Just to drive you all mad, until I posted some old black and white photos today, I had never thought whether it was possible to take them with digital cameras.
I have just had a look and it seems some digital cameras have black and white mode. Does anyone know anything about this, have you taken black and white with a digital?
Digital Black and White in Photoshop
You can do this with a lot of digital cameras by adjusting the mode before taking the picture but my experience is that it's better to use Phtoshop on a colour image as the camera produces a kind of "shaded" result that doesn't, to my eye, have quite the quality of a traditional film image. IMHO nothing beats film for black and white but others will no doubt prove me wrong with some lovely digital stuff!
Anyway, as I said before on another thread, try it, digital is FREE to experiment with!
Thanks for all the information, I since saw your ropemaker was in black and white Cassis. So you can just take the colour off, very interesting, as some photos are far nicer in black and white. There is so much to learn, it's fascinating.
Digital Photo magazine - still in the shops, I think (it was our Tesco yesterday) is largely devoted to B&W this month. You might find someone who can send you a copy.
If you have Photoshop or Elements there are tutorials on the supplied CD disk.
cooperlola wrote:Portraits are especially effective, I think.
This photo was found amongst my mother in laws bits and pieces when we sadly attended her funeral in November this year. She was 94. I just think it's a wonderful photo of good times past. It was quite badly damaged and required a fair bit of touch-up work.
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