First "on my own" wedding

[Maleko]

For just over a year I have been helping out a wedding photographer (15 years experience himself), getting experience for myselfetc. This year I have gota few weddings lined up that I have got myself, here are some shots from the one last Friday, typically in the UK it rained, so nice outside shots just weren't going to happen, I have another one this Friday which is ata gorgeous venue.
I'm using a 50D, 24-105mm f4 L, 580EX II
Some wide shots were taken with EF-S 18-55mm (horrible lens, but does the job - needs replacing!)
Excuse the watermarks.

[Daniel Browning]

Wow! Fantastic work.

[Madison]

Nice. Although the second pictures is way too gray. There are ways to convert color to black & white and retain more tone.


Other than that I like the pics you put up. I recently did my first wedding as well!

[Gian Luca]

Madison,


Can you give an indication how to convert in BW with more tone. I do it in camera raw, but sometime the tone is not up to my expectation.

[Maleko]

Madison,


Can you give an indication how to convert in BW with more tone. I do it in camera raw, but sometime the tone is not up to my expectation.
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Would be good to know! I can only guess its down to adjusting the levels on their own? Or saturation?


Cheers for the comments guys

[Jarhead5811]

Nice...All of them but I REALLY like the last one.

[Madison]

I use commercial software for conversion. Sometimes I use Silver Efex Pro, but most of the time I use an automated action.


But you may want to look into Photoshop's Channel Mixer. Because converting to greyscale without adjusting color curveslevels behind it is usually no good.





I will post an example here for you (see below)

[Madison]

[EDIT] picture removed [:@]

[Maleko]

Think you have to add people as a friend first? i dunno, lol


the second image or the car one sorry? will get it sent to you later on today


edit: see what you did with that file! looks a lot better

[Madison]

No need to send me the file: i worked with the one from the post and even from that one I could gain a lot more tonality than your conversion.


So you may want to look into that.