Digital Black and White.

First image from my new-to-me M246, and one of the first processed with a new-to-me application - Lightroom. I’m severely out of practice and need to both learn LR for the first time and relearn post processing in general, I’ve been lazy for years just using Apple Photos. This doesn’t look good to me at all, I’ll probably keep revisiting this DNG as I learn more.

Incoming Storm - M246, 35mm Summicron ASPH

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Ken Ford said:
First image from my new-to-me M246, and one of the first processed with a new-to-me application - Lightroom. I’m severely out of practice and need to both learn LR for the first time and relearn post processing in general, I’ve been lazy for years just using Apple Photos. This doesn’t look good to me at all, I’ll probably keep revisiting this DNG as I learn more.

Incoming Storm - M246, 35mm Summicron ASPH

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It looks pretty good to me. What do you think is wrong with it?

I'm mostly in the Apple Photos/minimal post-processing (i.e., lazy) camp myself.
 
Ken Ford said:
First image from my new-to-me M246, and one of the first processed with a new-to-me application - Lightroom. I’m severely out of practice and need to both learn LR for the first time and relearn post processing in general, I’ve been lazy for years just using Apple Photos. This doesn’t look good to me at all, I’ll probably keep revisiting this DNG as I learn more.

Incoming Storm - M246, 35mm Summicron ASPH

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It’s a nice scene.

The sensor really needs cleaning, and the dots are big, like I’ve seen when I had oil on my sensor. When you process the photo the sensor dots will also stand out more.

If you make a series of layers and adjust the shadows, mids and highlights, you can preserve the detail and perception of sharpness but place the tones where you want them, and, most importantly, separate the near tones. The raw files from the Monochroms are largely calibrated to capture the exposure range of the sensor, but they mostly look nothing like a good photo, especially in even light like this.

Keep at it, and keep showing. We’re all learning all the time.

Edit: and any lack of sharpness is just about how you downsize and convert to jpg. If you need to compensate with some sharpening, just do it.
 
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Freakscene said:
It’s a nice scene.

The sensor really needs cleaning, and the dots are big, like I’ve seen when I had oil on my sensor. When you process the photo the sensor dots will also stand out more.

If you make a series of layers and adjust the shadows, mids and highlights, you can preserve the detail and perception of sharpness but place the tones where you want them, and, most importantly, separate the near tones. The raw files from the Monochroms are largely calibrated to capture the exposure range of the sensor, but they mostly look nothing like a good photo, especially in even light like this.

Keep at it, and keep showing. We’re all learning all the time.

Edit: and any lack of sharpness is just about how you downsize and convert to jpg. If you need to compensate with some sharpening, just do it.
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Thank you - I’m actually looking around for classes, either online or in person. I’ve always been a minimum post person only due to lack of knowledge.

I’m going to grab the rocket blower and see if I can clean up the sensor any.
 
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