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Urbanna, Virginia Harbor (click to enlarge)
X-T1, 18-55mm lens @ 44.4mm; 1/680th sec. @ f/8; ISO 200; converter in Silver Efex Pro 2
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I continue to like the black and white capabilities of the X-T1 and the X-Trans II sensor. As I go out to wander around and photograph, I am now specifically looking for scenes that lend themselves to black and white conversion. Of course, I will still make color images but I do want to fully explore the black and white capabilities of this camera.
This particular scene is the sailboat Renaissance moored in the small harbor in Urbanna, Virginia in the Northern Neck of the western shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay.
Thanks for looking. Enjoy!
Dennis Mook
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Dennis--
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shot. Like you, I first photographed in black and white, and interestingly I have found that the pictures I've made in digital that I respond to most strongly are a few that I've converted to b&w.
Which brings me to my question: I notice that here and in the previous post about Fuji b&w you've converted using Silver Efex Pro. I think the b&w you posted back in March was converted in LR. Will you be doing a comparative assessment of conversion software? Or have you already done one that I have somehow missed? (A search of your blog for "Silver Efex" turns up nothing, and "black and white" turns up only the March 2015 posts.)
Continuing thanks for your blog!
Walt Foreman
namerof@uky.edu
Walt, thanks for the comment.
ReplyDeleteI have had good success with both methods. For these last two images, I specifically wanted to use Silver Efex Pro 2 as almost all of my previous conversions have been in LR. Silver Efex reduces the image to grayscale. LR keeps it RGB and I find I have much greater control over individual tones, especially adjacent tones that I want to separate in luminance. Silver Efex is faster, LR is slower but, in my mind gives better overall control.
Sorry about keywords. I had kept them to a minimum. I guess I need to expand them a bit to help readers better find things.
I'm not sure that I will do a comparison, but since you brought it up, I may just compare a few images side by side in both pieces of software and see what difference I find.
By the way, I'll have a post next week of black and whites that were converted in LR. Just FYI.
Dennis