Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's not like there are few black and white shots in your website. There are zero! Kinda interesting. ! On 1/9/13 8:06 PM, "Charbonneau Pierre" <charbonneaup at videotron.ca> wrote: > Thank you Bob and all, > > for the kind comments. > > To answer your question about this B&W conversion so to speak, actually I > have been shooting and printing B&W for about 40 years. I started doing the > darkroom at the age of 13.... > > If my photo business has been mostly shooting color E-6 slide films for my > clients, all my personal work has been shot in b&w, except for some > Kodachrome > of my daughter's young life. I have maintained a nice darkroom up to 3 > years > ago. The purchase of the M9 and of a big Epson printer killed it. > > As for processing the Monochrom files, these are indeed flat, thank > goodness. > I use Lightroom for exposure and contrast adjustment, dust spotting,and > cataloging. Then for some images, I am just starting to use Silver Efex > Pro to > add to zip in certain cases. There are no standard procedure as there were > no > standard exposure of contrast grade in the darkroom work. > > And the fun is coming pretty much from there... > > > PIERRE CHARBONNEAU PHOTOGRAPHE > Photographie corporative, ?ditoriale et publicitaire > Montr?al > 514.481.2645 > www.charbonneauphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/