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Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has a method (Photoshop or Lightroom) for producing black and white the way Bill Brandt used to do it?
He apparently had very specific paper type he used and his prints had great tonality, albeit with blacks which had almost no detail. If you look at some of his pictures of the industrial north of Britain, particularly the famous picture of Halifax, you will see what I mean. It's almost like the old lith film. His skin tones, on the other hand, were usually very rich but occasionally he blew them out for effect.
Brandt's work has always fascinated me. His processing technique was very different from say Ansel Adams, being far less even handed and more dramatic. I'm guessing this was to do with the fact that Adams was primarily - though not exclusively - a landscape photographer, while Brandt spent more time photographing people.
http://www.beetlesandhuxley.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/stock-image-large/stock-images/HALIFAX-1937-1-C28135.jpg
http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/2582618/13-Gull_s_Nest__Isle_of_Skye_1947.jpg
Has anyone here tried this or make any suggestions about where to start? I realise that most of what he did was specific to each photograph but there are common traits too.
I should add that I have Perfect Effects 8 as well but I get a bit lost with that...
Any help gratefully received.
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