Yep, I'm with Stan on this one. Default LR B&W conversion (color/b&w
button) works wonders for me as a starting point. Then I can play with
tone, mix colors in HSL/Color/B&W panel, etc. Somehow, I don't quite
like the filter packages, though I used to have one (don't even remember
which) that I found useful. That is, until it caused some serious
problems with Windows...
On 9/2/2014 7:32 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote:
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
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