MONO

Sometimes I despair when I see some mono renderings of digital files on here. Sorry.

So here is some food for thought: link

Thanks Ken, these are skills that have largely been lost and it's worth seeing how it was done.

It can be done digitally as well.

In a sense these skills are transferrable to digital. In PS you can see what you are doing rather than wait until the print has dried! A lot of people generally don't seem to understand what a great mono picture should look like. alt+cntrl+B just isn't enough.

I love mono. What I hate is when people think mono turns a c**p picture into art.

I had a far better eye for mono in the old days. I knew what filter/film combinations would do to a shot before I ever reached the darkroom.

But I think my memory has faded (like many of my prints)!

I try and create images that please me. I think I would hate to have someone else develop the final image. Back in the day I always used to do my own developing. It will always be part of the process to me, whether chemically or digitally.

I use the local adjustment brush, the digital equivalent of dodge and burn in Lightroom all the time. Not just for mono but for colour images.

These days you can local area dodge and burn not just exposure, but pretty much every parameter.


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Marvellous for making images 'pop'


I do have respect for those that did it in the darkroom though. No CTRL-Z



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Interesting, thanks for the post.
Definitely can use, maybe more relevant now than before with modern editing software. Good to have a solid grounding

So true,

I've never really properly explored the potential of Lightroom.

Thank Goodness for Ctrl Z and/or the History section in CS5

Doesn't detract from my enjoyment of images by the "Masters of the Darkroom Art"