AG:
Wouldn't Photoshop CS with a Wacom tablet allow one to indicate specific
areas of a photo with Wacom pen and then, with the layer method, apply
different effects at will until you find what gives you the desired effect?
I don't have the knowledge or skill to know if adjustable bulb temp and
time effects are available... but someone may know. They are saying the
Epson 2400 printer can be dedicated ( for ink saving purposes ) to BW only
and some software is there to give very good approximation to BW developed
by traditional methods.
As Ever,
Orin
E) orink@ t6b.com
near Chicago
----- Original Message -----
From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 17:26
Subject: [OM] Re: End of the world as we know it
>> As I wrote the day before yesterday in another message-thread
>> on HDR, you should give the "LightZone" application a test-
>> drive. I'm just starting to get into it myself, and it's
>> quite intriguing. It really does sorta remind me of the time
>> I used to spend in the darkroom,
>> without all those nasty chems, of course:
>
> I've been doing some "HDR" stuff in The Gimp and PWP. Obviously
> not with all the fancy slider stuff, but it gets you mostly
> there. My biggest problem with what I've seen, though, is the
> inadvertant squashing of the mid-tones. However, my guess is
> that it has to do with idiotic use and not the program itself.
>
> I've built a couple of brushes in The Gimp that give me some of
> that darkroom D/B capability but there is just something about
> sticking your hand under the enlarger for a couple of seconds
> that just is missing with the computer. Maybe the ultimate
> photo processing program would allow me to do live dodging and
> burning using a virtual enlarger--maybe using one of those
> copy-stand video cameras. Just place a test print under the
> camera and wave your hand over it during an "exposure". The
> camera would know where your hand or dodging/burning masks and
> tools are and would apply the changes dynamically to the image.
>
> AG
>
>
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