Since the "straight color" rendering is just a mono image in blue, why
not pull out just the blue channel and save it as a B&W? Then just it
as a B&W. I did that with a screenshot grab of your blue "straight
color" flicker image and it made a nice B&W and was a simple process of
a few steps.
Don't know for lightroom but in PS just load the blue image, click on
the channels (same group as layers), make a copy of the blue channel,
delete tall the other channels and all you have left is the blue channel
copy in B&W. From my screen grab it was a bit over exposed but not too
badly clipped, you could adjust for that as you handle the overall
exposure processing when you open the raw file. Looking at the RGB
channels - there is a little bit of data in the red, almost nothing in
the green, and blue sparkles like a straight B&W image. So your data is
all there in blue and when the other colors are gone it is simply
displayed as B&W.
Mark
On 8/19/2012 8:56 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Trio Garufa played at the local milonga last night. They were light by blue
LED spots.
I'm finding processing the photos to be very challenging. Here are some
examples of various attempts that I've made to process them:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157631149650198/
B&W, "straight color", tweaking the color temperature to bring some of the red
in.
If I crank the exposure high enough that the blue midtones are visible, then
anything close to the highlights are totally blown out. If I try to keep some
tonality in the musicians faces, then everything is darker than I want.
Anybody have any ideas on how to handle this?
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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