Here's some B&W photo's of My layout taken today. I have never used the B&W setting before now on my Sony DSC-H1 digital camera. So I was fooling around and took these shot's, and thought some of You would like to see them..
Looks good.
I love B&W...although I normally shoot in color, and then convert to B&W using software. I find the camera's B&W setting kinda flat, and like the more dynamic look I can get with the software. Of course I also remember shooting and developing Kodak T-Max and using colored filters to do the same thing.
Nick
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Nice. A reminder of the '40's and 50's MR's that a friend gave me, that are hidden away somewhere.
Hope tyhe loco in the first pic is idling or else you have a daredevil driver in one of your autos.
Thanks for sharing,
nice photos I love b & w and I think people should consider shooting this way more often, especially the older era layouts when b & w would have been prominent
Those are really cool photos.
My lament these days with Black & White -- and this has nothing to do with you or your photos -- is that they are never "Black" or "White" anymore. They are just dull and mushy. It is a side-effect of shooting with color "film" (digital camera) and then converting to "Black & White". However, if you shoot with *real* Black & White film, such as Kodak's venerable old Pan-X or Tri-X (which may not be in production any longer, I'm not sure), you can get some real richness in tone and a full tonal range. You'll have "Black" blacks and "White" whites and a whole host of beautiful gray tones in-between. Instead of the "mush" produced by converting from color to "black & white".
John