B&W Let's see your Black and White photos

Not sure what I was trying to achieve here but I do like it Battered old low grade smart phone and an edit in Snapseed looking for a Grudge look ( Normal photos look terrible on this phone so an effective down grade is the way to go. HDR edit to bring the bricks out either side , these were in near darkness and then a little extra noise ( It was quite noisy in the first place) and then knock the highlights down a little. All in phone so as it is only a little screen I didn't know exactly what I was getting until I got home and transferred it to the PC .


LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
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Sunday I came across my Kodak Superzoom and thought I'll try some batteries in that ( It happens every year) The batteries came today with a little charge in them so I thought I would give it a go out of my back window then my front.I intend to take it on my dog walks with me and if I see the usual birds of prey get a shot for identifying purposes. Hopefully it will do the job.

This one was taken with a fixed shutter speed of 1/250th thinking the camera would up the ISO to suit for some reason it didn't although it was set on auto. So I have had to up the shadows in post. I'm going to have to spend some time with it to re familiarize myself with its functions and capabilities .

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at about 50 to 60 feet away ,the light house is about a foot tall.
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Craikeybaby said:
I like Staithes, and I like black and white photos, but I feel like this loses all of the different brightly coloured houses. Although that shot has been done millions of times, including by me.
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I've taken that shot several times but only with a 35 or 50mm lens and I wanted to take it with a 28mm, so I did. Usually when I'm there the light is poor, it was on that day. I know that B&W conversions shouldn't be a last resort but sometimes I do think that they make a better end result than a dead light colour picture which is what those above would have been.

Here's another taken on a dead flat light day. I don't normally take pictures with strangers prominent in them but I thought I'd snap this one of some tourists at Whitby.

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