Digital Photography and Computers

[scubert]

To pick up where I left off on the B&W pix thread. This is one of the coolest things about digital over film. You can shoot in color all day, and pick out the stuff that you want in B&W. This is much more difficult to do with film. Making a B&W print from a color negative generally leads to very muddy, low contrast prints. It's also worlds easier to give the contrast a little 'push' with the variations tool in Photoshop. Rather than having to expose the print for longer and goof with various burn and dodge techniques, you can simply select the area you need and boost or reduce the highs or lows. This works very well with color too.

On a side note, computer darkrooms pollute a WHOLE lot less than real darkrooms. Pictures don't appear magically, they require LOTS of chemicals that you don't necessarily want absorbed into your skin, or in your drinking water either