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Re: [OM] BW filters, was 1/2000 rarely used

Subject: Re: [OM] BW filters, was 1/2000 rarely used
From: "siddiq@xxxxxxx" <siddiq@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:31:21 -0800
On Dec 23, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> I've can't see that green does much of anything to skin tones... at
> least in ACR.  Using yellow, orange or red progressively blocks more  
> and
> more of the skylight except blue.  They progressively darken the sky,
> lighten the clouds and increase the contrast in B&W.  If you're  
> shooting
> people under incandescent there's probably not a whole lot of green to
> filter in the first place.  Color cast is going to be predominantly
> yellow-orange-red and those color filters will have a larger effect on
> brightness and contrast.
>
> Shoot in color and do your B&W conversion and filtration in PS.  That
> gives you many more options than with shooting film or applying
> in-camera filtration.  It makes it very easy to experiment since you  
> can
> redo the same image 1000 ways.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
<snip>

Yeah, was just playing around (and tend to go in-camera B/W when maxed  
out at ISO and mixed color
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