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<blockquote data-quote="Luckypenguin" data-source="post: 79647" data-attributes="member: 560">Can I play devil's advocate, agree with Luke, and say that isn't the first image an example of what B&amp;W film should look like? I know literally nothing about developing and processing film though, so take that for what it's worth. The B&amp;W treatment really seems to suit the image shown here.Just a query, though. When you say that you have adjusted contrast , do you just mean the standard &quot;push the histogram to the sides&quot; contrast? I don't even know if I'm doing it wrong or right but these days I only ever adjust contrast through curve manipulation to get a nice progression towards both extremes of exposure. Recently I've revisited a few older images that I processed 18 months to 2 years ago where I did use just the contrast adjuster and felt obligated to process them again. I feel that I was way too heavy-handed with contrast the first time around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luckypenguin, post: 79647, member: 560"] Can I play devil's advocate, agree with Luke, and say that isn't the first image an example of what B&W film should look like? I know literally nothing about developing and processing film though, so take that for what it's worth. The B&W treatment really seems to suit the image shown here. Just a query, though. When you say that you have adjusted contrast , do you just mean the standard "push the histogram to the sides" contrast? I don't even know if I'm doing it wrong or right but these days I only ever adjust contrast through curve manipulation to get a nice progression towards both extremes of exposure. Recently I've revisited a few older images that I processed 18 months to 2 years ago where I did use just the contrast adjuster and felt obligated to process them again. I feel that I was way too heavy-handed with contrast the first time around. [/QUOTE]

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