Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Photoblog : Old South Church
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Bell Tower, Old South Church
Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts
For this photograph, I had a chance to try out Robb Carr’s much-talked-about-on-the-web B&W conversion technique in Adobe Photoshop. Robb Carr, considered one of the master retouchers in the industry, works for the reputed photographer Greg Gorman. Here’s the how-to described by Andrei Herasimchuk on his Design By Fire blog or if you prefer, a nice li’l Photoshop action.
No more Image » Grayscale or Channel Mixing when creating B&W photographs from digital color. Yay!
methinks it can be safely put in black and white now that you are quite amazing with that camera:) Of course, it’s also assumed that ‘Megha’ would always click well with the skies.
Keep it up. The camera too:)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 @ 5:44 AM
Nice! It’s Usually hard to get the right distribution of light in B & W but you managed to pull off a decent one using PhotoShop. Keep it up..
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 @ 6:33 PM
Hey Megha, How about posting a vanilla Greyscale version for contrast..
Thursday, October 14, 2004 @ 1:07 AM
Impressive picture. I always did like good B&W pictures. Everything seems so much more simpler and basic. A million shades of color may make a picture attractive and lively…but B&W conveys the message - without all that jazz.
Thursday, October 14, 2004 @ 1:20 AM
Nice Pic. And I agree with Manjusha here, B&W pics bring a certain charm, that color pictures just cannot bring with them. I guess, its the ‘unknown’ - the lack of colors, leaving you to imagine what they might be. Yet, for me, the most powerful pictures have always been B&W. And I hope to be clicking a few of my own, within the near future :)
Thursday, October 14, 2004 @ 11:29 AM
Nice pic re :) b&w is cool, also I was looking into turning my monitor(laptop) to b&w sometimes but not sure how to do !! any idea,anyone ? When u try to shutdown or log off from windows xp, the screen turns b&w. My wall paper looked awesome !!
Saturday, October 16, 2004 @ 10:41 AM
(This comment was originally posted on 10/18/2004 at 11:56:02 AM. It is being reposted to modify the image link.)
[oxy_moron] And methinks it is safe to state that you cannot have a peaceful night of sleep without at least one punny attempt. Wot say? :)
[Paddy] Thanks! This conversion technique does give you plenty of opportunity to play around with the light/shadow balances.
[Deepak] Here is the plain greyscale version of the same image. This picture is not the best example to demonstrate this technique, but if you were to check out the Design By Fire link I mention in the main blog, Andrei has used a better example to illustrate the difference. Hope this helps..
[manjusha] Thank you! I couldn’t agree more with your comment about B&W photography. I love the medium .. also think its infinitely tougher than color photography. To achieve a richness of color without actually using color isn’t easy ..
[Hifzur] Thanks! I agree.. B&W pictures tend to have a rawness, an edge.. that color pictures sometimes lack. Looking forward to seeing some of your handiwork on your blog in the near future!
[pingoo] Thank you! I have no idea how to change one’s monitor to B&W.. Perhaps someone else can shed some light on this?
Monday, January 31, 2005 @ 3:17 PM
now THAT is one heck of a cool pic- the straight lines of the man-made form contrasting nicely with the dispersed forms of the leaves!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 @ 3:30 AM