Good day Flexers. Still refining the "billeotype" with SPix5, trying to find a cooking recipe for blacks and whites in contrast. Often, a furr ball is your pet (and it's not named Dick, of course, ahem!), here is one: http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/chouchounik/P1010273_dev.jpg It has probalby no photographic value but for the tonal range coupled to the shallow DOF (photographed with a compact equipped with Leica lens, macro mode). The B&W helps to distingish better the foreground from the background. The same image in color is... duller.Of course no dog was harmed at that moment, he was just looking down to a small piece of paper he let down while toring it apart :) Another example, here is a well known place (at least for you flexers), the water lock on the Marne (Digilux 3 + Vario Elmar @50mm, yesterday late afternoon, walking the furr ball): http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/HDRXB/L1000913_dev.jpg Yes, it's contrasty dark, yet the white is clearly present. For comparison, same in color, the textures seem drowned in the picture: http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/HDRXB/L1000913Col_dev.jpg And finally, a foot bridge over the Marne, at the same location: http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/HDRXB/L1000914_dev.jpg Thanks for having read till here, Comments and Criticism or ideas to explore a new way are welcomed !!! Reminder : "Billeotypes" are B&W images in wich the HDR from SP5 is activated plus ajusting the curves to maximise the contrast. #----------------------------------- From : Xavier F. BILLE mail : hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx Maisons Alfort - France