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Professional Techniques for Black & White Digital Photography [Paperback]

Patrick Rice (Author)
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Publication Date: February 1, 2005
This professional guidebook provides tips to create technically correct and highly marketable digital black-and-white photographs. Designed to instruct professional and experienced amateur photographers, this highly visual format features 100 landscape, portrait, and wedding images from 20 leading digital imaging experts. Advice is included for utilizing professional digital effects, selecting an appropriate SLR camera, and managing difficulties and rewards associated with creating high-end black-and-white digital images.

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"Chapters guide you through composition, workflow, filters, and digital effects, as well as printing techniques."  —PCPhoto


"Rice's arguments for the power of black and white over color will give you much to think about."  —Technical Communication Online

About the Author

Patrick Rice is an award-winning photographer and the author of Infrared Wedding Photography and The Professional Photographer's Guide to Success in Print Competition. He lives in North Olmstead, Ohio.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (February 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1584281499
  • ISBN-13: 978-1584281498
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,651,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Professional Biography:

Patrick Rice is an award winning photographer from Ohio. He holds the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsmen degrees from the Professional Photographers of America as well as the Accolade of Lifetime Photographic Excellence degree from Wedding and Portrait Photographers International.He lectures extensively throughout the United Sates on a variety of photographic topics and is co-author of the book "Infrared Wedding Photography: Techniques and Images in Black and White", and the author of "Digital Infrared Photography: Professional Techniques and Images", "Professional Techniques for Black and White Digital Photography", "Digital Portrait Photography of Teens and Seniors", "Success in Print Competition for Professional Photographers" and "Professional Digital Imaging for Wedding and Portrait Photographers".

In 2000, Mr. Rice received the Leadership Award from the International Photographic Council. The ceremony honored the top five photographers in the world and was held at the United Nations in New York city.

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55 of 59 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very good book indeed. Basically it covers the concepts you need to know in order to capture good color images on your digital camera that can then later be converted to black and white. It further goes on to explain and suggest all the various options open to you to make this photo marketable and or a work of art. While I don't agree 100% with everything said, I am on board for 95%. The provided photos are great and inspiring and the book address both manual ways in photoshop to convert to B/w (besides just clicking greyscale or desaturate) as well as the plugins available out there. Having said this,be aware that this is a very photoshop centric book too.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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In my opinion, the publisher and author of this book are guilty of bait and switch tactics. For a book entitled, *Professional Techniques* for Black & White Photography, it is a huge disappointment.

The book is a general introduction to digital photography targeted at readers who are beginners to photography. Almost the entire content of the book is on the level of a very simple magazine article written for non-specialists. For instance, there are sections on the rule of thirds, on avoiding dividing the frame in the middle, and so on. Only a handful of very simple techniques are presented, such as how to convert an image to grayscale and then use curves to adjust the contrast. The entire discussion of the channel mixer takes up only a few lines -- this in a supposedly "professional" book on B&W technique. There is nothing in here that any slightly experienced amateur digital photographer does not already know.

From the title of the book and the glowing reader reviews, I expected detailed, technical discussions of how to handle the challenges involved in producing fine-art-quality digital B&W work. Nothing in the book even approaches that. (Michael Freeman's Mastering Black and White Digital Photography has plenty of this sort of content, though his exposition is not particularly clear or well organized.)

I'm appalled at the audacity of the publisher and author and wish I could get my money back.

I don't understand the grounds for the positive reviews posted here. I can only imagine they were written by friends or associates of the author.

Postscript: Sure enough, I checked out the first few of the positive reviews below, and they are obviously all fake. Each reviewer has reviewed all and only the books by Patrick Rice and one other person and given them all high marks. Wish I'd looked before.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Great Photography February 17, 2006
By Gerard
Format:Paperback
This book has great photographs, which is why I bought it. The poses and lighting are very helpful. Although the author stated he creates his digital photos in color, his black & white conversions look as good as any B&W film pictures I have seen.

This is a worthwhile book on digital black & white
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A book for entry level
Overall, book is well organized and written for a beginner but it is far from covering advanced techniques and methods. Good starter book but far from being professional.
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Published on January 25, 2009 by L. T. Beasimer
Great book!!!
This is a very useful book that enriches the art of black and white photography in a digital age.
Published on September 5, 2007 by Dawn Johns
Great book
I learned a few things reading this book, about infared photography and such, but a lot of what he writes about is more technical, I wanted some tips, ideas and maybe inspiration. Read more
Published on March 14, 2007 by James R. Decava
Great Book.
This book is great for teaching you about black & white photography. Gives you all the info you need to take the picture and how to manipulate in photoshop. Read more
Published on February 14, 2007 by Charity Reed
A disappointment
This book lacked information on most of the things one would expect given the title, such as exposure response of digital cameras, contrast control, grain control, lighting, and... Read more
Published on December 7, 2006 by Chris B
Great Pictures and Lots of Information
I found this book to have really great pictures and lots of useful information. In addition to the author's fine photography, the senior portrait work by Leonard Hill and the... Read more
Published on May 3, 2006 by Andrea Perkins
Just What I Needed
I just completed a three day class with the author of this book and purchased this book and two of his other titles. Read more
Published on April 30, 2006 by Photo Pro
Clear, Concise and To The Point
I found this to be an excellent book and I really love the pictures by the author and the other photographers included. Read more
Published on April 21, 2006 by Greg Harper
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digital infrared images, white imaging, modified camera, traditional darkroom, wedding images, lens speed, wedding photography, sepia toning, digital darkroom, media card, infrared photography, white photographer, fisheye lens, color mode, white photography
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Patrick Rice, Nikon Coolpix, Phase One, Leaf C-Most, Channel Mixer, Barbara Rice, Adobe Photoshop, Michelle Perkins, Dennis Orchard, Lab Color, Leonard Hill, Monte Zucker, Rule of Thirds, Bakker's Saddle, Color Picker, Lexar Media, Michael Ayers, Tom Muñoz, Kim Anderson, Mark Bohland, Penney Adams, Add Noise, Amherst Media, Dennis Valentine, Flatten Image
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