Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/12

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Subject: [Leica] B&W Conversion options
From: rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)
Date: Fri May 12 07:15:13 2006

Nathan -

Thanks for sure for your well-reasoned and perceptive take on this  
issue.  The 16 bit thing seems important, and I wonder if this version  
deals with separate gamma curves for each channel... that's the level  
of tweakiness that I don't mind leaving to others.

Bob Palmieri

Nathan Wajsman wrote the following

Bob,

I think that in the case of these particular pictures, it is a tough
choice since the colorful flags are clearly an important element of the
scene, so I am not sure I would get rid of the color here. I shot some
pictures of partying FC Sevilla fans in Eindhoven on Wednesday afternoon
(before the UEFA Cup final against Middelsborough from England, which
was played at Philips Stadium on Wednesday night). The scene was very
colorful, with the colors, pained faces, flags etc., and I will
definitely keep those in color.

But in general, I do convert a fair number of images to B&W, and my
preferred tool is the conversion tool sold by Fred Miranda. It works in
16-bit mode, and while at the end of the day it is indeed just an artful
application of existing Photoshop functionality, that application is so
far beyond my Photoshop skills (if I had to do it manually) that it is
well worth the $30 or whatever I paid for it.

Nathan

bob palmieri wrote:
> Folks -
>
> Shot some shots of the immigration rally here in Chicago last week;
> here's a coupla samples:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/immigration-rally-05-06/ 
> check_yourself_65
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/immigration-rally-05-06/none_illegal_63
>
> Liked the color thing, but decided to try to convert to B&W.

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