A little trick to help with the psychology of it is to shoot RAW+JPEG and have the JPEG settings render the preview in black & white on the back of the screen. It's a little psychological trick to make you think you have Tri-X in the camera.
Bob > > Digital B&W is a rendering process. > > Meter as normal. Capture in RAW. Process using one of a dozen > or three > different methodologies to render B&W from your captures. > > Currently I use Lightroom 2 and its HSV control panels in the > Develop > module to do 99% of my B&W rendering work, but PSE and ACR will do > very well also. > > Godfrey > > > On Nov 30, 2008, at 8:47 PM, John Graves wrote: > > > The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic > > Black & white photos and have had trouble with drool. > (Anybody want > > to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some B&W. > > > > Do I whip out my Gossen and open up 3 stops from white? Is this > > something I can do in Raw Processing? (Or should do?) For the > > moment, I am sticking with PSE 3 but have kept Raw as > up-to-date as > > I can. Are these workable for processing. > > > > Or do I buy a roll of Tri-X and a new bottle of Rodinol? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
