Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Richard. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard.lists@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Modern Services, Old Presentation > Jim, you'll have to figure out what you like in the B&W film first. e.g. > think of digital image as a specific brand of film. In your case, an > Olympus > E-System 4-th-Gen (or whatever it is) vario-ISO film. > > Now look at some of the film images that you like - do you like the grain? > The contrast? The tone? Take one of your favoriate digital image and now > use > photoshop or you favorite editor or one of the film simulation plugins and > tweak it until you get the same feel. It may take quite a bit of work and > may be you just won't be able to get something matching what you like, but > doing that should teach you quite a bit. > > Good luck! > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Jim Nichols > <jhnichols@lighttube.net>wrote: > >> I have been looking at various ways to show digital images as B&W. Many >> of >> the images I see on the LUG gallery come close to film images, but I have >> not been getting to that point. This was made with my E-510 and >> Elmarit-R >> 28/2.8 as a RAW image and converted to B&W, then sepia, in Elements 6.0. >> I >> know that there are specialty converters available, but have not tried >> them >> as yet. If anyone has suggestions, please comment. >> >> One local problem is the haze level and lack of blue sky for contrast. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Modern+Services.tif.html >> >> > > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >