First attempt at B/W

[Cygnus]

Drove out to the cemetery this morning to try some black and white pics. What do you think?

[Wintermute]

The third one is my favourite.

I really like shooting black and white, I think it makes you concentrate on the composition rather than getting overwhelmed by the colours.

I don't know if you do this, but I sometimes put a red filter on when shooting B&W, it seems to make it all a bit more contrasty.

[admin]

There are some good actions available for photoshop to achieve a variety of film and filter effects also.
You can adjust the channels layers to get similar effects too.

[Tim N]

3rd pic is my pick as well !

[Wintermute]

There are some good actions available for photoshop to achieve a variety of film and filter effects also.
You can adjust the channels layers to get similar effects too.

bah.  I'm not even 30 yet and I'm old-school.  I've still got all sorts of skylight filters and all kinds of things lying about.  I was over the moon when I found out my cokin adaptor thing fitted onto the D60's kit lens (only one i have so far for it) and spent a merry afternoon playing with that and seeing how it all works on a digital, only to find it can do half the effects itself.

[Truckman]

I like the composition of the second pic best...The third one is a little too busy for me...Ben

[Mike]

Steve, if you re using CS3 try the B&W option in the layers menu, you can adjust the different colour sliders to give you the effect you like best, Ideally, for converting to B&W, you need an original colour shot with a good tonal range to allow you to pull out all the different shades of grey. Don't make the mistake a lot of people do by trying to rescue a 'poor' colour shot by changing it to B&W.
Of the 4 you've posted here #2 stands out for me as it has the best tonal range.

Mike

[OZZI-BLOKE]

Nice shots, but the highlights are just a little bright in the first couple. Maybe a little under exposure might help then you can bring out the details in the shadows in Photshop. I like #3, bit more of a tonal range,
But like Ben says, the background is a little busy. Nice effort.