I haven’t done that much with B&W conversions. I’ve read a bunch of articles that proclaim not to use the simple LR conversion, but often that is what I do - just click the Black & White button in Develop mode. And then look at the HSL/Color/B&W panel to see what LR has automagically done. E.g., I just tried that with a shot I took of one of my for-sale lenses. I had the lens laying on a wood table near a window with fairly direct outside light. LR converts that to B&W with - adjustments to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Aqua, and + adjustments to Blue, Purple, and Magenta. I might fiddle with those adjustments just a bit to see if I can increase contrast or whatever. Last fall I did spend some time with a B&W conversion of a waterfall. I specifically wanted B&W rather than color because the bright green vegetation in the river bed was distracting me from the the falls and overall scene. So I did the simple conversion and then mostly worked with the Green and Red sliders to try to get a tone balance that felt right to me.
stan On Sep 2, 2014, at 11:13 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > I use the presets once in a while for my B&W conversions but its a > guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you > go about ot. If the colour photo has a lot of green do you start with > a green filter or something else. I just tend to run up and down and > pick one that looks nice. > > Any tips.?? > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > 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.
