Digital BW, The Print

Denis, For the price of alien skin's exposure 2, one could buy the whole
suite of imagenomic suite. IMHO, I think a much better deal but not having
played with it I can't say for sure.  

 

Eric Neilsen Photo

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Dallas, TX 75226

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
the_des_bois
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:35 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Creating grain

 

I would take a look at 
http://www.alienski <http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/> n.com/exposure/

I have this and it simulates most of the BW films of the past. You can
even control grain size and distribution in high/mid/low zones.

Denis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
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eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pglombick"
<glombick@...> wrote:
>
> I am trying a new direction in my photography and am wondering what 
> some of the better ways of creating digital "grain" are.
> 
> Here are my sepcifics:
> 
> shooting with D200, ususally ISO 100 or 200, mostly landscapes and urban
> PS CS2
> R2400 (K3, papers: VFA and Museo PR), R2200 (K7, Hahnemuehle Museum 
> Etching)
> 
> I used to shoot Iflord Delta 3200 a few years ago when I was using an 
> FM2 or a FM3a and liked the results. I have tried using the "add noise" 
> function in PS but am rather confused as to the differences between 
> normal and Gaussian and was unable to produce something I liked. I also 
> tried using the ISO 400 setting on a Fred Mirando BWPRO PS add-in I 
> have, but I want more grain than it can produce.
> 
> Any suggestions? I am unsure whether I should shoot at ISO 1600 in the 
> camera or create grain using other methods in Photoshop. Also, does one 
> sharpen before or after adding grain?
> 
> Thank you.
>

 



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