Posted by Andrew on April 12th 2011
There’s a gap in my ‘The Magic of Black & White’ eBook series – Lightroom doesn’t get a mention – mainly because I used Photoshop CS when I wrote those eBooks (and still do). Luckily, Piet Van den Eynde has stepped up and filled in the gap with a superb new eBook: The Power of Black & White in Adobe Lightroom and Beyond (A Masterclass).
Posted by Andrew on November 22nd 2010
Anthony Loved to Fish
There’s a genre of photography that has always appealed to me and that I dabbled with a little when I first started using Photoshop, but have never pursued. I think of it as ‘surreal photography’ and like to see it when it is done well, especially in black and white. Which is exactly why I like the work of Michael Ticcino so much. His imaginative photos show how it is possible to use Photoshop to create imagery that exists only in the imagination.
Posted by Andrew on August 28th 2010
Close to Home – Eight Birds
It’s a common frustration - even a complaint – from photographers that the place they live in is not visually interesting, at least not interesting enough to build up a comprehensive body of work. It’s a frustration I share myself, and for me the solution has always been to travel to more interesting and photogenic places.
Some photographers though are lucky enough to live somewhere with a wealth of potential subject matter close by. Marius Rustad is one of them. He lives in Norway, and his project Close to Home resulted in a series of beautiful black and white prints taken close to where he lives.
Posted by Andrew on August 19th 2010
Today the third eBook in my Magic of Black & White series goes on sale on Craft and Vision. It’s called The Magic of Black & White: Part III – Nine Photos and picks up where the second eBook (The Magic of Black & White: Part II – Craft) left off.
In this eBook I take you through nine black and white images with the intention of explaining the more advanced Photoshop* techniques behind them. I discuss toning, split toning, exposure blending, soft focus and the creation of diptyches and triptyches. But it’s not just about Photoshop technique. Photoshop is an essential part of the digital black and white photographer’s toolbox – but to be anything more than a technical exercise it needs to be aligned with creative vision.
Posted by Andrew on August 17th 2010
Summer Moon
What is fine art photography? The term covers a broad subject range – it seems that photographers working in just about any genre of photography can produce photos good enough to exhibit and sell to the fine art photography market.
Photography magazines sometimes take a different tack, and publish articles showing you to create black and white images, usually still lifes overlaid with textures, that you can put on your wall. But is this fine art, or merely an imitation of it?
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