Digital BW, The Print

On 6/1/05 5:45 AM, "Stephen Kobrin" <kobrins@...> typed:

> Is there any point in working with the color temperature and tint
> sliders in Adobe Raw if the image is ultimately going to be converted
> to monochrome?  Intuitively, it seems that the color balance should
> affect the tonal range as it affects each of the R, B and G channels
> differently.  However, that is no more than an uneducated guess.
> 
> As an aside, I have just started experimenting with a new Canon Rebel
> XT with the EFS 17-85 lens.  While I have a lot to learn, it is clear
> that the image stabilization really does work well.  I have shot at the
> 85mm end of the zoom (135mm in 35mm terms) at a 30th with reasonable
> results.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
Well sure if you wanted to make it look like you shot it with a say green or
yellow-green filter which is often a good idea anyway (yellow-green restores
a true Panchromaticity to panchromatic films which really are not that
panchromatic after all) you just make it look like you shot it with that
filter.! The way it would look like you were looking at a scene though the
lens of an SLR with that filter on it or just holding the filter in front of
the subject up to your eye.
Then when you convert it to RGB its going to have that filters effect.
Foliage lightened. A nice tone to the sky. But the shadows next to the trees
and rocks not darkened like with a yellow.
I¹m sure that¹s half the reason they have that whole new part of Photoshop
in which emulates various real time real glass for real lenses on real
cameras filters with the Wratten names and everything.
And it¹s about time because  I always found it funny the extended metaphor
they were using with the glass round filters which would come up in the pop
up screen when you first opened Photoshop 2 or 3.

In a metaphysical and moral dilemma they put these filters under Image
-adjustments. Instead of under the Filters menu.

Lets see which filter should I use the YELLOW filter
    or MOSAIC TILES?!?!
The 81a warming filter
    or POINTILLIZE?!?
A RED filter 
    or PLASTIC WRAP?!?!
A tungsten correction cooling 80 filter
    or DE INTERLACE!?!

I wonder if I can special order a POINTILLIZE filter from B+W with a multi
coating?
And get it in CUBIST too!

Give me a 52mm ³Nude descending a Staircase² filter with a brass mount!

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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