using? I assume it's digital. Many digital cameras have a monochrome option in the menu settings. Using that will give you a b/w image but not always quite as good as when adjusted in Photoshop or a similar post processing program. I have not heard of the filter technique, but using such filters will block considerable light and reduce your ISO to an unusable level, IMO.
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13 years 3 months ago #9971 by Scotty

Todd Frederick wrote: First...what camera are you using? I assume it's digital. Many digital cameras have a monochrome option in the menu settings. Using that will give you a b/w image but not always quite as good as when adjusted in Photoshop or a similar post processing program. I have not heard of the filter technique, but using such filters will block considerable light and reduce your ISO to an unusable level, IMO.


Colored filters are really easy to use for black and white images, and won't reduce your ISO to an unusable level. I use colored filters because it's more of a challenge to get it right in the camera.

If you use photoshop, all you have to do is add a Black and White adjustment layer. Adjust color sliders until you get the results you want.

I'd make a levels layer after that, and raise the blacks up a tad to make it look richer.
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13 years 3 months ago #10029 by Photo Junky
So the setting in the camera, is that post processing? Or is the camera taking the photo in B&W?
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13 years 3 months ago #10174 by Moe

Photo Junky wrote: So the setting in the camera, is that post processing? Or is the camera taking the photo in B&W?


Although I have not played with this feature myself, I'm pretty sure you do this after the fact in the cameras menu.
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13 years 3 months ago #10176 by Yasko
I used to use yellow, orange and red filters a lot for BW landscapes when I shot film. You could use these filters with a digital too I suppose, but in all honesty you could spend around the same amount of money for Photoshop elements, which once learned, would get you so much more control of your BW images than filters ever would.

The only filter I'd get these days for BW related stuff is an infrared filter, as converting images to BW infrared in software usually degrades the quality too much.
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