Hector,
I purchased an e-book through Digital Photography School By David J. Nightingale.
I posted the cover and Table of Contents. Take a look and see if it may be what you're looking for.
Good Luck!
Thanks Macoose.
Hector,
I purchased an e-book through Digital Photography School By David J. Nightingale.
I posted the cover and Table of Contents. Take a look and see if it may be what you're looking for.
Good Luck!
Thanks Macoose. That's the sort of thing I was curious about whether there was books like that available.
Thanks everyone else for the replies too.
I'm doing Black and White conversion for years in Photoshop / Lightroom / Silver Efex / Topaz etc.
The basics are absolutely fine for me.
I was just wondering if there was any special book that I haven't come across on Black and White processing and these days they are often e-books or videos.
There are print books but not much recently.
I have studied the masters photographs as mentioned above and I've all 3 Ansel Adams book.
Silver Efex shows you the Zone system but its not adjustable by the Zones.
I'm surprised no company has software that would make that easy. Split the photo into 10 zones that can be adjusted.
Luminosity masks can achieve something like it but its not that straightforward
I've Salgado's books and really enjoyed Salt of the Earth which is a very inspiring film.
What I haven't found is a book that really tells you how to increase the impact of your BW photographs.
There alot of books on Photoshop techniques but they tend to be colour based.
I'd like to better go to extremes of black and white without losing detail
Yousef Karsh would be a favourite - of course this was film and darkroom.
One of the questions is what am I shooting - just about anything to be honest.
Wildlife, sport , portraits , models , street etc... I'm pretty snap happy.