Digital BW, The Print

>Obviously you shoot everything with a hi-speed Canon and hope that you will
get something, if anything! >"slow down your shooting", please . . . most
competent photographers I know have an idea of what >they>are looking for,
including the contrast effect (frequently part of their style). The "one"
particular >effect that you speak of is more often than not the one the
photographer was looking for, as opposed to >an "artiste" hacking away at
something with every function photoshop has to offer, hoping to make a silk
>purse out of a sow's ear.

While I agree with your criticism of the idea that filters are bad because
they "slow down your shooting"  I think the above comment is a little
unfair. The effect of filters on exposure and contrast is not completely
predicaable. Filter factors are only a rough guide to the necessary exposure
adjustments. And metering through a filter instead of relying on filter
factors doesn't always work well because the meter and the film aren't
equally sensitive to the same colors. The effect of the standard filters
used in black and white photography also varies depending on the quantity
and hue of particular colors in a scene and isn't very predicatable in many
situations. So while speeding up photography isn't a good reason IMHO to
ignore filters, the ability to make adjustments later when converting color
film to monochrome images is still very useful.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bhhc" <tawow@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Color vs BW film for printing BW



>You can do the same
>with filters in front of the lens, but filters slow down your shooting, and
>make you commit to one particular effect for each shot.

Obviously you shoot everything with a hi-speed Canon and hope that you will
get something, if anything! "slow down your shooting", please . . . most
competent photographers I know have an idea of what they are looking for,
including the contrast effect (frequently part of their style). The "one"
particular effect that you speak of is more often than not the one the
photographer was looking for, as opposed to an "artiste" hacking away at
something with every function photoshop has to offer, hoping to make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear.

Long live digital/electronic blather! No matter how sophisticated it
becomes, it will never make up for previsualization . . . and that also
applies to charcoal pencil drawings, oil painting, watercolour, writing, . .
. any creative pursuit.

Paul Aparycki

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