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5 Quick and Easy Tips for Black and White Photography

Black and white photos are considered to be a lost world these days by some. When you can play with a wide range of colors with powerful pixel cameras, why limit yourself to be in mere two colors? However, the fact is that these black and white photos can [...]

Color Filters and Black and White Photography

Analog photographers make use of color filters to add drama and visual depth to their photographs. The various color filters allow the photographer to change the gray scale distribution which can add or subtract subject contrast. There are many good [...]

Using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

I am not a black and white photographer because I love color so much.  But some images look so dramatic in black and white that I am compelled to explore those possibilities.   A case in point in the photo of a Balinese dancer I photographed in [...]

Photoshop technique: Sepia toning

I taught myself Photoshop in the early 90s by translating my knowledge from the darkroom into the digital realm.  For example, I knew how to make a sepia toned print from a black and white original, and one of the first things I learned how to do was to [...]

Converting digital images to black and white

Photographers love to argue about film vs. digital. Film lovers may cite the virtue of carefully planning each frame, the skill necessary for developing film correctly and of course the hours of painstaking work in a darkroom creating the perfect prints. [...]

10 Tips for Navigating the PhotoPlus Expo in New York City

The 2010 PDN PhotoPlus International Conference and Expo opens its doors today, Thursday, October 28 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Below are 10 tips for getting the most from the show. I've been attending the show for about the last 20 years, [...]

Seeing in Grayscale: Experiments with Black-and-White Photos

The world is filled with color in all its hue and shades, from the brilliant azure of a tropical sea to the rich red of a garden rose, yet we accept black and white as quite natural, as a fair and reasonable representation of what we have photographed. And [...]

Three Approaches to Digital Infrared Photography