Processign B&W Portraits/Weddings

[AndrewSt]

I am quite confident processing in colour but not always happy with any B&W conversions. Those shooting weddings/portraits etc any tips or links to good online tutorials? Do you tend to use some presents or process each individually?

 

[AndrewSt]

Wrong board. How do I move this to the PP board?

 

[Ady N]

Silver Efex Pro is a good tool for B&W work.............

 

[PDub]

One quick way: Auto adjustment to get it looking ok in colour first. Medium contrast curve preset then Punch preset. Then switch to black and white.

 

[TheBigYin]

Wrong board. How do I move this to the PP board?

Normally, you'd report the initial post and ask for it moving. Or, you could just let a helpful staff member stumble over it and move it for you

Any answers I'm likely to give on processing B&W wouldn't be too helpful I'm afraid, as generally it'd be film related and involve different developing chemicals for different degrees of grain or contrast.

 

[swanseamale47]

Another vote for silver effx, although I now use my own black and white preset in photoshop a lot more these days. As someone else said get it right in colour, go to B+W and tweek the contrast a bit.