Welcome, ditto what Alan said :-) Your'e just a kidif you are in your
50's :-)
I always shot with colored filters when I was still attached at the hip
to my LX and KX bodies when shooting BW. Now I've gotten used to
shooting raw+jpg and switching to BW in Photoshop elements ...
converting to BW in post is pretty satisfying...
WHen I first switched to digital I -did- shoot bw in camera (I have a
K-5 now but started with ist D.) butfound it much easier to not switch
in camera
between color and BW after finding I had taken shots in BW that I meant
to shoot in color - so shooting in color and not switching settings in the
field was safer..
Look forward to seeing some of your work
Best,
ann
annsan.smugmug.com
On 5/2/2018 1:37 PM, Alan C wrote:
Welcome on board, Dale.
Most of us are retired too!
Alan C
-----Original Message----- From: Dale H. Cook
Sent: 2 May, 2018 7:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: New Member
I am a recently retired broadcast engineer who is taking up
photography as a hobby after using it largely only for work and
genealogical research over the last 30+ years. Most of my genealogical
photography going forward will undoubtedly be photographing
gravestones in B&W, the preferred format for those photos (I am a
member of the Association for Gravestone Studies).
I used SLRs for years (most recently a Pentax K-1000). but switched to
a digital camera (a Sony Cybershot) about 15 years ago for
convenience. With retirement I decided to upgrade, and recently bought
a Pentax K-70 with a DA 18-270mm as my walking-around lens. I am still
mastering the amazing array of settings but am making progress. I am
using a variety of colored B&W filters for gravestones, because 1) I
am on old guy who was used to doing that with film, and 2) although I
have done a fair amount of image post-production over the years I
would rather get the correct image in-camera than fix it in post.
Dale H. Cook, 50+ years as an SLR photographer,
Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm lens, using
colored filters for B&W gravestone photography
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