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November 30, 2015 | Leave a Comment |
Learning to see in black and white has changed. Prior to the 21st century, black and white photographers developed a heightened sensitivity to intensity and direction of light as well as tonal relationships between highlights and shadows. For the most part, they discounted the appearance of hue and saturation, with a few exceptions.
These perceptual skills are still very important for 21st century digital black and white photographers. But, today, previsualizing possibilities becomes much more challenging. Because you can make any hue light or dark, globally or locally, dramatically extending the variability of an image's tonal structure, the two additional variables, hue and saturation, need to be factored in rather than factored out.
Category: Technique - B&W Tags: black and white, black and white conversions, Software - Lightroom, Software - Photoshop
November 29, 2015 | Leave a Comment |
Michael Hedges revolutionized solo acoustic guitar performance.
Aerial Boundaries is quite possibly his best known performance.
It's absolutely brilliant!
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Category: Creativity - Video Music Tags: Creativity, michael hedges, music
November 27, 2015 | Leave a Comment |
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Category: Newsletter - Insights Tags: newsletter, Photography
November 23, 2015 | Leave a Comment |
There are at many ways to convert an image from color to black and white. Here's a roundup and evaluation of the top seven plus a set of considerations to help you choose the best one for your needs.
1 Desaturate
Desaturate or use the Saturation slider to make all the channels the same without control over the mix. Desaturaton is useful for near neutral images, otherwise it produces compressed tonal structure.
2 Convert Mode To Grayscale
Grayscale conversions eliminate all channels but one. The default mix is 59% Green, 29% Red, 11% Blue. This can be customized by targeting a single channel before conversion, to get 100% of any channel in any color space, including Lab. Quick and direct, this method eliminates future flexibility; its limited use is to create Grayscale images for reproduction but it's not the best way to make a conversion from color to black and white.
3 Channel Mixer
The Channel Mixer set to Monochrome allows you to customize the mix of channels and can be used as an adjustment layer, which allows you to change the mix at any time in the future.
Category: Technique - B&W Tags: black & white, conversion, Photography, Technique, workflow
November 22, 2015 | Leave a Comment |
Mike Manring demonstrates his musical virtuosity with his custom made bass capable of switching to different tunings mid-performance.
In this extended video, after his first astonishing performance he eloquently celebrates the instrument he loves, before playing two more pieces.
He's a musical pioneer who continues to break new ground. In my humble opinion, he is the world's finest bass player - ever.
Category: Creativity - Video Music Tags: bass, Creativity, jazz, mike manring, music
November 21, 2015 | Leave a Comment |
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Category: Photographers - Photographs Tags: history of photography, irving penn, Photographers, Photography, portraits
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