29.3.11

Black and White Seminar Course

Last night my school mate and I took pictures for our Black and White Seminar Course. The task is to demonstrate if Black and White pictures are still up to date and to find out if color key makes them more impressive or not.
While thinking about the different things we could photograph, we decided to drive to France to take some nice pictures there at night. Being there we took some photographs of a cathedral, the railway station and daily life. But we took all these pictures at night to get some nice light effects.

 

It was a lot of fun, playing with the light and composing our pictures. In total we shot about 9 hours (with 1 hours break in between) and got ca. 1000 pictures. We decided to take the pictures in .RAW file format, so we will be able to develop the pictures digitally for perfect results.  
Unforunately I can't show you some of the pictures at this time, because at first we have to sort them and decide on which we will use for further image editing.

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34 comments:

  1. freddieblue1March 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    interesting black and white photos are cool

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  2. Green BusMarch 29, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    Wow, RAW is really heavy! But for treatment it is impressive. You can restore almost 100% of black or white areas to something very visible with little losses of information.

    I hope you post some B&W pictures soon. I'm curious.

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  3. SwxxtMarch 29, 2011 at 10:12 AM

    Don't know much about pohotgraphy good info for anyone to know

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  4. SterlingMarch 29, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    @Green Bus:
    of course you'll see some of those pictures in the future. But first i've to check on all of them before i will post them online ;)

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  5. UnknownMarch 29, 2011 at 11:29 AM

    great shots

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  6. psykeMarch 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    Do you have more pictures from that night?

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  7. SterlingMarch 29, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    @psyke yeah, but they are for private use only ;)

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  8. ChicagoTasteMarch 29, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    I was looking to get into photography. are the cameras and picture developing too expensive?

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  9. SterlingMarch 29, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    amateur equipment isn't that expensive, of course you've to deal with at least 400€ to start in photography, but I think it is worth.
    developing pictures isn't expensive, as long as you take the digital way, analog way is although very expensive.

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  10. Kelley MuroMarch 29, 2011 at 1:09 PM

    I wanna see the pictures.

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  11. The SpeakerMarch 29, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    Wow, this was really informative. Will be back to read more in the future.

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  12. XuianMarch 29, 2011 at 7:31 PM

    post black and whites!

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  13. AdminMarch 29, 2011 at 8:32 PM

    Very, very nice posts. I agree with Xuian, post 'em.

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  14. DrejMarch 30, 2011 at 5:48 AM

    This should be interesting. Post 'em here, will ya?

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  15. SterlingMarch 30, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    of course, just be patient ;)

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  16. AnonymousMarch 30, 2011 at 6:28 AM

    Looks extremely interesting. Is there any specific difference when looking for the perfect b/w photo to take, as opposed to colour?

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  17. SterlingMarch 30, 2011 at 6:31 AM

    @Alexis:
    Yes, there are some differences, the most important one ist, that the situation of the light is way more impartant than in colourd photographies, because when the picture ist taken you'll be able to recognize every shadow and highlight in the whole picture.

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  18. dsMarch 30, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    You can really make a picture look cool with just black and white. It has this special mood in it.

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  19. MaxPowerMarch 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM

    Looks great :D

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  20. RootYourDroid.netMarch 30, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    I love the shots doc!

    The church colors are beautiful@!

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  21. Danny MurphyMarch 30, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    Good stuff mate looking forward to seeing the black and white pictures.

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  22. Wayward DispositionMarch 30, 2011 at 11:30 AM

    I want more pictures!

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  23. doomsdayMarch 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    I really like this! Post the black and white pics already! :)

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  24. ChicagoTasteMarch 30, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    Seriously. I want to see the pictures.

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  25. izzfoshizzzMarch 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    im not a huge fan of black and white photots

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  26. ChicagoTasteApril 1, 2011 at 10:14 AM

    the suspense is killing me!!

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  27. JoeApril 4, 2011 at 6:22 AM

    Looks neat. black and white has always been my personal favorite form of photography.

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  28. KilltripApril 5, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    would be interested to see the results of your findings..

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  29. outdentherringApril 7, 2011 at 12:34 PM

    Ugh, .raw. Memories of buying additional external HDD's abound.

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  30. Jessica ThompsonApril 7, 2011 at 8:24 PM

    Wow, 1000 pictures? These are pretty neat, post more please! Following and supporting. alphabetalife.blogspot.com

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  31. AdminApril 8, 2011 at 7:50 PM

    No posts in way too long!
    Get back to it, this was about to take off!

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  32. AlexandraApril 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    Awesome! I love the first pic. I usually like both black and white and colour pictures but i am a huge fan of colour.
    Followed
    http://ttroton.blogspot.com/

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  33. AnonymousApril 11, 2011 at 11:02 PM

    Please post your pictures some other time, can't wait to see them!

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  34. IntramanMay 3, 2011 at 11:29 PM

    that first pic is awesome

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