No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you will never get the quality of true black and white film from a digital camera. There are a lot of tricks and tweaks you can try in Photoshop, but wouldn't it just be easier to shoot film? This procedure is probably the quickest one I've found recently to convert color digital images to black and white. You could just desaturate it, or set your camera to "B&W", but what you generally end up with is a washed out, low contrast image. When taking photography classes, we shot Kodak TMAX 100 exclusively. We developed our own film and printed our own images in the darkroom. The shots I took in those classes are some of the most beautiful photographs I've ever taken. I'm really looking forward to shooting film again this summer.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Digital Black and White
No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you will never get the quality of true black and white film from a digital camera. There are a lot of tricks and tweaks you can try in Photoshop, but wouldn't it just be easier to shoot film? This procedure is probably the quickest one I've found recently to convert color digital images to black and white. You could just desaturate it, or set your camera to "B&W", but what you generally end up with is a washed out, low contrast image. When taking photography classes, we shot Kodak TMAX 100 exclusively. We developed our own film and printed our own images in the darkroom. The shots I took in those classes are some of the most beautiful photographs I've ever taken. I'm really looking forward to shooting film again this summer.
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