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I'm on a switch weekend between surgical services, so I was idly thinking about buying a #25 filter to try to drop out sky color in landscape photos. This was instigated by a visit Joanne and I made to an Ansel Adams exhibit over at the Peabody Essex Museum. I've avoided trying to duplicate the effect of a #25 filter in Lightroom (by dropping out some green, most blue, and all of purple in the BW adjustment menu) largely because the previews looked so shitty. Then I realized by clicking around the internet that this was probably an artifact of the Lightroom preview system (and the application of these changes to a low res JPEG). Export of the images from RAW to JPEG confirmed this -- the shittiness largely went away. So I went crazy on it and tried applying the technique to some of the old Bryce Canyon photos from a few posts back -- here are the results. I was pretty happy, or at least happy enough that I didn't spend $125 on a #25 filter. Of course, trying to ignore the grain and posterization in the preview is going to be annoying... but for that kind of money I think I can stomach it.
