Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, Thanks for the suggestions. I will follow up on some of those. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Modern Services, Old Presentation > Jim that is a very popular aspiration of course. I don't know what > controls > are available in your Elements program but one common approach for bw > conversion is to vary the percentages of each colour channel, red, green > blue, that are used to make your grey version. There are a lot of other > options in Raw and Photoshop, as well as third party plug-ins as you no > doubt have guessed. > Regarding the haze, I think you need to tackle that on the camera. While > you > can simulate some filter effects afterwards that is not the same as using > the filters on the camera. > I had a quick look with Google on the subject. Try a search for elements > black and white conversion. It looks like there are tutorials and > discussions out there that may give you some ideas. This digital stuff is > addictive. There is a lot to learn, just like a wet darkroom but at the > same > time an enormous range of possibilities. > > 2009/2/2 Jim Nichols <jhnichols@lighttube.net> > >> 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 >> >> Comments and critiques welcomed. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > Weather is here, wish you were beautiful > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >