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Monochrome from Colour

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Over at Computerdarkroom Ian Lyons does a good job of walking through the process of creating to black and white using the channel mixer and some split toning. This is one if those times when black and white is not black and white.
I like the affect and the split toning could come in useful but [...]

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Digital Lens Filter

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

There are as many ways to convert a digital color image too black and white as there are fish in the sea. I want the deep contrast of black and white film but I am a digital boy.. Never have shot film in my life, would not know where to start and I am a [...]

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Welcome to OZ

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments

After my last post I started to think about the books I have read that embrace the digital darkroom and the power it represents.
One of the first books that came to mind was Welcome to OZ by Vincent Versace. This is not a book about creating images that are montages of multiple images; there are [...]

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