The Complete Guide to Black & White Digital Photography
Dec/091
Product Description
Michael Freeman—our top digital photography author and a worldwide name—presents the most comprehensive book yet on black-and-white digital photography. Oversized, beautifully illustrated, and far-reaching in scope, this guide is destined to be a standard reference for years to come.
Freeman covers all aspects of black-and-white digital photography: its fine art tradition as well as its techniques. Learn how to see and expose in black and white, digitally convert color to monochrome, and develop a black-and-white digital workflow. Explore creative choices and how to interpret various subjects most skillfully in monochrome. Finally, get an expert’s advice on printing and displaying black-and-white photographs to best effect.
The Complete Guide to Black & White Digital Photography
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5:15 am on December 4th, 2009
I have several of Mr Freeman’s books:
The Photographer’s Eye
Perfect Exposure
Top Digital Photography Tips
The Complete Guide to Black and White Digital Photography is just as good as the others. The layout and quality of prints is pleasing. More importantly the author not only displays a deep knowledge of the topic but supplements each one with detailed pictures. Mr Freeman writes well and I find his explanations well reasoned and easy to understand.
Post processing is a big part of digital Black and White photography. Photoshop/Camera Raw curves and color sliders are used to explain many of the processing steps, but these are common in most photo processing software. I like the way the author discusses a topic, shows an original color photo, its default transformation to black and white, followed by several steps showing effects of changing one or two hues.
Digital processing is just one of the four sections in the book:
1. The Black and White Tradition
2. Digital Monochrome
3. Creative Choices
4. Printing and Display
The two hundred plus large size pages are quite absorbing.
Rating: 5 / 5