Hans
Thank you for the info. and the link. It was quite helpful.
Your last statement should be amplified though. Politicians in this
country are typically nothing more than lawyers who couldn't or wouldn't
make it in private practice. Why do you think there are so many laws
overturned by the Supreme Court every year? They make laws that *any
moron* could see will *never* pass a Constitutional challenge.
--
Jim - A Libertarian by philosophy, not party affiliation.
Hans van Veluwen wrote:
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>
> Photography? Phot*graphy??? Are you sure you're on the right mailing list?
> It's only cars and politics here, you know! ;)
>
> Ok, ok, you're apologized for now, but don't let it happen again! ;) ;) ;)
>
> One of the easy modern ways to start learning pre-visualizing how things
> look in B&W is to load your favourite digitized images in a photo editing
> program, and convert it to 256 grayscale. Then start to play with the
> brightness and contrast adjustments.
>
> B&W photography is all about shapes, contrast, lighting,
> politics & cars [<= obl. OM content]. ;) ;)
>
> There are many ways to influence contrast; some of them are made in the
> darkroom but even without having one you have a selection of film and
> filters.
>
> Filters are very important in B&W photography; the most frequently used are
> yellow and orange, available in different densities.
> Here's a primer in B&W filters:
> http://www.acecam.com/magazine/filters-faq.html
>
> The main thing to achieve is a nice contrast between your subjects and the
> background. What B&W filters do is to make subjects of their own color
> lighter, and of the opposite color darker. A green filter for instance will
> make leafs very light, a red filter will make skies very dark.
>
> Ok, enough with this boring B&W primer, back to our favourite subject:
> politics. Whoever wins the election of the president of the United States,
> he will be a moron.
>
> hnz
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