Black and white on 300D?

[timmyquest]

Is this something i'll have to do in photoshop or is there a setting in the camera, i pretty much read the manual front to back and didnt catch anything on the topic.

[defordphoto]

Photoshop. There are many different approaches. Just ripping out the color is one of them, but the rsults will be muddy. If you scroll back a bit here in this forum you'll find a few threads...

[timmyquest]

RFMSports wrote:
Photoshop. There are many different approaches. Just ripping out the color is one of them, but the rsults will be muddy. If you scroll back a bit here in this forum you'll find a few threads...


Thanks...i'll try a little harder later, i'm going to my girlfriends birthday party and just wanted to know ahead of time.

[Kinger]

I don't have tghe link, but there is a method developed by "Russel Brown" that is supposed to be the hands down best way of converting to black and white.

[ilya]

See this thread~

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=21466#123116 :)

and,

do this search on google: "black and white photoshop actions"

Ilya

[defordphoto]

Thanks Ilya. That's what I was looking for.

[defordphoto]

RFMSports wrote:
Thanks Ilya. That's what I was looking for.

Actually, this is the link that really tells the story:

http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/b-w_better.shtml

[ilya]

RFMSports wrote:
RFMSports wrote:
Thanks Ilya. That's what I was looking for.

Actually, this is the link that really tells the story:

http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/b-w_better.shtml

That's a good link.

I had several diff B&W actions which did a good job, one in particular gave 10 different variations of B&W-iteness. Unfortunately I lost that particular one upon an unfortunate partitioning mishap, and can't find them again and I don't recall where I got it. If anyone knows this 10 B&W action, and where I can download it, or has it and can send it to me, I'd be very very grateful.

[mpkirby]

The very same discussion is under way on dpreview right now as well..

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=7132216

Mike

[ilya]

mpkirby wrote:
The very same discussion is under way on dpreview right now as well..

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=7132216

Mike


Thanks Mike. I picked up Johny's B&W Package V2.0 from that thread, had V1.1 already. Its a great package ( http://www.jakerlund.net/page.php?id=6 ) ~ highly recommend it.

The one I had before though was a bit different - it gave 10 diff variations on intensity of channels - red, green and blue, with soft blur thrown in as a couple of options.