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[Ramiro Elena]

Here is one of the crewchiefs watching out for anyone trying to shoot at us as we pick up speed in the river bed to get the hell out of there as fast as we can:

Who by, if you don't mind me asking?

[Kav]

Who by, if you don't mind me asking?

In short: Taliban/Al Qaeda

This FOB has been known to be troublesome, and our helicopters have been shot at landing and leaving there.

[Jay Decker]

Sam
Rolleiflex 2.8C Xenotar
Fuji PRO 160S

[Scott Schroeder]

Scott, these are lovely tones, as always.
Do you use PS or a third-party software for toning?
I can't seem to match the richness in your photos using Nik's software.

Hi Ari. I do it in PS using luminosity masks to "embed" the tone throughout the tonal range.
What's a luminosity mask? http://goodlight.us/writing/videos/videos-1.html

I only use "lights" and "darks" to do this. This is easy enough to do. Just go to 'channels' grab the RGB channel and take it down to the 'selection' circle thing. Create a new 'solid layer' with this mask, choose a color (I like 7D6A2B),change the layer to 'soft light' and opacity to 75%.
To do the darks, you use the rgb channel, select, then make it the inverse selection. Create a new solid layer, choose a color, change layer to soft light, and opacity to 50%
So you can play with the color, the opacity, etc.

For a bump in microcontrast, I will also use the same masks and create brightness/contrast layers. For the lights I bump the contrast +10 and the darks +5. Sometimes I bump it again depending on the image and the highlights/shadows. Then you can up or down that contrast level.

on page 663 of this thread you had a nice image of your daughter. I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of toning it so you could see it on one of your own photographs.

[Tin Can]

Cool Scoot, I was not a fan of 'sepia' but the way this image now looks is so much better for me. ymmv OP, perhaps not for everyone.

I find the toned image much easier on my eyes. less glare and sharp contrast.

I gotta try this!

Thanks!

Hi Ari. I do it in PS using luminosity masks to "embed" the tone throughout the tonal range.
What's a luminosity mask? http://goodlight.us/writing/videos/videos-1.html

I only use "lights" and "darks" to do this. This is easy enough to do. Just go to 'channels' grab the RGB channel and take it down to the 'selection' circle thing. Create a new 'solid layer' with this mask, choose a color (I like 7D6A2B),change the layer to 'soft light' and opacity to 75%.
To do the darks, you use the rgb channel, select, then make it the inverse selection. Create a new solid layer, choose a color, change layer to soft light, and opacity to 50%
So you can play with the color, the opacity, etc.

For a bump in microcontrast, I will also use the same masks and create brightness/contrast layers. For the lights I bump the contrast +10 and the darks +5. Sometimes I bump it again depending on the image and the highlights/shadows. Then you can up or down that contrast level.

on page 663 of this thread you had a nice image of your daughter. I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of toning it so you could see it on one of your own photographs.

[Scott Schroeder]

Sure thing Randy. the tone can be blue, pink, whatever you like.....
I tend toward warm tones so this is a milder version of some of the sepia I've seen.
To play in the warm tones, the color I posted is a nice place to start and then fiddle with the blue channel. It has a big effect on the warmth.

[Ramiro Elena]

It sort of reminds me of Agfa Portriga Rapid.

[jcoldslabs]

It sort of reminds me of Agfa Portriga Rapid.

My favorite paper of all time. Bastards.

Jonathan

[Jay Decker]

Lauren
Pentacon Six TL
180/2.8 Sonnar
Fuji PRO 160S

[Scott Schroeder]

It sort of reminds me of Agfa Portriga Rapid.

I had never heard of it but based on what I read I sure would like to have some.....
I still use cadmium in my collodion... ;-)
Anyway, I did find something by jock sturges
http://www.tpaulfineart.com/index.ph...y/jock_sturges

His version:


Applying my toning without the contrast (although the masks to create some):


Sorry, I think those are going to be BIG...

Looks like his (or the scan) has a bit more magenta but I do like the semblance. Very interesting observation Ramiro.

I've been trying to get a similar look in the darkroom but it's tough. If it was available, I'd be jumping on that paper...