I use Matt Kloskowski's black and white presets as a starting point at times.
http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/presets-better-black-and-whites/ On Nov 18, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > 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. -- Matthew Montgomery [email protected] -- 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.
