phil jern photos

Indiana USA

Filters can help or hinder you. In the old days, when we shot black and white film, a deep yellow filter and some creative underexposure was needed to blacken the sky. These days, it’s easy. In this case, I knew I was going black and white when I shot it, and exposed to get enough detail and contrast in the boards, and enough blue in the sky to use the sliders in the CS3 Black and White layer control to darken the sky and punch up the contrast in the barn.