Comments on: January Photo Challenge – Go Black and White #3

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:40:13 +0000

Thank you my friend for the tip. They are certainly hard to do. Glad you enjoyed

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:44:36 +0000

There are some tips on my blog for macro photography, Thom.
Use the ‘search’ button on my main blog and you should find it.

Maybe it helps

I took thousands of macros before I got better at them – without a macro lens

I love that first shot though.
Gives it a real old time feel.

Will add the link tomorrow. Am falling asleep on my keyboard here.

By: Thom

Thom — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:23:16 +0000

That they sure do.

By: Barbara H.

Barbara H. — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:31:36 +0000

Love how details of the hibiscus just pop out in black and white.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:36:07 +0000

Oh I didn’t know that. Thank you for the info. If I knew how to add color I would do so. That’s what I wanted to do and then just forgot to go back out and snap a color photo LOL

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:32:57 +0000

LOL…it was the only thing I could think of to take a picture of when I saw my camera could do it LOL

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:32:18 +0000

Mahalo my friend

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:31:50 +0000

Thank you my darlin’ I’ll be anxious to see yours Have a great Sunday

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:30:05 +0000

I tend to like black and white for some reason. Makes the pictures look older though. I’m using Picasa more and more nowdays

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:29:19 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Only I was trying to go from black and white to color…that I can’t figure out at all. The other way I can do. Not well but Picasa gets it done. I’m glad to get the info on Macros.

By: Ebie

Ebie — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:21:20 +0000

Love the macro on the second one.

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:14:57 +0000

LOL awwww I don’t think I like flowers in B&W

By: juliana

juliana — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:10:55 +0000

nice effects although i would love to see the first one in colour.
every lens (including that in a compact camera)has a minimal focusing distance and won’t focus closer than that – your manual should know about it
i have a telephoto lens which at 300mm doesn’t focus closer than 1.5m whereas my macro lens focuses as close as 30cm (which, i think, is also the distance most compact cameras would focus at)

By: Melli

Melli — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:24:18 +0000

Well! THIS photo challenge has done it’s job now! It made YOU learn something about that camera of yours! I should turn one of my pics black and white today and finally have something up for this challene! I had said I would play… but so far… I haven’t. Hm. You did nicely this week!

By: kcinnova

kcinnova — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:17:25 +0000

I can’t get as close as I like and still get a clear macro shot — like Quilly suggested, I have to back up a bit to get the shot I want… or else I have to go buy a better camera! (Sadly, that is not in the budget for a very long time.)
And Quilly is right: Picasa does it for me! (But usually I am using grayscale in MS Publisher for the newsletter.)