Digital BW, The Print

My camera is a Nikon D70 converted by LifePixel (normal conversion).

Actually, if you look at some of Adam's works, you see very bright 
and white foliage and very drak black skies - very much like an IR 
image.

You're right about choice of subject....but that's not just an IR 
issue. Any landscape where it's not just a wide field all-inclusive 
shot but you're trying to emphasive a particular subject amidst 
other competing elements has this challenge.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Weaver" 
<garww@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I've only a can of Kodak IR under my belt and tried unmodified 
digital IR.
> 
> IR is all over the place, so you don't have the same options as 
with normal films.
> 
> Selective focus with this factor and typical wide FOV is problem 
prone. To make it effective I think you have to choose the subject 
placement carefully and maybe consider morning shooting when only 
some things have warmed-up.
> 
> I can't relate ansel stuff to IR stuff in any which way.
> 
> And I really don't know about the digital end - you don't indicate 
what wavelength your sensor can resolve.
> 
> gar
> 
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> On 3/7/08 at 3:43 AM markleewebb wrote:
> 
> >But is it done - and done well- with b&w landscapes? 
> >
> >Here is why I ask: for landscapes, folks like Ansel Adams taught 
that 
> >aperture is the first concern. He and other great landscape 
artists 
> >were very concerned about sharpness and capturing a lot of 
detail. He 
> >even founded Group f.64 - guess why ! He felt that photography 
should 
> >take advantage of the nature of the medium and make photographs 
with 
> >as much depth of field as possible. But in some scenes it's hard 
to 
> >emphasize a particular tree or group of natural elements because 
> >they're not well seperated from other distracting elements around 
> >them. That's why I was asking.
> >
> >If someone has some good examples and web sites with samples they 
> >could point me to where the photographer used selective DOF IN A 
> >LANDSCAPE  - and did it with SUCCESS :) that would help me study 
other 
> >works and gain some perspective on an alternative technique that 
may 
> >serve me well. 
> >
> >Thanks.                            
> >
> >
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Watson 
> ><bwyg@> wrote:
> >>
> >> markleewebb wrote:
> >> > Question - for shots like this where you are stuck with a 
> >background 
> >> > of other trees and you have other trees to right and to left 
and 
> >> > sometimes in foreground - can you ever use DOF to emphasize 
your 
> >main 
> >> > subject? Nail focus on main subject but go very soft using 
DOF on, 
> >> > say, the background? Is this ever done with landscapes?
> >> >   
> >> Of course it's "done." Selective focus is just another tool to 
use 
> >in 
> >> expressing one's vision.
> >> --
> >> Bruce Watson
> >>
> >
> >
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