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>>221742 Okay? So? Work with that or get a new camera, either way quit bitching and take some good photographs. Incorporate the stuff in the background into your composition. If you don't want to do that, get yourself a sub-$100 film SLR with a 50mm and some rolls of cheap B&W film (Arista is the cheapest, I'm pretty sure, and it's just rebadged Fomapan) and go to town.
I'm guessing you're>>221031. Bridge cameras are perfectly fine photographic tools; there is nothing in them that should inhibit you from taking good photographs. I use one, for a variety of reasons, for most of my work. Just go do it.
What bridge camera do you have that doesn't do raw? An SxIS?
>>221758 This is exactly what I do, except in ACR and then Photoshop, for both color and black and white work. The blacks slider is some great magic.
I'll also adjust local tones with dodging and burning quite often, though, just little touch-ups. I'm a perfectionist and unlike Heavyweather I don't have an editor on my back to have them ready by a certain time.
A nice trick to improve bokeh in black and white:
1. New layer, soft light, fill with soft light neutral color. (Don't know why, but doing this improves the look of any dodging or burning one does.) 2. Pull up the burn tool, set it to highlights, and 100%. 3. Burn everything that's out of focus. 4. Adjust opacity to taste.
Gives the bokeh this nice richness to it.
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