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Originally Posted by Loa
Hello Rense
Any tips when "shooting" with B&W in mind?
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Thats a tough question as it really depends on the style of your images and your B&W techniques .
Theres a few rules I follow, blown highlights can be exaggerated in a black and white also anything to do with the sky really needs clouds . Grey mid -day bright toneless sky's become very boring in b&w.
That said I blow highlights on purpose to get an old feel to my images .I like the bleed that it offers.
The other thing is colors theres three to be concerned with rgb thats it .This are you primary colors when adjusting for b&w.
I look for scenes that are heavy in red and green its gives me more tonal range in my conversions I tend to create darker images.
This is the best advice I can give.Practice and try diffrent things shoot overexposed ,underexposed and all things in between.
Take a image open it up and try oversaturate the colors before you process it and see what happens when you start converting ,its like magic flat tones disappear and it becomes more artistic etc.
Then when you have a style you've honed in on ,it's much easier to shoot for your conversions because you know what to expect.
I hope this helps Rense already covered the conversion process and he knows much more then me on that.
Good luck and looking forward to seeing some conversions.