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- ATH025, on 05/22/2009, -2/+30Am I the only one who wasn't impressed? Half of those are just snapshots, 1/4 are either not photographs or brutally photoshopped images (for example the image in the thumbnail is NOT a photograph), and the other quarter is above average.
- inactive, on 05/22/2009, -1/+21Mirror: "Just in case"
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---> http://rorr.im/digg.com/arts_culture/25_outstandin ... - Cy76, on 05/22/2009, -1/+19Um, this is not 25 "Outstanding" examples of "B&W photography." Three (maybe four) are IR, a couple are shopped, at elast one is HDR, and most of the rest are not "outstanding." A couple of the photos are good to very good, but not outstanding. Don't settle for mediocrity. Look up a few of the B&W masters and check out their work.
- inactive, on 05/22/2009, -1/+15Ooooh, you took a black-and-white picture of a lawn chair and its shadow and developed it at Save-On. You must be so brooding and deep
- lennyp75, on 05/22/2009, -3/+13seriously?
digg needs to stop putting up lousy attempts at photography on the front page. the majority of these were over-processed/photoshopped (poorly) and lack any creativity or technical merit to warrant them any credit.
buried. - xenuunex, on 05/22/2009, -3/+12Boring. Very nice pictures. But its not showing artistic creativity just by removing the colour from a picture.
I cant count the number of female friends on social networking sites that have black and white pictures as your profile. WOW. Your so artisitic that you removed the colour. Wow. - ar0ne, on 05/22/2009, -2/+10Shift + Ctrl + U
- MattB123, on 05/22/2009, -0/+8Buried for inaccuracy (chopped images, hdr, IR) and mediocrity.
- jonathanseely, on 05/22/2009, -8/+15Its amazing how expressive an image can be even without colour...
- MattB123, on 05/22/2009, -0/+7I came to say the same thing. There are tons of amazing B&W photos out there but not so much in this collection.
- gooberlx, on 05/22/2009, -0/+7Ansel Adams took some of the best black and white photography I've ever seen.
- traviswood, on 05/22/2009, -1/+8I dunno.. They were okay? The horse photo with the vignette in the back seemed a little too Shopped for me. As someone who seriously got back into Photography the past year I see too much tinkering in post with a lot of peoples work. Has anyone actually shot in Black and White film? It's really fun.
- RaisingSpirits, on 05/22/2009, -0/+7I started typing out a big complaint about number 8 but then I decided that I didn't care enough so I'll just sum it up with: #8 = Bull *****.
- inactive, on 05/22/2009, -0/+6Actually I think one of those shots (the trees) were shot in IR, not really b&w. I would call #8 more of an illustration than a photograph.
- RobbleRobble, on 05/22/2009, -0/+5Anti-climactic*
- Oddefellowe, on 05/22/2009, -0/+5Everyone with a point and shoot and Photoshop thinks they're Ansel Adams.
- Coffeedemon, on 05/22/2009, -1/+55 or 6 of them are above average/very good. The rest are just black and white pictures.
- Kosgey69, on 05/22/2009, -0/+4Thanks, it was needed.
- inactive, on 05/22/2009, -0/+4lol.
- rongallant, on 05/22/2009, -0/+4I agree. But why than are so many of these images blown out? Ansel could do it without PS.
- principlePwr, on 05/22/2009, -3/+7Iguana was an un-climactic ending.
- ptsuk, on 05/22/2009, -0/+4awe look someone learned how to use the desaturate tool in photoshop.
sorry but i'm bury'n this article as the title is inaccurate. As has been mention there are a few Infrared shots (not black and white), one HDR image, and the rest are just a collection of uninteresting photo's which have their color removed in post.
its clear someone is just trying to drive traffic to their little blog. - mtnboy, on 05/22/2009, -5/+9Who said color is the only good way. Amazing pictures
- hollowdh, on 05/22/2009, -1/+5Too bad 8's not a photograph at all... it's got some photographic elements shopped into a vector >_> way to go
the rest are okay.. it's not outstanding they're just O.K. - Subduction, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3There's no way you can possibly assert that they weren't.
There's nothing in that composite photograph that I couldn't achieve using strictly photographic sources on photographic paper with an enlarger or in Photoshop. A composite, certainly. In good taste? No. But proof of non-photographic or illustrative sources? You have none whatsoever.
