B&W Help please

I would just try and retake the photo.

The RAW file won't open, keeps giving me the same error messages. I had the thought that maybe my programs were boggled, but they open my RAW files perfectly. I think maybe that particular file is goofed, either on your end or on my end.

In any regard, it's super easy to do B&W, it just depends on what you want the end result to look like. There are tons of plug-ins and presets for Photoshop and Lightroom that will make it as easy as choosing a look and applying it. Pickupman is correct though, a re-shoot would help if you chose a different background. Just don't choose one that;s too busy. Take them out to the park and shoot against a tree or something like that.

troymm...awesome edit. Uglytuna (terrible name) there are probably some good tuturials on here to help you convert your pictures yourself. I'm still learning myself. Though I do have a couple of books that have been helping me quite a bit. Good luck..

Nothing is wrong with the CR2 file; most likely you're running outdated versions of Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW which don't have support for images shot with a Canon 5D Mark II.

katodog wrote in post #9154457
Nope. Lightroom says "unsupported or damaged" and CS3 says "could not complete request because of a program error".


Never came across this before, so maybe you didn't get it uploaded correctly, or it's a damaged file. I don't know. PM coming your way...

troymm wrote in post #9155400
here's a quick bw edit

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Very very nicely done Troy......

That could actually be very true, so now I'm updating my software. Thanks for the info.

Well, that worked, updated Lightroom and now I can see the image.

Flo wrote in post #9157473
Very very nicely done Troy......

SJC from VT wrote in post #9157291
troymm...awesome edit.

Thanks.

quick fix with a lazy replacement of sky.

Raw works fine in CS4.

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I took a quick shot at converting the RAW file:

uglytuna wrote in post #9153162
Hi i was wondering if someone could help me out I would like to enlarge this and convert this photo to black and white I don't have much experience with B&W any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I like Troys B&W conversion the best, and adding a sunset in to the color is a sweet addition.

adding the sunset in the background and the light hitting her and the dog from the right side... it's pretty obvious it's fake.

pickupman92 wrote in post #9159504
adding the sunset in the background and the light hitting her and the dog from the right side... it's pretty obvious it's fake.

He did mention it was a quick edit.

I just want to thank everyone for the great help and my girl friend and oliver will enjoy this for christmas. Thank you again.

Dale

PixelMagic your edits are all amazing. It's so nice that so many of you are willing to take the time to help out the POTN community. Round of applause to all of you.