tri-x look

nobbylon

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What's the easiest program for turning colour neg scans and digital cam files into tri-x look b&w's. I've just taken a look at silveroxide and thought that was pretty good. Any user comments on it or other solutions? I do shoot the odd roll of tri-x but usually have colour neg or my d70 in the bag. thx j
 
There's nothing which can do that in reality, it is just pulling your leg. If one could convert a digital file or a colour transparency into a B&W shot with excellent tonality, why would all these nuts, me including, be shooting B&W negatives instead? I use 11 film cameras, if a digital device existed that could produce results par to a well processed Tri-X shot, I'd put them on the bay right away... Same for colour neg film - who would care about all the filters, and scanning without the digital ICE any more, if you could make a perfect 13 stop dr colour shot and scan it easily and desaturate to your liking...
 
Kubota's actions for photoshop
http://www.kubotaimagetools.com/

Photoshop Plugins

Digital Film Tools
http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/index2.htm

The Image Factory
http://www.theimagingfactory.com/

nik Multimedia color efex pro
http://www.nikmultimedia.com/

Convert to BW PRO
http://www.theimagingfactory.com/data/pages/home.htm

links to top black and white plugin software
http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/bwplugins.html


I have all of the above and tend to use the KUBOTA ACTIONS and DIGITAL FILM TOOLS the most often
 
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I've had pretty good success with Exposure. See the samples above.
 
For the Tri-X look, how about something novel, actually shooting with Tri-x.

There is the easy route and the complex route and it never ceases to amaze me that people choose the complex route every time.
 
@fdigital
It is evident you don't speak italian, haha ;-)
@rich815
I have a nice print of this shot and the blotches have been eliminated through an additional "Stronzata" action...
 
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I feel like a bit of a wet rag, but if there's sarcasm in that post I'm not detecting it. If not, thats a great digital bw conversion.....
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Really? You think the facial skin tone is acceptable for fine B&W? Do you not see the banding in the sweater? Hmmm, I'll view it on my monitor at work and see if it's still there....
 
rich815 said:
Really? You think the facial skin tone is acceptable for fine B&W? Do you not see the banding in the sweater? Hmmm, I'll view it on my monitor at work and see if it's still there....
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Aside from the weird tones on the face, banding on the sweater and the noise/grain that looks like noise reduction + sharpening, the rest is pretty good.
 
Uncle Bill said:
For the Tri-X look, how about something novel, actually shooting with Tri-x.

There is the easy route and the complex route and it never ceases to amaze me that people choose the complex route every time.
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That's so true Bill!
 
So, which is way is truly "easier?" :angel: I'm quite fond of "Exposure" and it can work very well. Really not difficult, just press a few buttons and then adjust levels to taste. ;)

Dont' know if anybody remembers the old Memorex audio tape ads - "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" :D

Here you go, one is a digital file converted using "Exposure" and the other is a scanned tri-x negative.

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Go ahead, give it your best shot :D

My point is really not to get into a "which is better" type debate, only to point out that there are many ways to achieve a certain "look and feel"
 
Informed guess - the second one is D2X.

(I cheated but already had a hint as the first has a bit of a black line on the bottom that appears to be from a scan. Hard to distinguish them on image characteristics.)
 
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