No, when doing B&W conversion from colour I handle the filtration in post (Note I've been known to do this with both colour film and digital. Provia 100F in particular makes just lovely B&W images).
B&W images online tend to be overly contrasty as that grabs attention (and I say that as someone who tends to like a lot of contrast in his B&W). You can do very nice B&W conversions with subtle tones but that sort of image really needs to be printed to look good, especially on consumer-grade monitors. -Adam On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Collin Brendemuehl <coll...@brendemuehl.net> 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. > > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
