[Leica] Re: That Leica Glow

[ericm at pobox.com (Eric)]

B.D.:

> When converting to black and white, I now routinely to an "unsharpen
> mask" at the start of the process with an amount of of about 15%, a
> radius of about 55, and a threshold of 1 - which doesn't appear to
> "sharpen," but instead appears to bump up the contrast, creating more
> of a traditional "tri-x bw" look. Then, after doing whatever other
> work I'm going to do, I do a "normal" unsharpen mask at the end.....

I recently stumbled upon another guy's site about the same technique.

I'm trying to decide how it's different than just upping the contrast.

http://www.animalu.com/pics/process.htm

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Eric
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