Hi Dave, IR conversions can be tricky. You have to start with a good exposure. I've found that the best candidates have good contrast before conversion. I shoot them in RAW and adjust brightness, exposure and contrast in the RAW converter to get a nice distinct image with a good histogram. After conversion to tiff, I use the channel mixer to convert to BW. I find I generally have to use at least 100 percent of the red channel, sometimes more. I usually have to reduce the constant by 2 percent or so. Sometimes 6 or 7 percent on the blue and green channel will improve the highlights a bit. Hope this helps. I'm still working this out myself, but the above seems to get me very close to where I want to go. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi gang. > > Pondering over this the past few days, well not Sunday, i was more concerned > about dieing > in the > heat, than this,<vbg> > > Converting to B&W. i seem to have a 80-20% nogood/ good ratio. Just wondering > were i > should be > spending my time. In the colour stage adjusting the file or in the converted > stage. > Getting good contrast > seems to be my biggest problem. > IR seems the bigger miss. Getting the false colours to a good B&W. > > Maybe i';m just not clear on what i should be looking for or to. > > Any suggestions. > > Dave > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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