Digital Photography (2nd Edition)

[anakin]

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BACOLOD LANDMARK


DENUDATION

[CrasHBURN]

anakin: great composition! nice capture sir!

[Ian]

ian, gi tuyo na nimo ang black border?

Black border sa picture? Yes boss.

[Ian]

The strong black border is supposed to be a lead-in to the subject's face and action boss markyap.

[markyap]

nice touch...thats why i commented bout it

[koto]

Guys we have another talented girl who willl be joining us in DSLR photography world, her cam just arrive yesterday from US, pentax k110d, she is still a begginer, and im her sensie hehee , she will post some pics 1st week of december after our dec 1-2 photo outing adventure in balamban and some where in the city

Landscape Shots again..

sony Alpha

New Pics!!!

landscape test shots:

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[img width=500 height=335]http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/551/dsc02700resizera7.jpg[/img]

[img width=500 height=335]http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4605/dsc02467resizemg2.jpg[/img]



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[sister maria]

the way i understood it, b/w films are quite sensitive to the blue end of the (light) spectrum. i have always wondered about the b/w modes in digital and their behaviour as opposed to direct approach of the film (ie., light). are all digital cameras bound to produce panchromatic-like results? if so, then -- for the lack of a better word -- it sucks.

my hubby just gave me one of his d-slr (he's a film dinosaur savant) and i want to shoot in b/w but without the boringly flat, drama-lacking sharpness and extremely ridiculous loss-of-detail contrasts (or the opposite foggy atmospheric lightness) that d-b/w modes produce.

i have read some french photo issue about digital b/w modes and how pro's don't usually use it. instead they shoot in colour, post-process the shot in photoshop using channel mixing processes thereby emulating different b/w film characteristics, like mimicing silver process films.

so boys, i don't really want to dabble and spend much time in post-processing (lacks the necessary p-shop skills), is there, or are there any quick short-cuts like existing filters where i could just emulate a b/w film-process with a click of a mouse or two? are there any special software b/w-emulation applications out there? does d-slrs come with rgb channel filters in b/w mode that i can program myself just to avoid digital post-processing?

little girl wants to know. thank you.



/cross-posted in black & white

[pnoize]

sister maria

there are photoshop actions that simulate b/w film, one such is digidaan's B&W 2.0 action. You just load it and press Shift + F4. It also lets you play around with the hues to bring out some of the details.

here are a couple of samples:






....i just don't remember if i used my orange lens filter on any of these two shots.

[Ian]

Hi sister maria,
Try this one.. a perfect example of a nice (not flat) B&W Conversion with just 1-2 clicks..

1. Open File for conversion (Photoshop CS2)
2. Click Image ---> Calculations (You should see the conversion from Color to B&W)
3. Source 1
Background at Red Channel
Source 2
Background at Green Channel
Blending set to Overlay
4. You should have a nice Green / Red Channel Blended B&W. Try to play around with the backgrounds on each source and blendings.

[Ian]

nice touch...thats why i commented bout it

Thanks boss markyap