Spencer Smith Park pier, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
The pier in Burlington has been under construction for years, often proclaimed completed only to be heavily damaged during winter storms on Lake Ontario. The city claims to have got it right this time. For me, processing landscape images is a lot like building this pier. There are problems and solutions to those problems. Sometimes you have the tools and the skill to do the work well, other times you don't. When you don't, it fails and you have to start again. Getting the high key tones right is difficult. I'm largely groping in the dark. Luckily, the high key images don't seem to show banding as pronounced as the low key images. For the last 12 months I have been using Aperture and NIK's Silver Efex II to process my BW images. For most things it works well but images like this or those that have really smooth gradations of tones are a nightmare. I've tried a variety of different approaches but nothing seems to work really well.
My banding problems fall into two areas: 1) altering areas of smooth tone results in banding that I can't satisfactorily fix.
2) images that don't show banding on my computer do show it once uploaded.
If you are willing to offer book suggestions, tutorials(online or otherwise), pointers, or any suggestions, I'm all ears.
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