Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, you'll have to figure out what you like in the B&W film first. e.g. think of digital image as a specific brand of film. In your case, an Olympus E-System 4-th-Gen (or whatever it is) vario-ISO film. Now look at some of the film images that you like - do you like the grain? The contrast? The tone? Take one of your favoriate digital image and now use photoshop or you favorite editor or one of the film simulation plugins and tweak it until you get the same feel. It may take quite a bit of work and may be you just won't be able to get something matching what you like, but doing that should teach you quite a bit. Good luck! On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@lighttube.net>wrote: > I have been looking at various ways to show digital images as B&W. Many of > the images I see on the LUG gallery come close to film images, but I have > not been getting to that point. This was made with my E-510 and Elmarit-R > 28/2.8 as a RAW image and converted to B&W, then sepia, in Elements 6.0. I > know that there are specialty converters available, but have not tried them > as yet. If anyone has suggestions, please comment. > > One local problem is the haze level and lack of blue sky for contrast. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Modern+Services.tif.html > > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com