Shoot Yosemite Valley day and night with landscape photographer Jeff Sullivan
I converted a few images to black and white using +Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, Silver Efex in the +Nik Collection, and +onOne‘s Perfect Effects 8. In some cases I also pre-processed RAW files in Lightroom and processed multiple exposures in Photomatix 5 to increase dynamic range before starting the black and white conversion.
2019 update: I’m continuing to experiment with black and white. Our eyes are drawn to brightness & contrast, and our gaze follows edges/lines. Black and white can help focus our attention on lines, shapes and light.
Here’s an album on Flickr of some of my results over the past dozen years: Black and White.
Update June 2020: Click on these samples produced in Silver Efex 2 to see a larger image:
Update June 2023: Click on these samples produced in Silver Efex 3 to see a larger image:
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Those are really nice. I use Lightroom for most of my post-production, and I like to drop the vibrance and saturation down, but not all of the way. I usually give clarity a boost (how much depends on the shot), but I like to mess around with the vibrance and saturation at low levels with high contrast, varying clarity. I find that I can get some very dramatic shots, like this one:
https://500px.com/photo/83464521/your-last-memory-by-ronin-dusette
Keep it up. Your work is awesome.
Le contraste manque de profondeur.....
Beautiful photos in Black and White.
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Beaux clichés mais pas extraordinaires.ou est la profondeur? .Le contraste est à sent. Desolé
+Frederic.benabdelkader Frederic.benabdelkader Did you "+1" your own post? Hahaha. Wow.
+Frederic.benabdelkader Frederic.benabdelkader Yes, high contrast would make them better, for sure. No need to keep explaining it. lol.
+Rōnin Dusette On this pass I mainly took images I had processed in color, since they already had spot removal and other steps done, but sometimes the noise seemed more noticeable in black and white. I should definitely adjust a few from scratch to black and white.
+Rōnin Dusette j'ai été regarder ton poste à part une pub gratuite pour Apple.et quand à tes photos proposés. Moyen est un terme très gentil en ce qui te concerne.un conseil ;.quand on y comprends rien en photos de mode.ce suis est ton cas.on regarde.on tourne 7 fois la lande dans ta bouche et peut-etre alors tu pourras critiquer pauvre cruche........
Awesome Jeff!
+Rōnin Dusette je n'en est pas besoin.pour etre photographierque pour les couvertures Moi ij'etait mannequin dans les années 80 et 90 étaient très rares et encore plus pour les http://hommes.ne n'inquiete pas pour moi mais dans ton cas c'est pathétique