Digital BW, The Print

Jacob, You said, "And if you burn dark shadows they will have a lot of noise
and not enough details." You do mean dodge here right? 

I would also caution user that use the luminance tool in Lightroom to darken
a color, specifically skies, that an increase in noise can be a problem. I
find that I have just one filter with me when I shoot digital; a polarizer.
The fill light to open shadows is the biggest culprit to un wanted noise. 

 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jacob
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 7:48 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: photos by Jean-Michel Berts

 

  



Thank you Tony. 
I do only digital. My current camera is Nikon D700 with Nikon 17-35mm lens.
I use bracketing shooting 3 times with 1 stop difference in exposure using
evaluative metering. I shoot in uncompressed raw.

I don't do any dodging and burning. If I get blown highlights or dark
shadows I will try to save the image first in Lightroom using 'recovery'
slider to save highlights and 'fill light' and 'blacks' to open shadows. I
may also use brush for local changes.

If it's still not enough I will take my bracketing shots to Photoshop and
join them as layers in one image using layer masks. This way I can use
highlights from underexposed image and shadows from overexposed image.
It gives much better quality than dodging and burning because if highlights
are blown there is just no information captured and dodging will give you
just gray area. And if you burn dark shadows they will have a lot of noise
and not enough details.

Tony, at this point there is no question you can get beautiful images with
digital camera, just make sure you have a good camera and lens and doing all
technical stuff right: exposure, focusing, ISO.

One more advise: shoot in color - not in black and white. Then in Lightroom
after converting to b&w you can use color sliders to adjust tones of
different colors. This is very powerful tool, you can make local changes
without selections. And this tool has incredible range because it works on
raw data. It makes it also unnecessary to use filters while shooting - you
can always darken the sky with blue slider (if it has enough blue in it) or
lighten the leaves with 'green' slider. 

So Tony, there are no secrets to good digital pictures, just hard work, we
have to learn to use strong points of digital and to find our way around
weak points, develop a workflow specific to our needs.

I hope this helps. If you have more questions please contact me either on
the group or directly.

Jacob Mann
http://www.photo3da <http://www.photo3dart.com> rt.com




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