Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

by Harold Davis
Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

by Harold Davis

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Overview

Learn to master the unique challenges of black and white photography, and create high-quality, beautiful images!

In this newly revised and expanded classic guide to black and white photography, renowned photographer Harold Davis breaks through the mystery of digital monochrome. Using more than 200 of his own stunning fully-captioned monochromatic images to illustrate, Davis walks you through the visual ideas that work well with black and white. He shares the technical approaches that you can use to create high-quality monochromatic photos.

With Creative Black & White you'll discover a deeper appreciation for what you can accomplish when taking portraits, landscapes, night photos, close-ups, and more. This book provides both inspiration and technical instruction. You may never photograph the world in quite the same way again! Learn to see and think in black and white:

    • Convert RAW files to black and white
    • Use color information to create black and white photos in Lightroom and Photoshop
    • Create monochromatic images using multi-RAW processing and HDR
    • Learn how to apply solarization, tinting, toning, and other special effects
    • Complete exposure data and the story behind every photo

Find inspiration and instruction for your journey with black and white photography with Creative Black & White.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681984964
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Publication date: 07/23/2019
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 1,117,058
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Harold Davis is a bestselling author of many books, the developer of a unique technique for photographing flowers for transparency, a Moab Master, and a Zeiss Ambassador. He is an internationally known photographer and a sought-after workshop leader. Find him online at www.digitalfieldguide.com.

Table of Contents

THE MONOCHROMATIC VISION

Past, Present, and Future

Thinking in Black and White

Contrast

Color Implied

The Tonal Landscape

Visual Implication

Seeing in Black and White

Pre-Visualization Techniques

Black and White Composition

Framing

Patterns and Lines

Shape and Form

High Key

Low Key

Shades of Gray

Finding Monochromatic Subjects

Black and White at Night

Photographing People

Portraiture in Black and White

BLACK AND WHITE IN THE DIGITAL ERA

Digital Black and White Roadmap

The RAW Advantage

Black and White in Adobe Camera RAW

Black and White in Lightroom

Grayscale Conversion Using Presets

HSL Conversion

Exposure Gradients and Adjustments

Exporting Virtual Copies into Photoshop as Layers

Multiple Layers and Masking in Photoshop

Multi-RAW Processing in Photoshop

Black and White in Photoshop

Blending with Black

Using the Channel Mixer

Black & White Adjustment Layers

Silver Efex Pro

Topaz B&W Effects

OnOne Perfect B&W

The Digital Analog to the Analog Zone System

Combining Conversions in Photoshop

CREATIVE BLACK AND WHITE OPPORTUNITIES

Lighting and Monochromatic Photos

Creating High-Key Effects

Creating Low-Key Effects

HDR in Black and White

Shooting for HDR

Using HDR Software

Toning and Tinting

Tinting with a Black & White Adjustment Layer

Split Toning

The Ansel Adams Effect

Selective Color

Hand Coloring

Using LAB Color

Inverting the L Channel

Equalizing LAB Channels

Swapping Tonalities

Using Blending Modes

LAB Inversions

Soft Focus

Adding Soft Focus

Pinhole Effect

Solarization

Using Curves to Solarize an Image

Simulating the Blossfeldt Effect

Duotone and Tritone Effects

Adding and Reducing Noise

Film Effects

Infrared Camera Conversions

Infrared Conversion without an IR Camera

Creating X-Ray Images

MOBILE BLACK AND WHITE

Black and White using a Cell Phone Camera

Working with Snapseed

Toward a Monochromatic Mobile Workflow

Notes and Resources

Glossary

Index

Interviews

I was flattered to be asked to write this revised and expanded second edition of Creative Black & White. One of the goals of this new edition is to bring the tools and techniques explained in this book up to date. This is particularly important in the realm of Lightroom and Photoshop software, and with the plug-ins that are a necessary extension of the Adobe ecosystem.

Beyond keeping current, I want to help you become a better and more creative photographer, whatever your interest level or toolset may be. Today's cameras will make a perfectly decent photograph when set on automatic most of the time. The same photo can be converted in-camera to monochromatic with reasonable results and the push of a menu item or two. If this is your interest level, to make interesting monochromatic images you need to think about conceptual issues: What makes an interesting image? What is a good composition? How is light related to darkness within an image?

My goal as a photography teacher and writer about photography is to inspire and to help you become the best and most creative photographer and image-maker that you can be. In that spirit, I hope that my book, Creative Black & White, helps you along your journey, and I send you my best wishes in photography.

Harold Davis

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