B&W thread NO silver efexs

Shot during a wedding.

This thread got no updates for 4 months.....because people can't process BW photos without some plugin software...hehehehe...


Processed through your standard CS6

From today....

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TooManyShots wrote in post #17747119
This thread got no updates for 4 months.....because people can't process BW photos without some plugin software...hehehehe...

Processed through your standard CS6

people are just using their best tool for the job. you wouldn't use a plasma cutter to slice your steak right?

Xyclopx wrote in post #17762279
people are just using their best tool for the job. you wouldn't use a plasma cutter to slice your steak right?

Actually, it is very easy to convert photos to BW using your standard photo editor...just knowing which color sliders would produce your desired filter effects. Specialized software isn't needed if you know what you are doing. The analogy would be like why using a plasma cutter to slice a steak when you can use your ordinary dinning knife?

TooManyShots wrote in post #17763509
Actually, it is very easy to convert photos to BW using your standard photo editor...just knowing which color sliders would produce your desired filter effects. Specialized software isn't needed if you know what you are doing. The analogy would be like why using a plasma cutter to slice a steak when you can use your ordinary dinning knife?

um.... that IS my analogy.

Plasma cutter == Silver Efexs. Dinning knife == your BW color sliders in photoshop.

TooManyShots wrote in post #17763743
Plasma cutter == Silver Efexs. Dinning knife == your BW color sliders in photoshop.

well,.... i meant plasma cutter = photoshop, you know, the software that used to cost $700-1000 a copy, and dining knife meaning LR or Silver Efx, the tools explicitly not allowed in this thread. at least for me, i only use photoshop when i need to do something fairly complicated, as in 5-50hrs of work for a single piece. lr and silver efx are mostly just about tweaking sliders for me.

i was referring to the post right above my analogy, and to the op's first post where they both stated that they prefer photoshop, and i would assume also meant that those photos posted were edited with photoshop.

............. though, i was half kidding hence the smiley face. both posted nice pictures, and i couldn't care less how they were made. we all know there are plenty of impressive pictures made using all kinds of different software, and as long as the results are excellent then what they use doesn't reflect on the vision of the photographer as far as i am concerned.

Surgical scalpel Leica M Monochrom

airfrogusmc wrote in post #17764998
Surgical scalpel Leica M Monochrom

I like the number 2 and number 5.

Here is my kitchen knife. Nikon n90s. Ilford fp4+ 125. HC110. From last week.

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Some old 4X5 stuff. T-Max 400 ordinal 1:50

airfrogusmc wrote in post #17765617
Some old 4X5 stuff. T-Max 400 ordinal 1:50

All good, as always, but really liking #2.