CL: Turn Grid On and Off with Custom Button?

[skimmel]

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I have been trying to figure out a way to turn the grid view on and off easily, without going into the menu.  I can't seem to find it in the custom button options.  Is there a way to do this ( am I just missing something obvious)?

 

Thanks.

[lct]

Did you try with user profiles?

[skimmel]

Yes, just figured out that this work!  Would be nice to be able to turn on and off more easily though.

[lct]

There is perhaps another way but i don't know it sorry.

[lrobbin]

I have an issue with photographing medium shot (50mm) scenes of landscapes (especially visually complex scenes of meadows and fields) with my M9 240 Moonchrom. The scenes lack coherence because of the complex array of black blacks, muddy grays, and the Zone 10 brights. (high contrast landscapes are not the problem) I realize I can do lots of tests to help sort this out. But if anyone has any ideas about this, I'd appreciate listening to them. When I photograph the same scene in color, I can make it work. Assuming with the black and white shots, the composition is right, how can I avoid the black blacks, muddy grays, and Zone 10 skys? Filters perhaps? My ideal shot for this sort of situation was taken by Cartier-Bresson of a scene in the French countryside with grasses, trees, a horse, a road (I believe). It's alive, open, coherent. Of course, it was shot with film, but still that's the direction in exposure and handling blacks, whites, and grays in visually complex landscapes that I would like to go.

Any ideas or suggestions?

[jaapv]

A grid on itself won’t help. Simplifying your compositions will. You could consider reading a few books on composition. Most are written for painters but apply equally to photographs. As for correcting the tonal range you could study the works of Andel Adams, or if you want to take a processing shortcut, use Silver Efex Pro. I use the tools of Photoshop for the  purpose, mainly Curves and Levels. 

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vor 20 Stunden schrieb lrobbin:

I have an issue with photographing medium shot (50mm) scenes of landscapes (especially visually complex scenes of meadows and fields) with my M9 240 Moonchrom. The scenes lack coherence because of the complex array of black blacks, muddy grays, and the Zone 10 brights. (high contrast landscapes are not the problem) I realize I can do lots of tests to help sort this out. But if anyone has any ideas about this, I'd appreciate listening to them. When I photograph the same scene in color, I can make it work. Assuming with the black and white shots, the composition is right, how can I avoid the black blacks, muddy grays, and Zone 10 skys? Filters perhaps? My ideal shot for this sort of situation was taken by Cartier-Bresson of a scene in the French countryside with grasses, trees, a horse, a road (I believe). It's alive, open, coherent. Of course, it was shot with film, but still that's the direction in exposure and handling blacks, whites, and grays in visually complex landscapes that I would like to go.

Any ideas or suggestions?

I run into this too, what I find that works is using RAW, the Highlight, Shadows, Black and White sliders in ACR really help. Not sure if this is possible with a Monochrome. Using it to tone down skies and open shadows can make a difficult image work. This is what Ansel Adams did in analog terms. Once saw a photo of the negative of Moonrise over Hernandez New Mexico and the sky was totally blocked, he had an enlarger with multiple light sources in a grid as well as being a master at dodging and burning. Being a master is the key here.

Edited October 7, 2020 by tommonego@gmail.com

[lrobbin]

In working on this problem - which has to do with complex exposure issues rather than composition - I gave myself a difficult scene to shoot in black and white: primarily wild bushes in sunlight fill the frame (with some grasses in the foreground and trees in the background). Lots of leaves with bright highlights and deep shadows and black blacks. It's all kind of a B/W turbulent, hard to read, bright sunlight, nature scene. I tried different filters. Yellow and Green filters helped most.

There was another test scene with brown grasses in the sunlight, Red worked well. Digital B/W adds an element of difficulty and obtuseness in busy nature scenes that I don't see as much with film.

BTW, it goes without saying LR and PS help.

The easy answer is to keep away from those scenes like the one I described above and shoot fewer scenes with lots of busy light complexity.