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From: "Siddiq" <iddibhai@xxxxxxx>
To: "olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 10:50 PM
Subject: [OM] mimicing r/o/y filters digitally post exposure for C41 b/w
> i've been wanting to try red filter with b/w chromo film, to get nice dark
> skies (hah! in so cali? not likely, but london, yes) contrasting the
> clouds, etc. now, i'm thinking i could just save myself a stop or two of
> light loss by shooting it straight, and then once the film is scanned,
> desaturate, and then play with the red level slider to get the same
affect.
> have i gone nutter or would this actually work? that way, i have an
> original exposure scan, and i can see what it would look like with red or
> yellow or orange filters on screen, keep it if it looks good, or just go
> back to the original, and not have to worry about loosing light at
exposure
> time. you londoners, if you're reading this, please tell me that you chaps
> have nice blue skies and puffy white clouds! for the sake of simplicity
and
> my like for nicely done b/w, it looks like i'll pack only kodak portra
> 400bw (i've decided on that vs xp2 super since i hear the former scans
> better).. if anyone has OM pics taken with 400bw, would love to see!
> thanks.
The Luminous Landscape has an article describing this exact technique.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/b-w_better.shtml
Andrew "frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/
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