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18-10-10, 08:17 PM
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Re: Daft Outtakes

Hi Alison, yeah we don't get much of that sort of action here in the city suburbs...although my neighbour a couple of doors away seems to think his garden is more secluded than it really is! My other half has seen more than she expected on a couple of occasions!

Pictures look a million timnes better to me with those more natural colours. They could be tweaked a bit, but that second one before just looked way off on the processing.

Loxley do a good job, expensive but good. You may want to run a test set through DCSL or even Asda. The latter use better papers than you may expect and produce some good results once you set your calibration up suitably, and in some tests, DSCL seems to come out within a whisker of Loxley on quality. Might help the profit margins!

I have just sent some large B&W to DSCL to see what they come out like. Ilford prices are something like 25x the price!
Kit 1
Nikon D700
Nikon 28-70 f2.8 ED AF-S (The Beast)
Nikon 80-200mm f2.8
Tamron 24-135 SP
Nikon 300mm f4
Nikon 70-300mm VR
Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 (DX)
Nikon 28-105mm (great walkaround on D700!)
Lensbaby Composer
Nikon 20-35mm f2.8
Nikon SB800
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Nikon D300
Nikon 20mm f2.8
Nikon 24mm f2.8
Nikon 28mm f2.8
Nikon 35mm f2
Nikon 50mm f1.4
Nikon 85mm f1.8
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18-10-10, 10:25 PM
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Re: Daft Outtakes

Thanks for posting larger shots. It would be easier to work with RAW files of course - but I rather like my little edits - hope you like them - if you don't, do say and I'll take them down! I just love playing with photoshop these days! Shame I cropped out the other lady - as I thought her face was full of character... but I just couldn't seem to work her into the photo!









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Nikon D800
Nikkor 50mm f1.4
Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8
Nikkor 105 mm f2.8 macro
Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8
Sigma 50-500mm F4-6.3 EX DG HSM
Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM
Nikon 70-300mm AF f/4-5.6G
Nikon 50mm f1.8
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Nikon D700
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19-10-10, 01:02 PM
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Re: Daft Outtakes

I was thinking mono for these too.
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19-10-10, 07:56 PM
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Re: Daft Outtakes

Now why didn't I think of mono?

Nice PP Zoundz, really like the conversions. If you don't mind sharing your secret, what's the recipe? Did it take long? (looks like it did, they're quality ). I try all the presets in channel mixer and B + W layers but usually end up resorting to either calculations or quad toning to get a decent result.


     
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19-10-10, 08:38 PM
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Re: Daft Outtakes

I use the butterscotch B&W action from here: http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/ and then tweak and add noise to my tastes!

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Nikon D800
Nikkor 50mm f1.4
Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8
Nikkor 105 mm f2.8 macro
Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8
Sigma 50-500mm F4-6.3 EX DG HSM
Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM
Nikon 70-300mm AF f/4-5.6G
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