Thanks, Don for the heads-up on Topaz. So far 3 suggestions--excellent! Over the next year, I'll experiment with free trial possibilities, just for fun--see if any suit my needs. Cheers, Christine
On Jan 8, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Don Guthrie wrote: > Yes nice playfully successful BW rendering. I am using Topaz B&W > adjust plugin for some of my B&Ws. Lots of presets as starting points > but also lots of sliders so you can salt to taste. 30 day free trial > and I think $30 on sale. > > I noticed you are using TAV with the K-5. Thats the setting I have > been using for most of my outdoor shots. The results have been good. > For me it is sort like Auto mode with manual control of both aperture > & shutter. Happy shooting. > > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:35:27 -0600 > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PAW--2012--Week One--Cookie Jar > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi Everyone: While making some chocolate chip cookies tonight, I was >>> thinking about all I've recently read about black and white rendering, and >>> I kept staring at my cookie jar (named Minna) because it's yellow with >>> light blues and greens and reds and browns, and I thought maybe a >>> photograph was in order to play with the targeted black and white mixer >>> sliders in Lightroom. Shooting TAV, wide open, and at shutter speed 500 >>> (and EV +1.0), this frame was shot at ISO 25,600. Can you believe it!?! >>> Noise reduction for both luminance and color was 100. There were some >>> small blown highlights that I removed with the healing tool. So I had >>> myself some rendering play. Cheers, Christine >>> >>> >>> http://aguilapaw.posterous.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.
