Thread: Pictures ! Anything goes, it is the camera corner after all !!

Originally Posted by dullbird

Just had a little play with the pics that went in the comp, being as though we weren't allowed to edit in the last competition

You could have just set the camera to black & white! I think the second one is very effective.





There, I've wasted my 4000th post

Originally Posted by dm_td5

You could have just set the camera to black & white! I think the second one is very effective.





There, I've wasted my 4000th post

yes I know but at the time I didn't want to take them in black and white...these pics were adjusted which we couldn't of done If i had taken them straight from the camera in the comp...and they would of looked very washed out!

besides taking in black and white you dont have a choice.......take it in colour and convert then you do have a choice

Originally Posted by dullbird

besides taking in black and white you dont have a choice.......take it in colour and convert then you do have a choice

Not true. If you shoot in RAW format. All a B&W image is is a change to the colour space and white balance. Try it shoot an image in RAW and then open it in Photoshop and change it to colour. Of course if you shoot JEG its all locked in as B&W.

I should also add that whilst the camera's sensor records RGB photo sites this information is essentially a greyscale interpolation into the colour by the processor(s) in the camera.

Just another reason to shoot in RAW format.

either way it doesn't really matter though especially if either way you can change it to the other!
so what would be the benefit of me shooting it in black and white over colour and converting at a later date?

Originally Posted by dullbird

either way it doesn't really matter though especially if either way you can change it to the other!
so what would be the benefit of me shooting it in black and white over colour and converting at a later date?

Ummmmm.... none

Actually there real difference is in the ability to capture in B&W over colour. The tonality of the shot is usually different in B&W to colour. Thus if you can capture a great B&W shot off the camera then you have achieved something just as you can with any other good image captured straight off the camera.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Ummmmm.... none

Actually there real difference is in the ability to capture in B&W over colour.

The tonality of the shot is usually different in B&W to colour.

Thus if you can capture a great B&W shot off the camera then you have achieved something just as you can with any other good image captured straight off the camera.

mmmmmmm. I think the only way to get different tonal values when shooting B&W straight fron the camera is to use the filters that are also excessible within the camera
these pics were taking in black and white at cooma with a red filter on to give me a more dramatic sky....these how ever may of been taking in JPEG I really cant remember now but pretty sure they were

other than that I really feel there is no difference regardless of the way you do it

Playing with the camera's settings is the only other option as you say. If you want some good information have a look through some of the Flickr groups related to the D80.

I like the one of the two tents, shame you missed the bottom corner.

Yeah I hear what your saying about the tent but I had only owned my camera a couple of months I was very much still learning, well I still am.....but that was just experiementing on the day

I looked at flickr last night but you have to sign up to yahoo to get in...which I dont want to do! or at least thats what it looked like