Here is Martin’s presentation from Thursday on Black and White photography:
B&W Digital Photography: The How’s and Why’s from Martin Taylor on Vimeo.
- The free channel mixer effect I mentioned can be downloaded here: http://hiddenelements.com/
- The Virtual Photographer plugin can be found here: http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
If you want to see just the conversion methods, skip forward to minute 12. If you want to be able to see more detail of the screencasts (i.e. the exact menus I’m navigating to etc.) click the Vimeo link bottom right of the video to open the host’s site, then watch full screen by clicking the icon bottom right of that video.
Having the whole presentation is terrific. However, I do not want to have to spend an hour to get to the references to the free plug-ins. Can’t they be posted somehow as a separate item?
Burr, I did edit it down to 30 minutes but I have now added the links to the post above.
Here are two more sites with free presets for ACR & Lightroom. Life in Digital Film specializes in presets that simulate different film stocks, many black and white.
http://www.lifeindigitalfilm.com/
http://www.presetsheaven.com/
thanks for your response, Martin. I’ve looked at both websites. The Virtual Photographer is only for Windows based systems. As a Mac user that leaves me out.
The channel mixer effect is for both Mac and PC. However, for a non-techie like me, it is impossible to make the download work. User names and passwords are required that I haven’t a clue what they are. If anyone can download this for Mac, I be interested to know how they did it. Incidentally, to download one must have Internet Explorer or Firefox as a browser. Safarai is NOT supported. Using Firefox I could not make things work.
Martin;
Great job! I shall use one or more of your methods for the BW presentation on the 4th (if I’m still in town) rather than the de-saturate method. It’s nice to have the edited version of the presentation and get right to the meat of it. My frau couldn’t come the other night so this is great for her. Thanks again.
Garrett
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