Its easy to take colour pictures but black and white images are still very popular. They are often seen as more 'arty' than colour ones. The Magnum in Motion images are often in black and white. Photographer Harold Davis explains here why there is a case for still using black and white in the digital age. See his Flickr monochrome set here.
Here are a couple of ways of doing this in Photoshop. Importantly they allow you to manipulate the tonal values rather than just removing the colour uniformly from the image.
Posting 1 and some more techniques posting 2.
I have a further technique that has worked well for me but I might experiment with some of those too.
enjoy, Mike J
Friday 6 February 2009
Composition and framing in photography
Over the past 4 weeks we have been refreshing camera skills before the start of semester 2 and starting to shoot and edit video. We discussed framing and camera controls in a crash course single session. There was alot to take in for those new to the subject. today I found an interesting 'site' covering the basics of composition. The author has a very useful photography website thats well worth a look. The photos are technically really nice but very stylised. While I'm on about photography here are some other sites worth checking out:
lightwriting - virtual graffiti
Magmun in motion - great photo essays
photographing scenes with snow
enjoy,
Mike J
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