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 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