Comments on: Time in San Francisco – street photography

By: Matt Bamberg

Matt Bamberg — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:19:49 +0000

Black and white is always so mysterious.

–Matt Bamberg
Author, Greatest-Photo-Opportunities-San-Francisco

By: neil

neil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:42:11 +0000

Absolutely the only way to work in my opinion. And ten points for not simply converting the colour image to greyscale!
Careful decisions while post processing can make all the difference between an OK image and a fabulous one.

By: Zoe Hellar

Zoe Hellar — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:33:51 +0000

I prefer to take the pictures in colour and use Adobe Elements to B/W the image and adjust the “grade” of the black and white , depending on the mood I am trying to portray.

By: neil...

neil... — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:28:54 +0000

@Hot Cam: Just a small Sanyo HD2 for those. It was a challenge and many potential shots did not work out, mostly due to the typical digital camera delay between pressing the trigger and the shot actually being taken. From this week I have use of a Canon DSLR, so it’ll be interesting to see what I can get from that.

By: Hot Cam

Hot Cam — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:04:22 +0000

nice shoot bro, what camera do you use for taking those awesome photograph? you really know how to practice black white photography. great.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:59 +0000

@Augie: Cheers, Dawg!

@Forest: Post processing is the way to go. I think you need the additional control on how the image is converted to black and white rather than trusting the camera. I tend to look through each of the colour channels as selecting one of those can often add additional uniqueness to the scene.

By: Forest

Forest — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:10:01 +0000

I used to use my camera on black and white mode and various others all the time…. but fairly recently have been just using colour and doing the tweeks after in ps.

By: AuGie DawG

AuGie DawG — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:20:54 +0000

wow Neil,

Your sick with the camera dude!!!! I like the both pics!!! shaddy mystery vibe to it. Beautiful!!!

By: neil

neil — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:49:36 +0000

Thank you! The guy in the first shot was there every morning (except this morning, interestingly). I think he’s merely waiting his transport to work.

These were shot in colour on the Sanyo HD2, then post-processed in Photoshop.

By: good nutrition habits

good nutrition habits — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:40:37 +0000

That first pic is awesome, The shifty character looks like he just did something bad or is thinking about it

Did you shoot these in black and white or edit afterwards?