A basic tour in how to produce nice black and white images with the help of Sigma Photo Pro. And in case I didn’t make myself clear in the video, no flash or strobes has been used in any of these images. Only halogen “flood” light, a 1000w of it - pretty bad really and therefor black and white is a really good solution. Also, camera used? Dp2. Surprise! :D
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About Carl Rytterfalk
Welcome to my blog! I'm Carl Rytterfalk, a swedish photographer who loves everything that is interesting in the world of photography. In 2002 I fell in love with the three layered Foveon sensor and has since then been an addicted user of Sigma cameras. Though I use Canon and Nikon as well. :)
Thanks for the video. I love B&W and your tips will be helpful. One thing I do in Lightroom is to remove chromatic aberrations in color before B&W conversion.
Thank you for posting this. I understand a bit better what SPP can do. The color wheel enables a kind of filter selection (red, orange, blue…) which seems easier and “try and see the result”, than mixing RGB in aperture monochrome mode for example.
When SPP will provide croping/framing and angle correction (horizon line) I think it will do all that I need.
I was playing with some of your X3F files and SPP for about a year. I thought about a DP1 but I hesitated a lot because I never put my hands on it. As I entered the local shop asking about a DP, the salesman told me that “it is a piece of crap, buy Canikon G10, pana lx3 or an Oly EP-1 instead”. Of course I bought nothing as I have currently a LX3.
Now the DP1X is very appealing and I am curious about SPP4. Do not hesitate to tell us about SPP4 and the improvements/differences from SPP3.3 for mac.
Hi, and thanks for your tutorial. Really clear and helpful. I’ve been playing around with adding vigniette (spelling!!! aaahhhggg!) within SageLight. It seems a very nice program to me, and even better, it is cheap!
Thanks again!
Thank you for the video Carl. Now I see what a wonderfull world of B/W can I create with just SPP. I always thought that for B/W pictures and low ISO’s I should use a Photoshop plug-in like Nik Software Silver Efex Pro or Alien Skin Exposure 2, but now I guess I won’t.
Have a nide day ;) or should I said night? (I’m across the ocean ha ha)
Carl,
Thanks for the video. I love B&W and your tips will be helpful. One thing I do in Lightroom is to remove chromatic aberrations in color before B&W conversion.
Ted
Carl,
Thank you for posting this. I understand a bit better what SPP can do. The color wheel enables a kind of filter selection (red, orange, blue…) which seems easier and “try and see the result”, than mixing RGB in aperture monochrome mode for example.
When SPP will provide croping/framing and angle correction (horizon line) I think it will do all that I need.
I was playing with some of your X3F files and SPP for about a year. I thought about a DP1 but I hesitated a lot because I never put my hands on it. As I entered the local shop asking about a DP, the salesman told me that “it is a piece of crap, buy Canikon G10, pana lx3 or an Oly EP-1 instead”. Of course I bought nothing as I have currently a LX3.
Now the DP1X is very appealing and I am curious about SPP4. Do not hesitate to tell us about SPP4 and the improvements/differences from SPP3.3 for mac.
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Tom
Thanks for the video. Very helpful.
See what the new 1.04 brings.
How big the improvement on AF are.
Thanks Carl for always sharing you knowledge! God bless you!
Thanks Rafael! God bless you too! :)
What a great way to teach and share knowledge, it is just like looking over your shoulder, thank you Carl, that video was so helpful.
Hi, and thanks for your tutorial. Really clear and helpful. I’ve been playing around with adding vigniette (spelling!!! aaahhhggg!) within SageLight. It seems a very nice program to me, and even better, it is cheap!
Thanks again!
Thank you very much for your effort, I appreciate it!
By, Manuel
Thank you for the video Carl. Now I see what a wonderfull world of B/W can I create with just SPP. I always thought that for B/W pictures and low ISO’s I should use a Photoshop plug-in like Nik Software Silver Efex Pro or Alien Skin Exposure 2, but now I guess I won’t.
Have a nide day ;) or should I said night? (I’m across the ocean ha ha)