Welcome Dale, I don’t know if you’ve spent time on other online photo discussion fora, the good news is that PDML seems to be one of the most technically clueful groups of photographers in an on line forum. The bad news is, that the other ones are even worse.
If you ask for either technical or artistic advice, you will get some excellent, well informed answers. You’ll also get a lot of pure, impure and tainted bollocks for advice. And puns, you’ll get those also. You’ve undoubtedly seen comments about the annual, do pick up a copy. The first one came out shortly after I joined the list and my copy was an excellent lesson in the art of humility. > On May 2, 2018, at 9:52 PM, Dale H. Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 11:00 PM 5/2/2018, Mark C wrote: > >> I'd be very interested in hearing how you use colored filters on the K70 for >> digital B&W. > > Mark, there are generally two cases. One is to increase the contrast between > the stone and the (usually green) background - orange or red to give a light > colored stone a darker background, cyan or green to give a dark colored stone > a lighter background. The other is to minimize the appearance of mold, algae > or lichen on the stone. I've already picked the small graveyard where I will > first practice. Most of the stones there have patches of an orange lichen on > them, so I will try shooting in B&W through #16 and #21 filters. > > Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA > Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640 > http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html > > > -- > 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. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- 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.
