Best Street & Astrophotography Lens

norman shearer wrote:

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.

Hi Norman,

thanks for sharing these details. You flick set is excellent. I have a few additional questions:

what do you mean with tone ?

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.

Which sliders do you usually adjust or any specific presets  as starting point for the above posted pictures?

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.

I was not aware the sharpening to the output medium is important .

Also does not flick does this job if you upload full resolution

thanks again!

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/