I would think the muddiness is a function of the conversion. There are many conversion methods that work well. If you're working in PhotoShop, try using the channel mixer for a start. Just cick on monochrome and work with the three channels to get a pleasing effect. Click on the monochrome button near the bottom of the channel mixer window. Use a lot of the red channel. For many shots, at least 90% or so. Set the constant to near zero or just a bit below. Then dial in just a bit of green and blue. Work each slider independently in those approximate ranges until you get a pleasing effect. What color filter did you use? Are you shooting digital? Paul On Jul 8, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Russell Kerstetter wrote:
> Thank you for the comments. > > Mark- I would like to see your "No Swimming", but I did not find it > on your site > > Paul Stenquist- I agree that this shot is muddy, as you say. And > since I am relatively new to this, you must pardon my silly questions. > Is the muddiness due to the B&W conversion that I use, or the color > filter I use on the B&W conversion, or is there something else that I > am missing? > > and wrt to my site and choice of colors... I have had a couple others > (not from PDML) comment on the blue on black, so that will be changing > at some point, but thank you for that comment as well. > > Russell > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
