In fact, I've used the LR low-contrast and high-contrast presets for making B&W and they do pretty well. I always tinker but on a couple occasions just went almost entirely with the preset, because it was so good. -Tim
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, LR has sliders for each color (10 or 12 different colors and > shades, IIRC). I really like how LR handles B&W conversions. > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:21 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Nov 18, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: >> >>> I've been looking at a lot of digital b&w work this week. >>> >>> When you digitroids do this, do you employ filters like we filmaniacs do? >>> I'm thinking that this might be a good Saturday a.m. experiment. >>> >>> When I look at the work on Pentax photo gallery, the B&w efforts >>> seem to share a common fault: 3 tones -- near-black, near-white, zone 6. >>> There just is not the tonal variance. >> >> That's probably the result of sloppy conversions. I don't employ filters, >> but I convert using the ACR BW function, which allows you to control the >> gray level of each color independently. It's actually superior to BW film in >> many ways. I believe Lightroom offers similar conversion features. >> Paul >> >> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Collin Brendemuehl >>> http://kerygmainstitute.org >>> >>> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" >>> -- Jim Elliott >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > > > -- > David Parsons Photography > http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com > > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ > > -- > 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.
