Can you take black and white photo's with a Finepix S5000?

Question

camera. I love black and white photo's . Just want to know if it is possible to take black and white photo's with a digital camera.??

Answer 1

First of all shoot in colour, you have far more control in Elements to convert to B&W. Shoot in Raw and in the Raw Converter open as a 16bit image, this will help with the 'grainy' look. To convert to B&W try this, open your image and open 2 Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers, on the top layer just turn the Saturation slider all the way to the left (desaturate to B&W) on the next Layer down change the blend mode to Color, then by altering the Hue slider you can mimic the effects of a Red filter, Blue filter and green filter, and anything in between. Choose the setting that gives you the tones you want. Then Flatten the image, that's the B&W conversion done. Now for the fun part, using the Lasso Tool do a rough selection of the say the sky, feather lots (the amount you feather depends on the picture resolution try 50 to 150), then with the marching ants still showing the selection open a new Levels Adjustment Layer, the selection will have been masked out so you are working on just the sky. Then by moving the little triangles below the Histogram you can make the sky darker, lighter, soft and wispy or truly 'Gothic' it's up to you. Do the same with any other part of the image, you can control the brightness/ contrast of any part of the image this way, you are in full control. For this technique to work you need to be in 16bit mode from a Raw file, an 8bit Jpeg will just be torn to pieces and you don't want the Jpeg artifacts that are created by the compression (the 'graininess you refer to). Another tip is that B&W pictures should have no Black and no White in them, by which I mean no part of a B&W image should be 'pushed' to total Black or a total White, if they are you are loosing detail, and detail is the name of the game with B&W, they should be composed of shades of grey (they also print better), unless it's a deliberately High Key or Low key image. Look at any Gallery pictures to see what I mean. Chris

Answer 2

I believe so, but why would you want to do that? From personal experience (and my most favorite medium is black and white - just LOVE it!!), it is best to shoot all shots in color, then tweak them later in Photoshop (or whatever post processing program you have.) This way, you can make several different looks from one photo - b&w, sepia, monochrome, selective coloring, etc.

Have fun! :-)

Answer 3

They are called Black and White, but they are made up of 256 shades of gray and called grayscale.

This works in all images except the RAW format.

But, you have better control over the actual image if you take in in high color and then in your software make a copy and turn it into grayscale... Now you can "peak" and "tweak" the image to get a truer black and white.

beaux

Answer 4

Every picture you take is full colour.

HOWEVER, the software you use to access the pictures and 'touch them up' should be able to do effects.
2 of these would be, 'Black and White' and 'Sepia Tone' (for old looking photo's)

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Answer 5

Yes most certainly with excellent results. If you have the handbook I think you should find how to do it on page 62.
Otherwise take a normal photo and convert it on your computer.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

yep ,they usually have a special seting on them along with sepia sometimes a couple of others,alough if you take them black and white its not easy to change to colour but if you do it the other way round and photo prog on your pc will do this,hope this was helpfull

Answer 8

it is possible...just convert them in photoshop or program. YOu can do all kinds of fun stuff...just play around with it.