Share Your Top 3 Monochrome Shots - Inspire Me!

[Delgalar]

Originally Posted by junglebear

Great idea Gingerpixie and some great shots by everyone in this thread I'm toying with the idea of a 52 weeks of black and white next year so I'm really interested by B&W at the moment.

That is a great idea! Maybe I'll try that.

[ChanceinGA]

Here are a couple from the road I live on.

This is one of the first photo's I took when I got my DSLR cam, earlier this year.



This is the same lake a few months ago. Opposite side of the dam.




This one was taken in an old country town near where I live.

[bad_manners]

I've recently set my camera to do a B&W and simultaneously take a full colour shot. I'm loving some of the B&W that's coming out.

From B&W

Gruntlets at the Royal Easter Show 2010

From B&W

My little old dog, Jessie.

From B&W

Best of a bad lot at Lily Allen's Sydney Concert 2010

[Degilbo]

A good idea and one strangely enough I have undertaken myself, too. Recently I ran a film through my Rolleicord Va, something I haven't done in probably 30 - 40 years. Paid a visit to the Ron Mueck Exhibition at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art and captured some of his amazing exhibits:





I have some older B&W from years gone by which I will add later.

[PB-Blackbird]

two old ones (from 1971) - true b&w pics, negative scanned (sorry, no EXIF data )



and



and a new one




be well
Bernhard

[Ginger Pixie]

Some great shots here! Fab.

Just out of interest - do you convert your images to black and white in RAW, or do you use photoshop?

I have always done it in RAW, but recently discovered all the extra filters in photoshop.

All black and white conversion tips, tricks or tutorials appreciated!

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by Ginger Pixie

Some great shots here! Fab.

Just out of interest - do you convert your images to black and white in RAW, or do you use photoshop?

I have always done it in RAW, but recently discovered all the extra filters in photoshop.

All black and white conversion tips, tricks or tutorials appreciated!

I do mine in GIMP. I decompose to RGB, and tweak the channels to my liking.

[junglebear]

No RAW capability for me so I use the black and white layer tool in Photoshop.

[Mr Jon]

These three were all taken in Vietnam over the last year. Vietnam's a very colourful place, but I like to take black and white shots, particularly of people.

I ran into this guy in the Gia Lam district of Hanoi:



This was taken on a very grey and overcast day in April - perfect weather for b&w shots:



I took this last summer near Sapa in the north of Vietnam, where many of the county's ethnic minorities live:





Some great shots in this thread - keep 'em coming.

[senzhi]

My share: