BOOK – Harold Davis Creative Black & White (2nd Edition): Digital Photography Tips and Techniques Rocky Nook

THE MONOCHROMATIC VISION

 

• Past, Present, and Future
• Thinking in Black and White
• Contrast
• Color Implied
• The Tonal Landscape
• Visual Implication
• Seeing in Black and White
• Pre-Visualization Techniques
• Black and White Composition
• Framing
• Patterns and Lines
• Shape and Form
• High Key
• Low Key
• Shades of Gray
• Finding Monochromatic Subjects
• Black and White at Night
• Photographing People
• Portraiture in Black and White

BLACK AND WHITE IN THE DIGITAL ERA

• Digital Black and White Roadmap
• The RAW Advantage
• Black and White in Adobe Camera RAW
• Black and White in Lightroom
• Grayscale Conversion Using Presets
• HSL Conversion
• Exposure Gradients and Adjustments
• Exporting Virtual Copies into Photoshop as Layers
• Multiple Layers and Masking in Photoshop
• Multi-RAW Processing in Photoshop
• Black and White in Photoshop
• Blending with Black
• Using the Channel Mixer
• Black & White Adjustment Layers
• Topaz B&W Effects
• On One Perfect B&W
• The Digital Analog to the Analog Zone System
• Combining Conversions in Photoshop

CREATIVE BLACK AND WHITE OPPORTUNITIES

• Lighting and Monochromatic Photos
• Creating High-Key Effects
• Creating Low-Key Effects
• HDR in Black and White
• Shooting for HDR
• Using HDR Software
• Toning and Tinting
• Tinting with a Black & White Adjustment Layer
• Split Toning
• The Ansel Adam’s Effect
• Selective Color
• Hand Coloring
• Using LAB Color
• Inverting the L Channel
• Equalizing LAB Channels
• Swapping Tonalities
• Using Blending Modes
• LAB Inversions
• Soft Focus
• Adding Soft Focus
• Pinhole Effect
• Solarization
• Using Curves to Solarize an Image
• Simulating the Blossfeldt Effect
• Duotone and Tritone Effects
• Adding and Reducing Noise
• Film Effects
• Infrared Camera Conversions
• Infrared Conversion without an IR Camera
• Creating X-Ray Images

MOBILE BLACK AND WHITE

• Black and White Using a Cell Phone Camera
• Working with Snapseed
• Toward a Monochromatic Mobile Workflow

Notes and Resources

Glossary

Index