What Makes Fine Art Photography
WHAT MAKES FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY Introduction A trending theme in photography right now is fine art photography. I'm calling myself a fine art photographer and perhaps you call yourself an artist too or perhaps you don't and you have encountered other photographers...
High-Level Principles for Fine-art Processing
In this new blog post, I’m focusing on the Why instead of just the How of fine-art post-processing by presenting a few high-level principles that form the basis of a structured method of processing to create images that are visually effective and aesthetic. Principles...
Creating striking, subtle dark images in B&W photography
Creating Striking But Subtle Dark Images In Black And White Photography There are many wrong assumptions in black and white photography, when it comes down to tonal zones and what they represent, and how contrasts should be used to reveal details. In this tutorial...
Guide to black and white photography 2 – Technical Essentials
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
IN DEFENSE OF BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
Part 1 of a guide to give some insight in black and white photography and how to create better black and white photographs.
Advanced split toning techniques
A more advanced and accurate way of creating split tones to a black and white photograph, using luminosity masks and exact color values for complementary tones.
Black and White Photography Advanced Tips
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?
Five Tips For Better Black and White Photographs
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…
Black and White Still life photography
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.
Black and White photography post processing techniques in the digital age
Black and white photography post processing techniques in the digital age. A suggested approach by isolating light and shapes instead of using original color information