Quoting Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Personally - I shoot with B&W film for that B&W look, but I'm jut > simple. :-) > > I can't offer much on the basic conversion technique - I use the channel > mixer but I also take a look at the straight Red / Green / and Blue > channels to get an idea of what is there to work with. > > Some things just have to be done at the time of exposure. The red > channel gives you a good idea of what the shot would look like if taken > with a red filter. But sometimes you a red filter isn't enough to get a > good black sky. Then use a red filter and a polarizer - or in the case > of digital, just a polarizer and use the channel mixer. > > - MCC
The fellow that takes the high school darkroom class with me uses the red and polorizer combo. It produces some pretty dramatic results Dave > > Toine wrote: >> I'm experimenting with several techniques for B&W renderings. I tried >> the channel mixer. At the moment I'm experimenting with the adobe >> primer: >> http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html >> Most exposures give nice results and impressing Epson R2400 prints. >> I fail to get the results I used to get with tri-x and orange or red >> filters. Most difficult is creating a dramatic sky which was easy >> using a red filter: >> http://leende.net/galleries/trix.htm >> Do I need to tweak my exposure settings, RAW conversion or use orange >> and red filters. Would you like to share your B&W conversion secrets? >> >> Toine >> > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > Equine Photography in York Region -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
