B&W Old School Photography

[ash]

Im setting myself a challenge for the next week starting tommorow, it would be nice if you all joined in but I wont be offended if you dont.

I love b&w and and grainyness and ruffness of old style photography, so Im going to fit my 50mm lens on my d200, set it to b&w only and crank up the iso, and see what happens

The idea is to upload an untouched straight from the camera shot a day for the next week.

Think of it as modern tech entwinned with old style.

If anybody has any other idea's to add to the challenge that would be great, also I think most compacts have a b&w mode so theres no excuses

cheers
Ash

[pewidane]

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From my home today.Panasonic DMC FZ 28.1600 asa .Black and white.

There are some quality here in the shadows (lack of sharpness).( like a pinhole camera)

[Autumn]

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Good challenge Ash.

Pedar. I just love to see inside your home. Even in black and white your decor is so to my taste. I have always liked Scandinavian furniture with the clean clear lines and the ubiquitous candles.

Really good Starter for this challenge.

[ash]

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I agree, I really like the first shot pedar, you have beaten me to start my own challenge, well done and Im glad somebody else is joining in,
Im just about to load pics onto pc and resize, then ill pop a couple on here.
Ash.

[ash]

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First one reminds me of watching snooker on telly as a kid on the old b&w tv, why did we bother, I used to think that the ref missed half of the foul's
'he's hit the wrong colour, no he hasn't, oh yes he has, dohhhhh whats happening!

[ash]

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Thomas practicing his words.

These are both iso 1600, everything set to normal or off and straight from the camera, resized to post. I could get used to this, no faffing in photoshop

Im out and about tommorow so hopefully get some outdoor landscapy type shots.

[pewidane]

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This picture was made in color,printed in color,scanned and made in mono to get it more dramatic and dirty.

[Stephen]

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Mmmm, I'm glad you have shown a B/W conversion Peder, as I questioned having to do it in camera. Was there a reason for this Ash? I've shot about 1000 shots over the last 3 days, and the majority were at iso 1600, but they were all in colour so I felt as though that eliminated me

[Bob Ross]

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Hi Ash,
This is a marvelous idea. B&W out of the camera is one of my own perversions. I think in camera B&W is an art, one without the PP safety net. I think the limitations that you have imposed are also going to be educational for those, like me, who are PP compusive. This is like the old days when you had one chance to get it right or close enough to right to fix it in the dark room. It certainly teach you about metering and your camera's meter system.
The ones that I offer here are done with an E-3, ZD50, mono/orange filter, Sharpening +1, contrast +1, resized and sharened to offset downsizing softness.
Bob

[ash]

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Nice one pedar, very ruff n ready which suits the content spot on, although vearing away from the initial brief Im still glad you shared the shot for us all to see.

[ash]

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By all means Stephen share some shots, rules are there to be broken I suppose
The strict rules I set myself I am going to stick to but Ide love to see anybody's b&w conversions just see if you can explain what tweeks you have done, or if anybody wants to join in at any time using the rules I set myself thats also fine, even if you just post 1 pic all week, it does'nt matter, have some fun

[ash]

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Thanks for joining in Bob, and I love your fire hydrant, bet it would not have looked as good in colour

[ash]

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Ok second day, and from the look of this morning (very dull)I did'nt have a clue what I was going to shoot today, but I dropped lucky while I was working in Ponty, the races were on, so I just parked up and went for a wonder, in my dinner break of coarse
Never been to the races before, or even watched or anything so I was pretty chuffed to get the oportunity of some shots.

same again d200, 50mm lens, manual exposure, b&w in camera & no photoshoppin only resizing to post.

[ash]

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Think its airborne this beauty!

[Autumn]

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Here's my take on an in camera jobbie. Sorry it's not black and white, but it was taken last year. Just as I was trying out my sepia mode this bloke decided to do his daily dozen.

Anyway, still got my pot on my leg for another 5 weeks so it's not too easy to get out to take pics.