Mastering Black & White Photography
Mastering Black & White Photography is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones.

Jargon-busting text, illustrated with the author's own stunning images, explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. The book explains the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes). A printing chapter discusses outputting and displaying images.

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Mastering Black & White Photography
Mastering Black & White Photography is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones.

Jargon-busting text, illustrated with the author's own stunning images, explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. The book explains the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes). A printing chapter discusses outputting and displaying images.

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Mastering Black & White Photography

Mastering Black & White Photography

by John Walmsley
Mastering Black & White Photography

Mastering Black & White Photography

by John Walmsley

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Overview

Mastering Black & White Photography is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones.

Jargon-busting text, illustrated with the author's own stunning images, explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. The book explains the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes). A printing chapter discusses outputting and displaying images.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781450871
Publisher: Ammonite Press
Publication date: 04/01/2016
Series: Mastering
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

John Walmsley is a freelance photographer and workshop leader for Focus on Light.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1
Equipment
Cameras
Lenses
Accessories

Chapter 2
Monochrome essentials
Color to Black & White
Ray of JPEG?
Colored Filters
In-Camera Effects

Chapter 3
Light & Exposure
Direction of Light
Quality of Light
Exposure Essentials
The Zone System
High Key
Low Key
Silhouettes

Chapter 4
Composition
The Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Odds
The Golden Ratio
The Golden Triangle
Leading Lines
Aspect Ratio
Spatial Awareness
Photographic Discord
Bipolar Pictorial Composition
Shapes & Patterns
Using a Narrow Depth of Field
Negative Space
Simplicity
Balance & Symmetry
Framing the Subject
Breaking the Rules

Chapter 5
Subjects
Landscape Photography
Portraiture
Documentary Photography
Still Life Photography
Architectural Photography

Chapter 6
Postproduction
Software
Black & White Conversions
Contrast Control
Adding Grain
Toning
Printing
Glossary
Useful Web Sites
Index
Acknowledgments

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