High contrast black and white photo sites?

[systmster]

Hello,

I am trying to find artists that use digital photography and generate
high contrast black and white pictures.
About 1 year ago I saw and artist list his site and loved the pictures.
Alas I have lost the link.
So if anyone has some good links to sites that have high contrast black
and white pictures if you could share...

Thanks!

[bugbear]

Just apply a colour curve like this:

http://homepage.mac.com/ilyons/tutorials/tutorial_images/curve-4.gif

Easy.

BugBear

[Helen]

"systmster" <spyd...@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:L9udnTosfoe...@magma.ca...

I don't know about high contrast, but I've loved this guy's B&W work for a
long time:
http://www.animalu.com/pics/photos.htm
Helen

[Alan]

In message <1dadndZMQaRWl3Te...@pipex.net>, Helen
<gorm...@gormless.co.uk> wrote

Try also
<http://home1.gte.net/res0a2zt/thumbnails.html>

--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

[bugbear]

systmster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find artists that use digital photography and generate
> high contrast black and white pictures.

Me!

Start with a nice colour photo:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/bugbear33/contrast/colour_thistle.jpg

Make it grayscale in Gimp (I just used mode change - merge channel would give more control)
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/bugbear33/contrast/bw_thistle.jpg

A bit flat.

And then I applied this curve:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/bugbear33/contrast/curve.png

Which results in this:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/bugbear33/contrast/bw_hc_thistle.jpg

BugBear

[systmster]

Cool. Thanks.

But I love higher contrasts between light and dark... so I would also
use the dodge and burn to selective modify some sections too..

Great use of the Gimp...

[systmster]

Thanks Helen, actually cross posting is when you post to multiple groups
at the same time. What i did is also considered "bad form" but I was
really anxious for the answer and yes you were right about your link it
was the one I was looking for.

Thank you very much!

[bugbear]

systmster wrote:
>>
>> And then I applied this curve:
>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/bugbear33/contrast/curve.png

> But I love higher contrasts between light and dark...

The curve can be more extreme if you wish. Depends
just how "high" you want your contrast to be.

> so I would also
> use the dodge and burn to selective modify some sections too..
>
> Great use of the Gimp...

I used a single tool (2 if you count mode change).
Not exactly exotic, but effective.

BugBear