Comments on: The Forgotten (Yes you can do HDR Black and White!)

By: Bob Towery

Bob Towery — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:53:39 +0000

This image hits on two of my favorite themes – decay, and few tones. Really wonderful image.

By: Daniel Peckham

Daniel Peckham — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:09:56 +0000

Very nice! I recently did a B&W HDR of the Hydro Sculptured Canyon in Zion

By: LightningPaul

LightningPaul — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:25:08 +0000

Looks fantastic.

By: Jack Rice

Jack Rice — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:42:26 +0000

The interview was very good, gave some useful answers, and most of them very in-depth – always good.

Nice example of a black and white HDR, really does work with contextualising with the actual subject of the photograph – works really well. On the occasions where I do black and white HDRs, I just set the saturation to 0 in tone-mapping and seems to do the job well.

Also, I quite like using Topaz Adjust to create some great black and white photos that really do like original black and white photographs, as there’s no colour you can really use those more extravagant settings that would otherwise leave your photos looking considerably over-worked.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:44:33 +0000

Nicely done. Looks more of a 17th century painting

By: Zim

Zim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:00:56 +0000

It was very interesting to listen to you yesterday. I couldn’t stay for the whole interview, but I enjoyed what I saw. Very interesting to see a black and white HDR!

By: MiddleAgedWomanBlogging

MiddleAgedWomanBlogging — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:19:08 +0000

This looks like something out of a 1930’s movie scene! This must be close to Angkor Wat…

By: Stuck In Customs

Stuck In Customs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:58:32 +0000

Thanks very much!

Steve – I do the tonemapping at the end.

By: Susan Caplan

Susan Caplan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:21:45 +0000

Never thought about this before, cause the colors are one of the coolest things with hdr shots….but looks interesting…thanks for sharing this one with us !!

By: Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:32:37 +0000

I did a set of night HDRI’s in both color and B&W. It worked better with some than others.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlharris/sets/72157617950757395/

By: Richard Uchytil

Richard Uchytil — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:15:05 +0000

That is very cool! Makes me feel like I’m looking at a photo from the early 1900’s or earlier, Rudyard Kipling comes to mind, early treasure hunters, all kinds of things like that. I’ve never tried B&W but will now!

By: casusan

casusan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:50:52 +0000

Love this one Trey – really cool!

By: Gail Stayton Moshier

Gail Stayton Moshier — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:19:56 +0000

Happy Saturday, everyone! Very nice B & W photo, Trey!!! Henderson, yours was very good, also. Reminds me of the photos we took as kids, but not of this sort of thing, lol. Unfortunately, I lost my old photos when a house I lived in at the time flooded in the basement in the 60’s. I have a few left. Great job and thanks so much for sharing!!!

By: Demond Henderson

Demond Henderson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:17 +0000

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2597/3793460707_20c34689ea.jpg

By: Demond Henderson

Demond Henderson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:03:35 +0000



I've played around with B&W HDR's as well.  I like to convert the tonemapped image to a B&W.  Here's an example...

By: Michelle Pearl

Michelle Pearl — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:51:45 +0000

very well done – this makes it look like a fairytale!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:00:53 +0000

What’s your advice, convert to BW, then tonemap or convert afterwards?

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:42:06 +0000

I also enjoyed the TinyChat session yesterday. As far as those spammers: I just clicked on their user name and selected the “block” option. It worked well!

I do find the conversion of HDR images to B&W fascinating. I think I share the sentiment with you that the vibrancy is what we go for with HDR, so I only do a rare number of B&W HDRs. I think for me, one of the deciding factors to convert to B&W is whether the image has some kind of iconic status. For example, on my photoblog this year I posted a B&W HDR image of Ground Zero to commemorate 9/11.