Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob the very best way to absorb the instruction from Don Lluis is to walk and shoot with him all day in a superb city environment (with intervals for delicious Catalan food) then sit over a beer in front of the computer with Lluis. You need to go to Barcelona! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 21 February 2014 17:25, Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Lluis. An excellent tutorial that gives a starting point to us > novices who wish to develop our own processes. > You are very generous. > Best, > Bob > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Feb 20, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Lluis Ripoll < > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you Susan, Gerry, Bob, Larry and others ... I really think I don't > deserve such mentions, I've saw after years the B&W of many of many of you > are sharing with us, everyone has his own style and I don't know if I can > explain my workflow as a certain rule ... , IMHO is a question of the > personal preferences. Even so I can explain why I work. > > > > I normally work in manual mode and in digital I prefer a little under > exposure than over exposure. Usually I prefer use old lenses, IMHO they > give more medium tones and less crispy images to work. When I process the > DNG I have certain "own" rules, I try to avoid or at least minimize the > extreme tones of the Dynamic Range, Absolute Black (Zone 0) and absolute > white (Zone X), usually I start marking the white and the black points, > after I do a first arrangement using the extended Dynamic range that offer > Capture One (medium tones for shadow and lights), after this I work with > the curve to obtain the contrast I want, finally I work on the classical > controls of Exposure, Brilliance and Contrast an if it is necessary I > correct the previous values I've do. I edit the image in Photoshop and I > click in to the Automatic levels, generally I accept what PS does. If the > image is too flat I try to improve it with Silver Efex Pro. > > > > IMHO Capture One is a great tool for work the B&W, it has different B&W > presets, and I have also build mines. The same thing with Silver Efex Pro, > I've never use the standard presets, I've build some own presets, but > rarely they work for a new picture, I have to modify different things. > > > > When I work I always take care of the histogram, and I try to cover all > the range. Silver Efex Pro offer the histogram and the 10 zones, this is > useful for me, I can better correct extreme Zones 0 and 10. > > > > I don't know if this can be interesting for you, I think is nothing new, > last Summer our friend Geoff was with me looking my workflow, I work by my > instinct and I think difficult made, as you say, a tutorial, this sounds > for me too pretentious... > > > > I hope have answered your question ... > > > > Thank you very much! > > Lluis > > > > > >> El 19/02/2014, a las 16:49, lrzeitlin at aol.com escribi?: > >> > >> Lluis, > >> I am always impressed by the tonal quality you manage to achieve in > your B&W pictures. Especially when viewed on the new high resolution screen > of my Macbook Pro. We may differ on matters of composition and subject > selection but your B&W images are far superior to the bulk of those shown > on the LUG. I mean no disrespect to other photographers but your pictures > are in a class by themselves.? It can't all be the Leica Monocrom.? The > results are just as good with every camera you use, even old film cameras. > The big question is how do you do it?? > >> Could you describe your workflow from shutter click to posting on the > internet as a tutorial for less adept photographers. I would like to be > able to get your results in B&W images. > >> Larry Z > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information