Color into Black and White

As soon as you've taken numerous shots together with your Nikon D3000 DSLR, and are charging the battery up nicely on its EN-EL5 charger, there might be a number of shots that you simply wish to change into black and white. Black and white pictures can definitely assist enhance a photograph, they evoke certain moods and add an excellent offer of drama. Much more so than color. Color pictures are great, but you will find numerous occasions exactly where a great black and white shot will do a lot more justice.

There are numerous means of converting your photo to black and white. Obviously you can do this from your digital camera, but it is seldom a great idea to. Your camera's on board pc is all well and great, but in comparison to the power on your desktop, you are better off allowing your Pc do the work.

What exactly choices do you have for conversion?

The basic most obvious choice would be to make use of the desaturate command in Photoshop or similar software. What this does is takes away all the color info and leaves you with a black and white image. Fantastic, eh? Well probably not, the images which have been desaturated have a tendency to be quite flat and therefore quite boring.

There is a better way. I usually say you should usually shoot in Raw format. Your pictures will probably be so much better if you shoot within this method. Sure the measurements will probably be larger, but it is well worthwhile for the results. So once you have imported your pictures more than, simply select the 1 you would like and open up within the Raw editor.

You will be offered with a plethora of choices, but on among the tabs you should find black and white. Right here you will be given great control of the way you change to black and white. Choose the option and your image will probably be turned to black and white. Then you'll have a series of sliders equating to reds, oranges, blues and so on. It's these controls that give you the manage more than how your black and white image will appear. You are able to give your photo a real dramatic high distinction feel, or perhaps a soft, flatter and lower distinction feel. It will take time for you to get the effect you are after, but the more you play, the higher you'll get.

If you don't shoot in Raw, don't worry as Photoshop features a similar filter to convert to black and white and give you higher manage compared to the desaturate command.

There are numerous other methods you can change, but 1 fascinating factor you can do would be to attempt and pick up a cheap DSLR from ebay or someplace. Then, find instructions online pertaining to the design of digital camera you've bought to remove its IR blocking filter. Then place a filter that blocks noticeable mild but passes infrared. Your sensor will pick this up, but you will require a fairly long shutter time (perhaps more than a second), to seize the image. Demo and mistake is very necessary, but you will finish up with a few distinctive an dramatic black and white infrared shots that very few other people will shoot.

But for the rest of us using our regular DSLRs like the Nikon D3000 with its EN-EL5 charger, follow the above tips and you'll have great looking black and white pictures very quickly.