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Better To Shoot in B&W Or Convert in Post?

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  • 26-03-2020 11:36am
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    lil_kev
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭


    Hi All!

    I have quick question is it better to shoot on your digital in B&W or convert in post Lightroom/Photoshop?

    Thanks!


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    #2
    Heebie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Heebie


    Definitely better to do it in post. You have more control over the conversion.

    If you're shooting raw, it probably shoots color and sets a bit for grayscale... After which it just picks a channel (probably red) and displays that.
    If you shoot in jpeg, it drops lots
    of extra data.

    If you have 14 bits of color data, you can mix it down. Because red green and blue have very different sensitivities, the three data sets will be unique. Red will be the most consistent. Green will have higher contrast, and blue will have lower contrast, so more fine detail. Because they're all exactly the same image, you can mix & match between them using multiple channel mixer layers and masking.

    If you're shooting jpeg, you're also limiting yourself to 256 shades of grey effectively, where in raw, you can stay in 16 bit/channel mode, and have 16384 true shades, and with mixing, you might get true 65536 shades of grey... so much much more detail.


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