Sometimes I'd rather buy a book than new software. I greatly enjoy this one ...
The Art of Black and White Photography: Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow Torsten Andreas Hoffmann http://www.amazon.ca/Art-Black-White-Photography-Techniques/dp/193395227X/ On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ -- -bmw -- 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.