I know it's fashionable to have a hard-on for photographic purity in our post-Photoshop era, but you're crying wolf without any evidence to back you up. - inactive, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3You're welcome. I always try my best to provide useful stuff to all of my fellow diggers. Enjoy :-)
- dstz, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3http://w2.yorkdispatch.com/NGPS/jrdispatch/jdart/L ...
History of black and white photography mostly begins and stop there, with the greatest man of those last centuries. If he hadn't been assassinated, maybe the south wouldn't have won the war (not talking of the military campaign, but of http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385722702/ref=pe ... ) , and all what ensued up to this very day as far as racial relationship go in western democracies (as incarceration rates from this era to now proves,) in all the countries that -on an historic scale- are looking up and are philosophically -shall i say, by analogy, are "geologically"- shaped, by the United States of America, including my very own France, would have taken a fantastically different turn for the good of humanity. President Obama isn't depositary of this story, at least not on the side his color would indicate. - rodrigo74, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3Good to know you are in first-name-terms with Ansel Adams.
- WhoDoneIt, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3I wouldn't really call it a sharp eye. It's pretty obvious that there are no white leaved trees like that.
- ijake, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3Yeah, that's a wallpaper... not only is not at ALL a photograph, but the original is in color, I have it on my laptop at home.
- ATH025, on 05/22/2009, -1/+4There's a line that you cross in photography when you layer 30 different images and illustrations into a single image. That is no longer a "photograph". You can't possibly say with a straight face that the silhouette of the boy, birds and the perfectly posed rabbit was even taken from a photograph. The tree, moon/planet or whatever, and the clouds seem like they're from different photographs but everything else was drawn.
- ScottyAnimal, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3I have been (or had been) doing B&W Photography before DSLRs were affordable and as good as they are now, as I am sure some of you have. I must say i get really annoyed when these lists show up on here with half of the photos have so many blow outs you cant see any detail or are clearly shopped or just plain *****.
I love my DSLR but nothing compares to getting that perfect photo from testing, dodging, burning,and filtering your photo in a darkroom.
I am now sad I dont have a darkroom. Thanks Digg.
P.S. check my photos on my photblog. Havent updated in a while but w/e. You can hate on them too if you want. lol. - Sneezyx, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3I agree. A few of these are nice; the rest are mediocre. And the infrared effect gets old fast.
- inactive, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Apparently not obvious enough for the author - which, judging by the article doesn't surprise me in the least.
- KevenM, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Number 20 was HDR
- ryrocker, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2
a lot of these were mediocre
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but #21, the one with the baby was really fkn powerful.... and idk if the kid standing on the hill with the moon showing was photoshopped or not... but it was pretty cool. - inactive, on 05/22/2009, -1/+3Anti-climatic*
- wayne247, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Sharp eye! I traced back the original photograph:
http://www.beckermanphoto.com/category/new-york-pa ...
"Central Park, summer of 2007. In the background is the model sailboat lake. This was photographed with infrared film." - DirtPile, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2I'm glad to be living in a post-racial age when we can finally mix black photography and white photography.
- wjlaw100, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Yeah, While IR is monochrome, the image is gathered from wavelengths out of the spectrum, so it is not true B/W, and should not be compared with B/W Photography. Just sayin.....
- Coffeedemon, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2They might have been. At least it would add some contrast. Most of them are so flat and lifeless.
- Coffeedemon, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2On another note, is posting a link to some random photo upload site or a static page from flickr (with no photographer credit) all that is needed to count as a "source" these days? Would it kill the people who run these fly by night sites to give credit where it is due (regardless of the quality of the image)?
- coheedcollapse, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2I was going to type up a long rant, but you hit the nail on the head.
Out of all of these, 23 is the only one that really stands out to me. A few of the other are good, but nothing outstanding.
People who digg photodumps like these up are the same that can't get enough of HDR and lomo. - jsrduck, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2I recognized several of these as color clip art images that somebody converted to b/w. Number 17 used to be my laptop desktop picture.
- dstz, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2As a side note the whole drug war, on both side of the Atlantic, is nothing but a mere echo of this human era defining struggle.
- Buttercupbaby, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Not impressed at all. Just one Alfred Hitchcock still would have been better. He kicked black and white ass
- harrisbradley, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2John 117 as a child: http://bit.ly/2YJZl
- Victawr, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2Yes, and look how impressive it can be WITHOUT a retarded desaturation
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x10/Victawr/120 ...
^- Original (coloured) #8 - Mankind121, on 05/22/2009, -0/+225 Outstanding Examples of Cliche
- rodrigo74, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Lighten up, dude. These pics are not _that_ bad.
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