Pentax DSLR Thread

Few more photos the first two are from Klondike Park (thanks Matt). I went there on Sunday for about an hour and a half.
A Necessary Evil
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A billy goat in MO who Knew?
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Just messing around a leaf falling
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I was on the way home from shopping on Sunday and happened to have my camera. I stopped and took this photo of a sunset with church in the distance. It was stormy earlier in the day and I just liked seeing some of the storm clouds within the sunset. A silhouetted church is always nice. It has been freezing cold and I've been busy at work so this is my only new photo
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Beautiful images ... what method do you use for converting to b&w? I know there are several different ways to do it, yours look really good, so I'm curious which method you use.
 
Larry R said:
Beautiful images ... what method do you use for converting to b&w? I know there are several different ways to do it, yours look really good, so I'm curious which method you use.
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Thanks a lot Larry glad you like the images. You are right there are many ways to do the b&w conversion methods. For me it is important to shoot in RAW as I'm sure you know. First, inside CS3 Camera RAW I did some processing setting my main exposure working with contrast, brightness. Then inside Camera Raw I also brought my saturation all the way down making it B&W just to check the image. Before I bring it to PS I bring the saturation slider back to 0. I never actually turn it B&W inside Camera Raw I do that in PS.

I bring the photo into PSCS3 and I use a channel mixer adjust ment layer with the monochrome box checked. Then play with the sliders in the channel mixer to get your look. I also used a polarizer filter for these shots.

I feel a lot more comfortable with my camera and just photography in general. This was my third time going out with my camera and I just felt a lot more confident. Photography is very new for me but I think it is much easier going video to photography as oppose to photography to video.
Josh
 
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