If you will but allow yourself to play with raw files for a while you
will discover that you don't actually have to relearn what took you so
long to learn with film and filters... all you have to do is twist the
digital dials until you get an image that pleases you. Who cares
whether it matches a particular Wrattan filter or not? You can also
redo the same image in many different ways if you desire.
As I said earlier, turn off all the auto stuff that messes with color or
contrast and set the white balance to daylight. Then you'll have a
color shot which the Oly software will portray as an image having been
taken with color film in daylight. You can then choose either an
alternate white balance or adjust it to anything you'd like including
many options that can't be done with film or filters.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/26/2015 11:09 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
Life with my Fuji is much simpler :-) Or rather I simply don't care
about the complicated stuff, I find with colour images I can usually get
what I want using Lightroom and a few of its sliders and for BW Silver
efex pro 2 has always delivered an image pleasing to my eye with very
little fuss. I much prefer the act of taking photos to the work that is
post processing.
I found the same after I concluded that taking a good colour photo and then
post-processing with FilterSim and DxO Filmpack would result in good B&W photos,
but I would really like to take good B&W photos in the field with glass Wratten
filters so that I'm not surrendering what took years to learn with film.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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