Pretentious B&W

[GreyJackal]

Popped up to Oxford today for the hell of it and took a fair few photos. I started getting pretentious and arty with shadows as there was a really strong golden sunlight thanks to a few rain clouds.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767983/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/40/104767983_4fa81f7ee5.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="shadows" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767928/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/38/104767928_8c160ab993.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="shadows2" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767951/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/40/104767951_e37fb83d79.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="shadows3" /></a>

Plus a few more "normal" B&W types

Dreams
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767853/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/42/104767853_749535012b.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="dreams" /></a>

Escape
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767885/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/39/104767885_1a6c022e63.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="escape" /></a>

Bust - "Look at the norks on that!"
Statue - "I'll kill that bloody sculptor...."
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767899/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/39/104767899_d9f8ad5b74.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="expressions" /></a>

And finally something typical of the town :)

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbadger/104767827/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/40/104767827_a30039d212.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="cyclists" /></a>

[JOV]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm Nice

[still average joe]

When has fear of being pretentious ever stopped anyone on this forum?

Quite like the shots though.

[silverpenguin7]

Really like that 2nd B&W one!

[Radiohead]

Love the second and last ones.

[johndavis0]

very nice my fav is the second one.

(here we go again) which technique do you use to convert them to b&w

[GreyJackal]

Up the contrast and saturation during RAW conversion, Gradient Map in Photoshop then fiddle with the contrast and brightness again on a per image basis.

[t00thless]

lovely set of shots mate, really have some character to them :D

[emeyedeejay]

Looking good GJ ... particularly like shot 2 - the shadows are great in that shot.

[Boink!]

I concur, very nice set ofr b&w mate. :thumbs: