{"id":20137,"date":"2018-11-05T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:53:52","slug":"3-reasons-need-understand-color-get-best-bw-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/20137\/3-reasons-need-understand-color-get-best-bw-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Need To Understand Color To Get The Best B&amp;W Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_3522_BWColor-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_3522_BWColor-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3522_BWColor\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Why do you need to understand color to get the best black-and-white images?<br \/>\nLet me count the reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Understand How Flexible The Luminosity Of Saturated Colors During Exposure And Conversion<\/strong><br \/>\nUnderstanding how light and\/or dark you can make saturated colors will help you pre-visualize the tonal possibilities within an image before exposure. When post-processing, while you\u2019re converting color images to black-and-white, I recommend you make all of these ideas visible realities, making many different black and white versions and comparing them side-by-side. At the same time, you need to understand how neutral and near neutral colors do not offer the same flexibility, which will improve both your vision and your efficiency.<\/p>\n<br><script src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js\"><\/script><form method=\"post\" id=\"los-pp-form\"><table cellpadding=\"7\" style=\"background-color:#eee;border:1px solid #C0C0C0\"><tr><td colspan=\"2\">Insights Members can login to read the full article.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Email:<\/td><td> <input name=\"los_pp_email\" type=\"text\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\"><button class=\"g-recaptcha\" type=\"submit\" data-sitekey=\"6LecTYkqAAAAAHJvkyBxFs7D81oS4wjaoHknShEt\" data-callback=\"onSubmit\">Login<\/button> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/get-news\/\">Sign up<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/form><script> function onSubmit(token) { document.getElementById(\"los-pp-form\").submit(); } <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you need to understand color to get the best black-and-white images? 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