Digital BW, The Print

I was just reading on John Paul Caponigro's site 
(http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com) today how he shoots everything in color 
and converts to black and white later (if desired) in Photoshop.

Two other ways to convert to black and white that you didn't mention: Using 
adjustment layers as outlined by Russell Brown, a senior creative director 
for Adobe, and published in a Picture magazine article a while back; and a 
Nik (http://www.nikmultimedia.com) Photoshop plug-in filter for black and 
white conversion that is part of their Color Efex Pro! set. I haven't tried 
either of these methods yet so I don't have any opinions to pass along.

Jeff Greer

At 01:09 PM 04/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I was told once that a useful workflow is to shoot color film to
>produce B&W prints . . . that that procedure offers more control than
>shooting B&W originally.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. Do you agree? What is your experience with such workflow?
>
>2. What do you then find the best way to translate the color to B&W?
>Selecting on of the channels? Blending channels? Using Grayscale?
>
>Sure would appreciate any input. TIA.
>
>Jack
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