Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yosemite as well as most large scale landscapes are of 3 colors... Greys ( or pinks,yellows, or other earth color) of rocks, blues of the sky, and greens of the vegetation. Usually, to my eye, there are rarely other colors of importance. For me, B+W works because the color palette is limited. The rainbow in Nathan's shot are unagreeable to me in B+W. They lack the punch that becomes the center interest point of the image. Back to Sonny's comments... The idea of capturing in color and either deciding later or previsualizing in B+W is the ideal. The issue is to first understand the color to monochrome mapping algorithms and then to implement in LR or other. It is the percentage of each of the RGB color spaces into a isingle married monochrome. I think of it as layers of emulsion with differing spectral responses.. Tri-x vs FP4 or old Tri-x. They have differing spectral responses which map colors into different amounts of black. In effect you can choose your emulsion after image capture. Anyway, I like Nathan's renditions Hope I can do as well on my next visit there Frank > >This makes the case for having a color capable camera with you. . . > > > > >-- >Regards, > >Sonny >http://sonc.com/look/ >Natchitoches, Louisiana > >USA > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Frank Filippone