Digital BW, The Print

pglombick wrote:
> There was a comment earlier about throwing out the "garbage" blue 
> channel. While I may be in the minority here, I find the blue channel 
> often contains the element I am looking for to make certain images pop 
> or stand out. An example is a field of different lavender types that I 
> shot at a lavender farm this summer. Or one time I shot a portait of a 
> friend practicing yoga. As he had grey eyes and a fair complection, the 
> blue channel gave a dramamtic look to the portrait, while the green and 
> red channel version looked rather mundane. True, it usually contains 
> more noise, especially in the shadows, but careful noise treatment of 
> the blue channel can usually bring this to within acceptable levels.
> 

I find that the blue channel often has the greatest amount of shadow 
detail. It's also great for emphasising atmospheric haze & recession and 
for simulating antique film types. I think they must have been biased to 
blue light.

Howard