I love B&W prints. After practicing making B&W prints in the darkroom in my high school years. Seeing the beautiful tonal renditions it is capable of, then being drawn in by the prints of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, I have been hooked ever since. While many people prefer color photography because it looks more like the eye views a scene, that doesn’t bother me. B&W is fully capable of recording what our heart feels about a scene; the things that transcend measurable physical phenomena.
B&W is an important part of my personal expression, so it’s time we start talking about it on Crafting Photographs, and what better way to do it than with an EXAMPLES video!
This latest video is an overview of my basic techniques and approaches. It covers Photoshop work as well as issues with scanning and understanding how curves create tonal relationships. I hope it starts to demystify B&W printmaking for you!
Another awesome video…always learn something new
Thanks CH.
You covered this well, and I even saw a new ps tool in the process.
I’ve been doing a bunch of b&w printing on a HP Z3100 lately, and I too have been quite impressed with what can be accomplished in digital prints now from scanned film originals.
Your video here is a good introduction to this topic. From my experience so far, I don’t think you missed much to get people started.
Rich,
I’ve been following along a bit on your tutorials, but have one question. Have you found that the workflows you illustrate need to be changed in any when, when done under Windows 7, instead of the Mac?
Thanks,
Hi Robert,
Photoshop works the same regardless of platform, so no, no need to change anything for Windows 7.