On Nov 18, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > I've been looking at a lot of digital b&w work this week. > > When you digitroids do this, do you employ filters like we filmaniacs do? > I'm thinking that this might be a good Saturday a.m. experiment. > > When I look at the work on Pentax photo gallery, the B&w efforts > seem to share a common fault: 3 tones -- near-black, near-white, zone 6. > There just is not the tonal variance.
That's probably the result of sloppy conversions. I don't employ filters, but I convert using the ACR BW function, which allows you to control the gray level of each color independently. It's actually superior to BW film in many ways. I believe Lightroom offers similar conversion features. Paul > Sincerely, > > Collin Brendemuehl > http://kerygmainstitute.org > > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" > -- Jim Elliott > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
