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[tjcurtin1]

Amazing control of tonal ranges in those b&W shots (well, in the color shots too, but it is more striking in the b&W). Is that an enhancement made possible by digital photography? Did you have to do any post-production work? Working with film, it was always a huge challenge to maintain shadow detail and highlight detail like that at the same time. Nice work!

 

[stingx]

Amazing control of tonal ranges in those b&W shots (well, in the color shots too, but it is more striking in the b&W). Is that an enhancement made possible by digital photography? Did you have to do any post-production work? Working with film, it was always a huge challenge to maintain shadow detail and highlight detail like that at the same time. Nice work!

Thank you. Unless I deliberately shoot B&W on film, I always shoot color and RAW and do post-production B&W. I learned that lesson the hard way. I shot some very nice images on vacation but had the camera on monochrome and wished I had the color output. I use Topaz B&W Effects plugin and some additional tweaking in Lightroom.

 

[stingx]

iPhoneography + VSCO 3

This is known as the butt cheek sneak.