Take shot as B/W or edit colour to B/W?

congo_90

Which is better?
Taking a photo in B/w
or, taking in colour and editing in B/w?
personally i think the latter is best because more oppurtunities to mess with it either in colour or b/w

quilmore

take colour pictures and use lightroom or ps to make them b&w, I'd say
it's much more versatile than on camera

daedalus2097

I'd agree. The camera is taking the picture in colour anyway and applying a software filter to it to produce a black and white image. The same filters can be applied in almost any image package, but with more control over the conversion to help lost contrast etc.

Paulw

The camera captures the image in colour anyway. If you shoot raw, all your images are colour.

If you shoot jpg, then your camera is using it's in built algorithm to convert from colour to B&W. You have no control. So, you're better off taking the image in colour and then you can fully control the conversion to B&W.

pete4130

Shoot in colour, that way your not losing any image info. shooting in B&W makes no real sense. you are effectively not capturing as much info from the image. you can always post process to make B&W.
You wouldn't shoot lower res because you only needed to print a 6x4? So to me it doesnt make sense to lose image data by shooting in B&W.

Pete.

daedalus2097

Thought I'd throw this one in here:



Scaled down obviously, but shot in colour at a high ISO, then a simple B&W conversion in Photoshop and it looks fine I think.