The Photographer’s Black and White Handbook: Making and Processing Stunning Digital Black and White Photos
The Photographer’s Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You’ll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow to take you from black and white pre-visualization through capture and post-production.
The Photographer’s Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You’ll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow to take you from black and white pre-visualization through capture and post-production. Along the way you will lean over Harold’s shoulder as he travels to exciting photo destinations and creates stunning black and white imagery, explaining his creative and technical processes as he goes.
This definitive guide includes:
■ How to see in black and white
■ Pre-visualization in digital photography
■ Understanding black and white composition
■ How to create your own black and white workflow
■ Black and white in ACR, Lightroom, and Photoshop
■ Using black and white plug-ins including Nik Silver Efex Pro and Topaz B&W Effects
■ Extending tonal range with multi-RAW processing and monochromatic HDR ■ Post-production techniques for working with dynamic range
■ Creative black and white special effects
■ Find out how to tone, tint, colorize, solarize, and simulate IR
■ Work with LAB to create unique black and white effects ■ Great tools for unleashing your photographic imagination
■ Beautiful photographs by Harold Davis chosen to inspire and guide you
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Both an Informative Read and a Beautiful Coffee Table Book If you are interested in creating black and white images or improving and expanding your skills in this area, Harold Davisâ The Photographerâs Black & White Handbook is a must read.The first thing I did when I picked up this book was check out the Table of Content. The first three chapters will lead you through pre-visualization, seeing in black and white and composing your images. The third chapter discusses converting your images to black and white. Harold Davis talks about…
Great book for any level photographer Harold Davis is one of my favorite photography authors, as well as a favorite photographer. This is the 4th book Ive purchased by him. Reason being, he is intricately detailed in his explanations, but not to the point it is over my head. This book is fantastic, because he goes into detail about what to look for when choosing to make a black & white photo. His photos are inspiring, his words are clear, engaging and encouraging. I’d recommend this book to anyone who is even curious about black &…
Change the way you see in Black and White! I bought this book and absolutely DEVOURED it! This is a well written, entertaining and instructive guide that will help any photographer interested in BW photography â but more than that, it has enabled me to SEE differently as well as to even re-visit some older color photos for new processing. I think that my sense of composition has been forever altered (for the better!) and my toolkit of ideas has really grown!