Black and White

[cramiuya]

[Aaron.French]

Originally Posted by cramiuya

I love the composition. gj.

[klly76]

first post

[jiminyClickit]

klly76, welcome,

Let's have another! (Curious, why the crop there?)

[DougOLis]

Took this at the memorial in Ireland to those who died on the death ships during the potato famine. Screwed up and got rain on the lens, but it created a kind of cool effect adding to the eeriness.

[KRIS]

Originally Posted by Kusk

Exposure: 1/400 sec / Aperture: f 4 / Focal length: 200 mm / Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark II / ISO: 100
First dps upload, was it worth it?

Hi,
Very graphic but a little more light on the man would have made this pic more dynamic. Did you by any way try to increase contrast thru photoshop?
But any way I love the atmosphere and gloom surrounding the figure.
Kris

[tad2106]

Great photos on here as usual.

Fauzi - I love the grain on your photos.

[bkhl]

Here I used a procedure in The GIMP that I like in particular for close-ups. I convert to black and white as seems best (decomposing into RGB and mixing on top of a dark grey background, in this case), then posterize to 64 colors (which tends to be about right, but can of course be varied), and then do a gaussian blur, with a radius that smoothes out the worst of the graininess.



Here's a portrait taken indoors with no flash, which by a stroke of luck, I have to say, turned out with the face less blurred than the background (out of focus) and the foreground (movement). In this case I turned it into black and white by simply desaturating, and then did a less overt version of the procedure described above.

[duckunix]

Candle, color, converted by hand in gimp to B&W:

From Test

Next:
Tiki lamp, shot color, de-saturated, then inverted.

From Test

[jlrh]

Here is mine (and my first post too).