Part 2 of the guide to black and white photography: black and white photography technical essentials and an overview of conversion methods with the least amount of interpolations. Recommendations for better black and white photography

People ask me on regularly what my best black and white photography tips are, apart from the more generic tips like I shared them in this article. More specifically they ask: What’s the difference between a good and a bad black and white photograph?

No these are not the best tips ever on the Internet like many blogposts are screaming, and pretending, only to see they state that you should shoot in RAW and expose to the right. No, these are just my five personal tips to improve your black and white photographs…

In this article I’ll give an example how to approach a black & white still life photograph using my method of post processing. I’ll also give insight into my vision that precedes the processing phase. I’m trying to make a case for still life photography to hone your compositional skills.

How To Manage And Save Selections – A Black And White Photography Tutorial – Beginners Level Update November 13, 2017:  you can save yourself all the trouble learning this technique in this tutorial and the other selection tutorials and at the same time save a lot of...

Combining different tools to create selections A black and white photography tutorial for Photoshop. In the past few months I discussed 3 major tools that I use in my process for creating selections: 1. The Quick Mask Mode2. Channels3. The Pen Tool Today I want to...

The Pen Tool update November 13, 2017: you can save yourself all the trouble learning this technique in this tutorial and the other selection tutorials and at the same time save a lot of time and be more accurate by just creating selections with the new Quick Mask Pro...