Pier 7 in Black and White
Voigtander Bessa R, 35mm f2.5, Fuji 400
posted by Warren T. at 6:51 AM
8 comments
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Voigtander Bessa R, 35mm f2.5, Fuji 400
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8 Comments:
Very nice Warren, I didn't see the two birds at first. Are you using anything special to convert to black and white?
Thanks Mike.
For photo editing, I use Photoshop 7. To convert to B&W, I use the Channel Mixer method, it gives better control than a simple desaturate.
--Warren
BTW, these images were edited from the original Walgreens scans. I find that they are barely sufficient for web use. For serious enlargements, I would use my Nikon Coolscan film scanner, but for web display, I'm too lazy to fire up the scanner. It only costs $5.19 to develop a 24 exp roll of color film and scan to CD (no prints).
--WT
Warren, very nice photo, looks like a bit of sharpening done in PS?
What size scans does your Walgreens give you? My local longs gives about ~1.5MB JPGs, while Costco typically gives me ~3MB JPG scans. The local Longs often has streaks on the negs. while Costco has an occasional bad scan (mixed up adjacent frames) or occasional scratching, but not often enough for me to stop going there, yet...
Ted, if you noticed the sharpening, then I exceeded the limits of post-processing the cheap Walgreens scan. :)
I only used very slight USM on the picture.
Aside from that, the CV 35mm Skopar is very sharp as it is...
--WT
i'll have to check later tonight on the Walgeens scan sizes, but I think it's smaller than 1MB, and this time, the clerk scanned them all in upside down (!).
--WT
Warren,
It's a great photo, I like how the fence posts are vertical, and the horizon is still level, great use of lines.
I'm conflicted on the use of sharpening/USM, but fortunately my tool (Picasa) almost always overdoes it.
The conflicting part is consciously using non-sharp lenses for portraits, especially of older people with wrinkles, but sharp DSLR type photos for flowers or landscapes. I need to get an "art-o-meter" ;)
Here's my reasoning for using USM (on almost all my photos): I only use USM to compensate for effects of the digitization process whether it's because of physics of the digicam sensor, or because of the film scanning process. I never use USM to increase the sharpness beyond the performance of the optics.
Even for portraits, I believe that it's okay to use razor sharp lenses (such as the 105mm f2.5 or 85mm f1.8 Nikkors). If the subject has blemishes or wrinkles or whatever, it's now possible to do some PS work to lessen them. During my recent portrait session with my friend's parents (both elderly), I was able to do some PS work to soften their wrinkles, whiten teeth, reduce age spots, etc. They now have 11x14's of themselves on their walls. I used my Tamron 24-135mm for the shoot. This lens is very sharp, and it really helps to have the eyes, glasses, clothing, etc., in sharp focus.
Soft focus portrait lenses are also good, they give a different overall look to the images. I sometimes use soft focus filters on my lenses for this purpose.
--Warren
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