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LX7 Images

Howard

New member
Maggie,

I was going through the advanced LX7 manual and was wondering about how you achieve such beautiful B&W's. Are you shooting B&W JPG's directly from the camera than doing PP? Or are you shooting raw or JPG and converting to B&W when you PP? Or do you have another method that you are willing to share with me?
 

Maggie O

Active member
Thanks for the compliments, Howard!

I'm shooting RAW and doing my conversions in Aperture, using Silver Efex Pro 2 as a plug-in. I make liberal use of things like control points and sliders and will tweak just about anything that I think needs tweaking for any given image. That said, I've posted a couple of OOC B&W shots that I tweaked in Aperture, too.

I'll tell you what I told my students at MCAD, back in the days of 35mm film and darkrooms, and I think it still holds- black & white prints (or JPEGS) look best when there is actually some genuine black in them. You're paying for silver, so USE IT! ;) I think the smae goes for digital, only now we don't have to pay for silver, only pixels.
 

Howard

New member
I purchased on the outstanding results that you get with Silver Efex Pro 2, I purchase a copy and am not going home to load it. Like you I take raw photos and cannot wait to see by B&W results when I become proficient in Silver Efex Pro 2. Thank you for sharing some of your techniques with me. I wonder whether the Silver Efex Pro 2 will work with my IR photos???
 

Howard

New member
I am having difficulty getting Silver Efex Pro 2 working - I am hoping tech support will get back to me. I converted a few recent photos to B&W.




 

Howard

New member
Maggie,
In my last post, I intended to, but failed to comment how much I liked your color photos. I like the colors, the composition, the expression on the models face. All the color photos were enjoyable to view.
 
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