On 9/2/2014 11:13 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my B&W conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you
go about ot. If the colour photo has a lot of green do you start with
a green filter or something else. I just tend to run up and down and
pick one that looks nice.
Any tips.??
Dave
The way it worked when we were shooting B&W film was the filter color
would lighten like colors & darkens opposite colors (there's a word, but
I can't quite recall it).
Color wheel: two triangles, one inverted.
Red
/ \
Magenta--/-----\---Yellow
\/ \/
/\ /\
Blue--\-----/--Green
\ /
Cyan
Red lightens Magenta, Red & Yellow; darkens Green, Cyan & Blue
Yellow lightens Red, Yellow & Green; darkens Cyan, Blue & Magenta
Green lightens Yellow, Green & Cyan; darkens Blue, Magenta & Red
... and so on.
Funny thing about memory. I still remember that color triangle wheel
thingy clearly, but I can't for the life of me recall the little
mnemonic ditty that was supposed to help me remember.
I keep coming up with "Bad Booze Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes
Well", which was a horse of an entirely different color.
[Brown, Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White]
PS: If you can't see the triangles try Courier New font.
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