B&W Park Pics. C&C Welcome

[SloRon]

 

[FanBoy]

The subjects are good. The near steps are in focus but quickly get blurry further in to the first photo.

 

[invisible]

I like your processing of both images, particularly the first one – great work. The subjects are interesting (once again the first one gets the edge), however I think both scenes would be more compelling if you have the chance to explore approaching them from different, less obvious angles.

EDIT: Welcome to TPF, by the way.

 

[35mm4me]

Interesting lines, they do look alittle to digitized. For me black and white shouldlook alive and softer

 

[timor]

Interesting lines, they do look alittle to digitized. For me black and white shouldlook alive and softer

More like a film ?

 

[gsgary]

More like a film ?

Only way to do B+W is with film why shoot digital then try and make it look like film it's beyond me

 

[KenC]

Only way to do B+W is with film why shoot digital then try and make it look like film it's beyond me

One can shoot digital and make a B+W that looks any way one wants. If one doesn't want it to look like film, then it doesn't make sense to shoot film, and then film is not the "only way to do B+W." If you always like the B+W you get from film then you are doing exactly what you need to do, but why rule out B+W via digital for everyone?

 

[timor]

More like a film ?

Only way to do B+W is with film why shoot digital then try and make it look like film it's beyond me

Common Gary, people don't shoot film for a few reasons, first they don't have capabilities, physical or others to run a darkroom. Before they simply didn't do any photography and had to live with constant, unfulfilled desire. Well, technology came with help, creating computerized simulation of photography and made a darkroom redundant and we have a proliferation of photographers, many very good, what makes our life much more interesting. Ken is right, there is many ways to skin a bear, so if there is a mathematical model to simulate b&w film look, why not to use it as a substitute. After all most of the famous photographs I know only from ink prints in the book and I was still able to enjoy them.

 

[gsgary]

More like a film ?

Only way to do B+W is with film why shoot digital then try and make it look like film it's beyond me

Common Gary, people don't shoot film for a few reasons, first they don't have capabilities, physical or others to run a darkroom. Before they simply didn't do any photography and had to live with constant, unfulfilled desire. Well, technology came with help, creating computerized simulation of photography and made a darkroom redundant and we have a proliferation of photographers, many very good, what makes our life much more interesting. Ken is right, there is many ways to skin a bear, so if there is a mathematical model to simulate b&w film look, why not to use it as a substitute. After all most of the famous photographs I know only from ink prints in the book and I was still able to enjoy them.

I got invited round to a camera club friend (83 years old) that is into posterizing with film it takes him about a week to create one print but boy are they good very similar to Andy Warhol stuff

 

[timor]

What the process ? I did such a thing veeeery long time ago and it involved copying the negative multiple times.

 

[SloRon]

Color photo with a canon t3i worked in lightroom 4