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Subject: [Leica] Experimenting B&W in Lightroom
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:18:10 +0100
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Had some massive vignetting so as you get a better "focus" on the  
leaves?
Also, punch up the black slider a bit and increase the slider just  
above by one or two clicks to add crispness
Of course YMMV

Philippe

Le 22 d?c. 11 ? 09:40, Ali Yazdi a ?crit :

> I tried with curve to get more black and whites. here is the result:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/platoali/Street/Un-4.jpg.html
>
> I think it is much better now, the older one  was too dark.
>
> Thanks you very much
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Leonard Taupier <len-1 at comcast.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ali,
>>
>> Both the color and b&w photos have very low dynamic range. If you  
>> look at
>> the color photo levels histogram you'll see that everything is  
>> bunched in
>> the middle, no blacks or whites. If you adjust the levels on both  
>> sides so
>> the curve is right at the edge the photo will look much better.  
>> Then see
>> how it looks on your monitor.
>>
>> Your b&w photo is a little different. Still low dynamic range but the
>> curve is all the way to the left with most of the whites missing.  
>> This is
>> what Richard mentioned on the grays. Bring the right side to the  
>> end and
>> that photo will really snap.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Len
>>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Ali Yazdi wrote:
>>
>>> Experimenting with lightroom and black and white conversions. Any
>>> suggestion?
>>>
>>> B&W exported from Lightroom:
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/platoali/Street/Un-2.jpg.html.
>>>
>>> The original color one :
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/platoali/Street/Un+color.jpg.html
>>>
>>>
>>> I have also a problem with Color. The color that is shown in DMR  
>>> LCD is
>>> much  much more beautiful  than when I open them in Lightroom or any
>> other
>>> Software.
>>>
>>> Bests
>>> Ali
>>>
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