[Leica] Experimenting B&W in Lightroom

[platoali at gmail.com (Ali Yazdi)]

I tried with curve to get more black and whites. here is the result:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/platoali/Street/Un-4.jpg.html

I think it is much better now, the older one  was too dark.

Thanks you very much


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Leonard Taupier <len-1 at comcast.net> 
wrote:

> Hello Ali,
>
> Both the color and b&w photos have very low dynamic range. If you look at
> the color photo levels histogram you'll see that everything is bunched in
> the middle, no blacks or whites. If you adjust the levels on both sides so
> the curve is right at the edge the photo will look much better. Then see
> how it looks on your monitor.
>
> Your b&w photo is a little different. Still low dynamic range but the
> curve is all the way to the left with most of the whites missing. This is
> what Richard mentioned on the grays. Bring the right side to the end and
> that photo will really snap.
>
> Regards,
> Len
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Ali Yazdi wrote:
>
> > Experimenting with lightroom and black and white conversions. Any
> > suggestion?
> >
> > B&W exported from Lightroom:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/platoali/Street/Un-2.jpg.html.
> >
> > The original color one :
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/platoali/Street/Un+color.jpg.html
> >
> >
> > I have also a problem with Color. The color that is shown in DMR LCD is
> > much  much more beautiful  than when I open them in Lightroom or any
> other
> > Software.
> >
> > Bests
> > Ali
> >
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