kiro

<p>I guess I didn't think -20 was very drastic, on a scale of -100 to 100. If I want a dark sky without mottling, does this mean I should switch my camera to B&W and put on a red filter? Seems to kinda defeat the purpose a bit...</p>

<p>I'm running into this issue on a number of photos out of my 50D where there are mottled bits of the sky when I go to black and white. I can't tell if this is an artifact of the bit depth of my monitor, bit depth in LR preview, or a problem in camera (e.g. lens or sensor issues). I have to order prints from out of state, so before I go through the wait/expense, some feedback would be very helpful. Here's what I got:<br> The image was captured:</p> <ul> <li>Raw</li> <li>ETTR</li> <li>1/500 and f/8</li> </ul> <p>In Lightroom, I:</p> <ul> <li>Adjusted blacks and whites to clipping</li> <li>Converted to B&W by selecting Bland & White Treatment (Top of "Basic")</li> <li>Adjusted Blue channel from +5 to -20</li> <li>Sharpening: Amount 25; Radius 1.0; Detail 25; Masking 39 (used option+mask to adjust masking to the point where sky was masked out)</li> </ul> <p>Attached is a 100% crop of a full rez JPG output at max quality - it is representational of what I see in LR. </p> <p>Any thoughts? I greatly appreciate any feedback<br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18283713-lg.jpg" alt="" width="1181" height="830" /></p>