Chris T wrote
<<SNIP>>
> This turned out to be a great lesson in
showing how to find a good image somewhere inside a rather ordinary
view. With the 40-150 lens it was a piece of cake to reproduce the basic
elements of the image I had for so long admired, with very little
cropping. Here it is. I should go back and show the general view so that
you can see all the distracting surrounds.
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10859 [1]
The narrow range
of colour together with the variety of shadows suggests that this would
be much better if done in B&W.
..............................
I find
that colour brings along quite enough challenges, along with contrast,
lighting levels, saturation and so on, so I'm not really interested in
getting into the specialised field of B&W at this point in time.
I
really don't understand what AG writes about with B&W, curves, shoulders
etc etc, not to mention the insider knowledge about different developers
and about different papers; except to say that the last B&W shots I had
done for me here years ago were far too hard and contrasty for my taste
- and I had no control over the process. Commercial B&W prints I had
done for me when a student in the UK in the 1960's were much more to my
liking; but I have no idea how to do that stuff digitally - and even
though I have rescued some enlargers from the tip I suspect that my
likelihood of getting a B&W darkroom set up and operational is so low as
to be negligible.
So, colour it will be for me - at present, anyway. I
feel I have some control over the process, even if the tools I use are
decried by several ....
They work for me.
Brian Swale
Links:
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[1] http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10859
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