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Best Street & Astrophotography Lens

Started Jun 21, 2016 | Discussions thread
norman shearer Senior Member • Posts: 1,418
Re: Best Street & Astrophotography Lens
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stf1x wrote:

the BWs photos are nice, lots of mid tones, how do you convert them to BW, can you share the details of your worklow ? Thanks !

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

Just a combination of Adobe Photoshop cc and Nik Collection. Crop and straighten in ACR and adjust contrast/tones. I also tend to deliberately under-expose when shooting in order to allow me to keep the highlights if I feel they add to the shot. Import to photoshop and then Silver Effex Pro. Then I usually run it through Color Effex Pro and apply one of their film effects and maybe a vignette filter. If the image looks a bit coarse I might also soften it down with a glamour filter - though recently I'm liking a sunlight filter that does similar but with more control. Resize to fit my monitor (1920x1200). Sharpen with Sharpener Pro (output sharpening). All this done in Adobe RGB 16 bit so I then convert to sRGB 8 bit and save as a jpg.

Nik Collection is currently now free from the above link. It works as a plug-in for photoshop and with it you can use layers to paint in the effects, or have them apply to the whole image. I'm not sure what other programs you can use with it.

Check out my flickr site for more street etc

https://www.flickr.com/photos/normanjshearer/

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