Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Book Synopsis: Black-and-white photography poses unique challenges; without color to guide the eye, contrast, lighting, and composition take on even more importance. In Creative Black and White, 2nd Edition, renowned photographer Harold Davis explains these elements and demonstrates the basic rules of black and white photography, as well as when and how to break them. He breaks through the complexity of this photographic medium, explores opportunities for black-and-white imagery, and shows how to capitalize on each and every one of them. This new, revised, and expanded edition brings the tools up to date with extended sections on monochrome in Lightroom, Photoshop, and related plugins.

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

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