A Day off with a camera

[Basil]

Due to being out of town a lot lately, I took Friday off and headed down to Old Town with my camera. Here are a few pics in Black and White.

(Note, click the little "Play Button" in the upper right to play a full screen slide show)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishcarforum/sets/72157656339490781/with/19812347688/

 

[GregW]

Nice, did you shoot B&W in camera or convert on the computer?

 

[Basil]

Nice, did you shoot B&W in camera or convert on the computer?

I never shoot B&W in camera - loose too muck information. It's PP with Lightroom.

 

[GregW]

I ask because I know people who set it in camera. I like to use the Black&White feature in Photoshop. There are sliders to boost or cut all the different color channels. It gives you a lot of control to really change the look and feel.

 

[Basil]

I ask because I know people who set it in camera. I like to use the Black&White feature in Photoshop. There are sliders to boost or cut all the different color channels. It gives you a lot of control to really change the look and feel.

The reason I do it in post processing is mainly based on something I learned in Mark Andrews' Advanced photography video I bought. He suggested not shooting B&W in camera as you loose data that can not then be recovered in post. Shooting raw in color gives you much more information to play with. Can I prove this? No, but it sounded plausible to me.