General Photography thread

[clippedgull]

Seagull Sunset taken from my balcony here in Brighton

 

[shingle]

I love Black and White......here's 3 shots taken earlier.

 

[D Block blue]

Love this thread, there are some really great pictures on here. Caught this moody sunset out the window

 

[Smirko]

Nice Silohuette. Appropiate for here!

 

[Mowgli37]

Taken somewhere over the Atlantic on the way to Iceland

 

[Smirko]

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I love Black and White......here's 3 shots taken earlier.

Very Nice esp 1st one.

 

[brightn'ove]

Nice Shot

Thank you, just scanning through your shots in this thread some cracking images

 

[brightn'ove]

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I love Black and White......here's 3 shots taken earlier.

 

[Mowgli37]

Looking westwards in Horsham

 

[El Presidente]

Forgive my ignorance, as new to DSLR but have a Canon 7D as a present from ex-wife, so have bought a 50mm f1.4 and 16-35mm f2.8 II.

In terms of taking black and white pictures, is all the hard work done in Photoshop, and you just take a picture as normal? (Awaits the proper photographers to fall about laughing).

 

[clippedgull]

Forgive my ignorance, as new to DSLR but have a Canon 7D as a present from ex-wife, so have bought a 50mm f1.4 and 16-35mm f2.8 II.

In terms of taking black and white pictures, is all the hard work done in Photoshop, and you just take a picture as normal? (Awaits the proper photographers to fall about laughing).

There should be a setting in your FANTASTIC! camera to shoot in Black & White. But if not, yes you can 'lose' the colours in Photoshop.

 

[seagull_special]

 

[seagull_special]

Great work!

 

[brightn'ove]

Forgive my ignorance, as new to DSLR but have a Canon 7D as a present from ex-wife, so have bought a 50mm f1.4 and 16-35mm f2.8 II.

In terms of taking black and white pictures, is all the hard work done in Photoshop, and you just take a picture as normal? (Awaits the proper photographers to fall about laughing).

If you shoot in RAW (which i think anybody on here will also tell you to do), set your camera to monochrome and it will show you the picture on the screen in black and white, however it preserves all of the colour data in case you want to change your mind when you bring it into photoshop or lightroom (or any other number of free softwares which can convert RAW files).

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Just some summer randoms

 

[brightn'ove]

Just some summer randoms

lovely! i especially like the shot of the cows on the rolling hills.

 

[brightn'ove]

a couple more black and whites, the shot of the downs was actually taken on my iphone as i forgot to take my DSLR up there

 

[shingle]

Forgive my ignorance, as new to DSLR but have a Canon 7D as a present from ex-wife, so have bought a 50mm f1.4 and 16-35mm f2.8 II.

In terms of taking black and white pictures, is all the hard work done in Photoshop, and you just take a picture as normal? (Awaits the proper photographers to fall about laughing).

It's not hard work Pres......in Lightroom, which I would advise getting as it's brilliant for editing and cataloging and cheap as chips, you just move the saturation slider.....in photoshop go to window-adjustments-gradient map.....easy, just click on the gradient map icon and it does it for you then just tweak in curves for final pic
you will need to flatten the image though after clicking on the gradient map

 

[El Presidente]

There should be a setting in your FANTASTIC! camera to shoot in Black & White. But if not, yes you can 'lose' the colours in Photoshop.

Thanks for the tip, working my way through some guidebooks on honeymoon.

I do like the camera, my ex has just upgraded to a 1DX, so I have agreed to just buy EF lenses for the 7D in case she wants to borrow them.

Ees complicated!

 

[El Presidente]

It's not hard work Pres......in Lightroom, which I would advise getting as it's brilliant for editing and cataloging and cheap as chips, you just move the saturation slider.....in photoshop go to window-adjustments-gradient map.....easy, just click on the gradient map icon and it does it for you then just tweak in curves for final pic
you will need to flatten the image though after clicking on the gradient map

Thanks, I have an iMac at home, so do I need CS6 AND Lightroom for playing with the photos? As a 'student' I can get them at discounted prices so happy to acquire whatever software necessary. Things currently open in iPhoto, and Apple seem keen for me to buy Aperture, but I am not so sure.