Photo by Bob Baikauskas
Lincoln Hills
Photography Club
Ron Parker Black & White printing presentation is highlight of July 22nd Print SIG.
Ron Parker presented his approach to converting color images to black and white. He stressed the need to control mid-tone contrast in an image in order to significantly improve image detail and enhance print quality. He presented several examples of his work to dramatically illustrate the effectiveness of his methods. The presentation was highly informative and was well received by the group. Pictured (l. to r.) are Dale Petersen, Gary Stephens and Gary Slone.
Presented below... a few of the prints displayed at the July 22nd SIG
San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church
Taos, New Mexico
by
Fred Buhler
Archival Pigment
Print Size: 10" x 13"
Paper: Red River 66 lb Polar Pearl Metallic
Epson K3 Archival Ink
Printer: Epson Stylus Pro 3800
Camera: Tripod-mounted Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 17-40M f4L, Focal Length 28mm
Shutter Priority, Shutter speed: 1/250, f/10, ISO 100
"The image was initially a color photo. I processed it in Lightroom and then converted it to black and white using Silver Efex Pro II. In Photoshop, I applied a Gaussian blur for the background and then used an overlay from the Adobe Paper Pro plug-in." If you look closely at the sky above the church you will see the subtle effect of the overlay.
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Fred Buhler
Website:
Fred has posted some of his photos on the Photography Group's Website.
You can see them
Yellowstone Falls Mist
by
Allen Adler
Archival Pigment
Print Size: 10" x 14"
Paper: Epson Premium Semi-gloss
Epson K3 Archival Ink
Printer: Epson Stylus Pro 3000
Camera: Tripod-mounted Canon 5D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS Zoom Lens @ 60mm
Shutter Speed 1/90, f/11, ISO 400
Aperture Priority, B+W Polarizing Filter
"I took the photo on September 14, 2014 at about 10:00AM. Any earlier and the falls would have been too much in shadow."
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Print Special Interest Group... what it's all about.
"If it's not on paper it's not a photograph!!"
Those might be fighting words for some of our members, but there are those among us that believe in the sentiment. The Print SIG is for them.
The Print Special Interest Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month in the Orchard Creek Lodge Multi-purpose Room, from 10:30am to 11:30am, immediately after the Round Table SIG.
The SIG is dedicated to advancing the art of putting images on paper. Members are encouraged to present their photographs for discussion and evaluation. We also explore printing techniques, printing papers, matting and framing techniques and the software tools used to prepare our images for printing.
While many of our members use their own desktop printers to print their images, others use the services of third-party printing solutions such as Costco, Bay Photo, Aspen Creek and others.
If you want to learn about printing, preparing your images for third-party services, or improving your printing techniques and methods, this it the place to get the information you need.
If you want to learn more about the group, stop by and check out one of our meetings.
Bob Baikauskas
Print SIG Coordinator
