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The Official TB Photography thread, second frame

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Kwesi said:
Here's a self-portrait I took yesterday, while experimenting a bit with B&W. I like how it turned out.

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I like it. Nice lighting except maybe just a taaad too black under the chin IMO. Nice sharp pic though. Be careful about backgrounds - in this case the vent that crosses right through your head. Also, the line of where wall meets ceiling goes right through your head as well. I don't know...I'm undecided about that though...kind of adds some interest with the two tones but background interest distracts from foreground subject.

And then out of the other side of my mouth I say, "Rules are made to be broken." :)

bc
 
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My snapshot of the day. I literally put my kids in the car and was standing in the door of the driver's side and took 30 seconds to snap this. Not my most interesting pic of the day but I can't post pictures of my students from school or my kids in the bathtub. :)

The sky was absolutely brilliant and it was a gorgeous day. I was wanting to stop and take pics all the way home but I had the kids.


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DigMe said:
I like it. Nice lighting except maybe just a taaad too black under the chin IMO. Nice sharp pic though. Be careful about backgrounds - in this case the vent that crosses right through your head. Also, the line of where wall meets ceiling goes right through your head as well. I don't know...I'm undecided about that though...kind of adds some interest with the two tones but background interest distracts from foreground subject.

And then out of the other side of my mouth I say, "Rules are made to be broken." :)

bc
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I was thinking the same the about the neck-shadow! It makes me look like I have less of one than I do, lol. I thought about boosting the exposure a bit in Lightroom (huzzah for student discounts, lol) but decided against it for some reason, I'll try ti later. The vent was unfortunate but all of our mirrors are in bathrooms and the vents in each are perfectly positioned to photo-bomb self portraits :p. The two-tone background I thought was interesting too. I like it but I definitely see where your coming from in saying that it can be a bit distracting.

A few questions for you guys: In photography class today our teacher basically said that it's much better to take a picture in color and then convert it to B&W in post because you'll have more options as to what you might want to do to it. It sounds like it makes sense to me but I haven't tried it myself. Thoughts?
 
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I definitely prefer converting to b&w in LR rather than setting it to b&w in-camera. You do have more options. Especially if you shoot in RAW (and there's really no reason not to since you're post-processing in LR). Take a pic and convert it to b&w and then play with the yellow levels, blues etc.. You'll see what it can do.

I get the same discount on LR as a teacher. Educational discounts are awesome. :bassist:

bc
 
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Kwesi said:
A few questions for you guys: In photography class today our teacher basically said that it's much better to take a picture in color and then convert it to B&W in post because you'll have more options as to what you might want to do to it. It sounds like it makes sense to me but I haven't tried it myself. Thoughts?
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That is a given, Kwesi :)

Having a picture in colour gives you every opportunity to play with the colour, hue, saturation etc. as you deem fit. B/W is just ONE of the possibilities that can come out of it.

Starting with a B/W image, you're limited to lightness, contrast etc. some hue...and never will you EVER have the oppurtunity to have it with proper colour as the scene had it.

What do YOU think?

Like...if you were given the choice to shoot RAW over Jpeg, and you choose Jpeg.....why?
It limits you.
 
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Kwesi said:
Here's a self-portrait I took yesterday, while experimenting a bit with B&W. I like how it turned out.

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I hope you don't mind my taking your pic and spending about 15 seconds with it in PS using the Shadow/Highlight tool to extend the tonal range a little:

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It probably could be tweaked further, but I did this to show how even a fast reprocess can change things! (And I'd leave the neck alone, it's appropriate to the image.)
 
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HeavyDuty said:
I hope you don't mind my taking your pic and spending about 15 seconds with it in PS using the Shadow/Highlight tool to extend the tonal range a little:

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It probably could be tweaked further, but I did this to show how even a fast reprocess can change things! (And I'd leave the neck alone, it's appropriate to the image.)
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Haha, almost looks like a halo should be somewhere over my head :D. Very appropriate seeing how angelic I am :p. I'll definitely start poking around Lightroom a little more. I dunno, I just prefer not to post-process though I'm hoping to change that soon. I feel like I should be happy with the shots straight from the camera.
 
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Kwesi said:
Haha, almost looks like a halo should be somewhere over my head :D. Very appropriate seeing how angelic I am :p. I'll definitely start poking around Lightroom a little more. I dunno, I just prefer not to post-process though I'm hoping to change that soon. I feel like I should be happy with the shots straight from the camera.
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Straight printing may have been common enough with film, but I've found that digital requires at least moderate postprocessing. In-camera JPEG engines are too basic to make the kind of decisions needed, and RAW is, well - raw.

Seriously, this took less than 30 seconds to do and could have been handled as a batch process on multiple similar pics at once.
 
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