Digital photographers can now attain the enduring beauty of black-and-white photography in their own work! There’s more to monochrome than just discarding the color in Photoshop, but many books simply treat it as an afterthought. Not this one! John Beardsworth teaches every major method of making a color picture black and white, and explains what kind of images are best, and why. Both ambitious newcomers and advanced enthusiasts will learn how to achieve the richest tonal depth and balance, use black and white to interpret the subject for the viewer, reproduce historic and darkroom processes, add creative and special effects, and produce exhibition-quality prints.
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John Beardsworth is a London-based photographer and bestselling writer who has authored nearly a dozen books about black-and-white digital photography and about using digital processing programs such as Photoshop and Lightroom.
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47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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Outstanding Book -- Buy It,
This review is from: Advanced Digital Black & White Photography (A Lark Photography Book) (Paperback)
I am a technical book addict. While I have only had this book 5 days, it has already paid for itself in improvement of my BW work. It is finely crafted, and to the point. It draws you in and it delivers for real world artists.
As a writer, I am struck by how well this book is structured and written, and the very fine layout of illustrations and methods. When you encounter an excellent technical book and find yourself immersed in it, sometimes you fail to notice the ease that essential information is being conveyed to you. Then suddenly it hits you, wow!, this is the gold standard. This is one of those books. It covers historical BW methods up to the present version of Photoshop, and then provides an outstanding and practical work flow in CS3. By understanding what has gone before, you understand better how CS3 takes BW to another level. The book is written by a person who is technically competent, a fine writer, and a BW artist. He understands how to frame the issues, and pragmatically deal with accessing the Photoshop tools needed in real world work flow. It is easy to write a huge book that is just a grocery list of features. It is very difficult to write a book like this that is supremely competent, focused, concise, and outlines strategies of interest to real world working artists. I rate it as one of the finest books I have ever read on using software. If there are any other books written by this author, I will buy them on strength of this one. I would say that someone with basic photoshop skills can easily use this book. If you lack these skills, I think this book would point you to what you need to learn. One of the challenges of learning photoshop is figuring what you need to know and what to ignore. This book finds that focus and is obviously written by a working artist. It is a tool unlike the bloated books that I own, that mostly collect dust and are consulted grudingly. Buy it, you will be pleasantly surprized.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent photoshop guide to B&W techniques,
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In the past 6 months I have read over a dozen photography and photoshop books. I would rate this amongst the best of the latter. The instructions for creating different techniques within photoshop are well illustrated in step by step fashion (a big plus for a newby to photoshop). It was definitely a little light on the overall theory behind B&W photography, so I would only rely on it if you have photoshop.
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I've been doing photography for over 40 years, read lots of books, taken lots of workshops. Advanced Digital Black and White Photography is the best, most informative, educational experience I have ever had in photography. Period.
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red filter, colored lens filters, white adjustment layer, blue channel values, infrared capture, mono conversion, print sharpening, grayscale rendition, grayscale tones, filter preset, area sharpening, digital darkroom, adjustment layers, tonal separation, opacity percentage, blending mode, smart object, raw conversion, conversion settings, pinhole images, contact strips, sharpening technique, dodging and burning, white conversion, grain layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Mixer, Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Adobe Camera Raw, Ansel Adams, Blue Filter, Blending Options, Color Range, High Pass, Quick Mask, Color Intensity, Green Filter, Smart Filters, Merge Visible, Color Fill, Lab Color, Open Object, Find Edges, Match Color, Show Channels, Activate the Brush, Gradient Map Browse Sample Pages:
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When my father heard I was about to begin a second book on black-and-white photography, he thought back a few years to his surprise at seeing the first one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
red filter, colored lens filters, white adjustment layer, blue channel values, infrared capture, mono conversion, print sharpening, grayscale rendition, grayscale tones, filter preset, area sharpening, digital darkroom, adjustment layers, tonal separation, opacity percentage, blending mode, smart object, raw conversion, conversion settings, pinhole images, contact strips, sharpening technique, dodging and burning, white conversion, grain layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Mixer, Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Adobe Camera Raw, Ansel Adams, Blue Filter, Blending Options, Color Range, High Pass, Quick Mask, Color Intensity, Green Filter, Smart Filters, Merge Visible, Color Fill, Lab Color, Open Object, Find Edges, Match Color, Show Channels, Activate the Brush, Gradient Map Browse Sample Pages:
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