Raven

[angierae]

It's not often I find photo's that I feel fit Black and White but Fatso here seemed to. I think it's a raven thing, they look much better in BnW.

I converted to greyscale and fiddled with the levels a little bit but again, I don't do BnW very often so C and C would be awesome :D

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3232734046_3971242b0f.jpg?v=0

[mzthang]

I've always been told not to greyscale an image because it takes too much out that you'd want to stay in detail-wise. The most often recommended method is to desaturate it so detail is not lost and then play with levels to get it 'just right'.

[redskull13]

The pic of the raven is razor sharp!
I personally think the raven itself is outstanding as a B+W photograph.
Such detail.
The background looks overexposed and my eye keeps getting drawn back to the white blotches unfortunately.
These birds can be difficult to shoot from what I understand, since they are pure black.

[mrdoug]

What were your settings for this photo... do you remember?

That's an incredible photo.

[jonrayner]

I am unsure with B&W photography and I struggled with the B&W lesson. To me it looks brilliant, the Raven is sharp and good background blur, even though perhaps a little too over exposed, but in some ways it accentuates the blackness of the Raven.