Black and White

[tad2106]

I love B&W and have to resist turning all my shots monochrome!
Here's a few of my favs.

[muffytyrone]

Enjoy!


www.muffytyrone.com

[Erik Kuipers]

Hi there ,
I was just surfing around when I ended up here and decided to try to see if I can bring in some fresh wind. I’m in photography for about a year now and enjoying it very much. Well here some examples of what I did in the past and I would love to her all your remarks / comments.

[wulf]

Here is my contribution:



The original was my favourite picture from all that I took in 2006:



I used The Gimp. First I took two copies of the image, desaturated one with the built-in command (quick but quite flat) and desaturated the other using the channel mixer. I then merged the two together to get a balance I liked.

Next, I took a copy of the composite monochrome image, blurred it by 10px and set the new layer in overlay mode. Opacity was adjusteded to 40%, which increased the contrast without going over the top. That was all flattened and saved as greyscale to give my final result.

I still prefer the original image, as the colours were very complementary and helped pick out the blobs of lichen, but am also happy with this monochrome version.

Wulf

[jiminyClickit]

Erik Kuipers,

Welcome to our part of the ocean.

First photo: simple in the best possible way
Second: powerful in b/w
Third: undecided about the cut-off fence

For really thorough attention, try the "Critique my shot" threads.

[Mike]

My first post here...

I took this picture of Mary Arden's childhood home (William Shakespeare's mother) last year but converted it to black and white yesterday using Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1.

[jiminyClickit]

Subtle has its own voice

[NaturesPixel]

here is mine... shot in colour.. had previously made this mono... but i revamped it again

Sonny @ 4mths

[actionwoman]

nice place for lunch when it's sunny/warm...

[SteveRu]

This was taken a couple of years ago with a Pentax ME Super camera and some B&W film.