Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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