Digital BW, The Print

> From: Ukko Heikkinen [mailto:ukko.heikkinen@...]
>
> I was surprised the other day when I saw a poster of an image by
> Ansel Adam of (I believe)
> Mt McKinley (?).  The skies really were a deep deep black.  Also
> I just read yesterday the
> small section in his Book 1 The Camera re the use of filters,
> particularly the reference to
> using a No. 25 (A) Red filter for strong contrast in landscape
> photography.  And so I
> turned back to one of my favourite images taken in the Grand
> Teton National Park and
> how I had previously ranked and weighted the Red, Green and Blue
> (and Luminosity) layers
> when converting to B&W.  Specifically, I found that to approach
> the massive punch I saw in
> the Adams print I had to use the Red layer as my base at 100%,
> with only slight if any use
> of the Green and no use of the Blue layer.

Try pushing red past 100%, setting green to zero, and making blue negative
by the same amount (e.g., 130% and -30%). That's something you can't even
approximate with filters.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...