Post your DR-XT and 20D B&W (camera setting) Photos!

How about a thread with pictures shot using the new DIGIC II processor's b&w mode. There was a thread elsewhere about it but it is apparently now a discussion about how much better you can do shooting in RAW and Photoshopping (which I'm sure is correct). That's a worthy discussion to have, to be sure, but it's not what I'm interested in here, so since there is the other thread going already, let's leave that discussion there.

I'd love to see what folks have done with the in-camera b&w setting. Play around with it, post your pics and maybe some comments about the shot. I'm interested in b&w and I'm curious about this feature of the newer Canons and I'm sure others are, too.

Here's one I did with the DR-XT with the built-in flash, using Program AE, 1/60 @ f/2.8 with the EF 35mm lens, white balance set to tungsten. I wasn't thinking about the WB setting, it was set for some available light stuff I was doing just prior to this. Looks kind of blue-and-white to me.

Anyone else done any more serious work with the b&w mode?

John

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Here's one of the same image, which was shot in b&w in the XT, after I put it through some DPP work. Mind you I have no idea what I'm doing, or not much, anyway.

Desaturated to zero, brightness = 4, contrast =2, sharpness =200. On my monitor it looks more black and white than blue and white now. Don't know how it looks here.

John

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looks blue to me.

BLUE

Blue here also

Both are blue and both are look exactly the same to me. Your WB setting should have been either AWB or flash. As said many times on here - it's always best to shoot in color because if you use a B&W in-camera mode you'll never have the color shot to play with.

My first B&W shot using 20D's parameter setting. Shot indoors with 24-70L, 70mm focal length, 1/80 sec., f/3.2, iso 200, no PP. I don't know how to evaluate B&W photos, so I'd be curious to know what you think about the 20D's B&W parameter job.

One of my first pics with my new RXT. Sepia with red filter. Forgive my Newbieness

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And another B&W, photoshopped for size only. (no Sepia). Didn't get the subject centered right. (I have just recently taken up photography).

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Hey, Sys, that's an awfully nice shot, IMO! Ithink the DR-XT settings are the same as the 20D, they use the same processor. I think my WB was goofed up which made it look blue. I also may not have saved my changes in DPP correctly, I am a complete noob at this. They might be the same darn file posted twice.

If I could consistently get results like that shot of your boy out of the camera, I'd be pretty happy indeed! Thanks for posting.

Dogsdad, that's the weirdest thing I've seen. Usually sepia goes all through the image. In that one, it almost looks like the ground and buildings are sepia toned, but the sky is not. Anybody else see it that way?

John

The sun was sitting in the whitest area of the sky. The rest of the sky was blue, except for the few jet trails. The red filter usually turns the sky quite dark, but you're right, very little sepia tone to the sky.