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RE: DAY TWO : SEVEN DAYS OF BLACK & WHITE - A Challenge!
I use a free online editor to turn them Black and White, which can be as simple as adjusting the saturation.
befunky.com/features/photo-editor/
That is the one that I use, and it works really well for me. Good question!
Thank you! I am wary of filters because I want the original photo too!
Be funky Papa! Will give it a go ;)
Yup, just a saturation adjustment can keep the photo "original."
See my comment to @ecoinstant. LOL!
Just reducing saturation is not the best way to do black and white photography. I happen to be just preparing a post about that. The only original photograph in digital is taken with a camera that is capable of photographing in Camera Raw! LOL! When you have a jpeg image, the camera has thrown away pixels randomly. With Camera Raw, the photographer has control over which pixels to keep and which to throw away - just like in REAL darkroom processing. Same goes for the Saturation slider. In the real B&W darkroom, the photographer decides where the lightest and darkest areas should be- not a saturation slider. LOL! Filters are actually better than the saturation slider at getting true black and white representations! Good filters allow the photographer to make the decisions!
Fantastic - make the post because you are the expert!
We learn from you Diane!
Working on it! I need to do some more research to help people like you who are not using Adobe Photoshop and Camera Raw! In the meantime, don't feel like you are cheating when you use a filter program of some sort. You have much more control with a filter (normally) than with a saturation slider. The better ones allow you to make adjustments where YOU want them. don't be afraid to experiment! There is a misconception that black and white photographs were simply captured on film and printed. The results depended on many, many different factors, which I will cover n my post!
I use to work in a Flexo Stripping department and every once and a while we would do hand developing of negatives. I learned from the old union men I worked with.
It's amazing how you can change a negative by hand developing them. But also good to know when the machine developer broke on a rush job that was due yesterday lolll
That sounds like fun. Lol! The machines change negatives too. It all depends on what the machines are set to do. And how a negative looks in the first place depends on how it is processed! Many factors control that too. So, even a negative is not exactly what a camera captures. It all depends on the chemicals, temperature etc. Lol! Just talking about this brings back the smell of all those chemicals. I loved working in the darkroom. I had my own one at home for years! Now I use the digital darkroom. 😂😂
we had a darkroom with 4 exposure units for adding line screens in 4 color process jobs.
I had the Magic slate account ( where you draw with a plastic pencil and then pick up the flap and it's gone) I had to hand cut rubylith for all of those and then add the screens in for the other colors as they only used CMYK to print.
The best part was walking in and scaring the Pooo out of people :D
Sounds like a fun job! :-)
Wow!
We live and learn right? I'm learning about selfies. LOL! :-) :-)