Your techniques with contrast filters for B&W photography?

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I wasn't trying to perfect the picture but to show him where his problems are and how to correct them by using levels. Curves certainly could help fine tune afterwards. But I was not working with the original scan but his already blown file on the web.

At least I told him how to correct it from being too dark. Your comment post #48 was that he couldn't do anything, which was incorrect and no help whatsoever. Additionally, he made no mention of checking his histogram when he edited.
 

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Not just that. The whole thing could have done with curves. But levels could have done non-destructively as well. And no, the highlights weren't blown out on the web version.



That's not accurate.

Until this post, you gave him no suggestions how to brighten his dark picture other than this in #48:

"Just outputting to sRGB will do. The rest is beyond your control anyway, as you noted.
Btw, your images render a little dark on my (calibrated) monitor as well."
 

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Yes, a considerable part of my message to Alan was really offtopic in this thread. The ontopic part was more about digital editing than the use of filters for B&W, so I'd still consider that not really ontopic here and better suited for a separate thread in the Digital Editing section of the forum. It was really only tangentially related to the question this thread started out with, and I'm being generous at that.

If you want to discuss it further, please feel free to open a thread about it here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/forums/digital-image-editing.362/
 

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Thanks. The two aspects should really be divided. It's difficult enough just to get people to understand what contrast filters are really for, and how to properly use them, without going off on a whole other wild goose chase only peripherally related, and only to applicable to post-film digital workflow.
 
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Was that photo taken on Dartmoor?
 
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