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52 Assignments: Black & White Photography is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft.
The book is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful black and white images. From capturing clouds, reflections, and water to shooting cityscapes, architecture, and vehicles, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to embrace this timeless art and convey the essence of your subject through shades of light and dark alone. Whether you're photographing natural elements or manmade landscapes, each assignment encourages you to look at the world in a new way, relying on shape, texture, and the source, direction, and intensity of light, rather than color, to create eye-catching images. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your monochromatic photography.
Assignment topics include:
- Reflections
- Texture
- Tall Buildings
- Streets at Night
- Creative Selfies
- Silhouettes
- Minimalism
- Motion Blur
- Negative Space
- Sunrises
- Decisive Moments
“If you want to fill 2022 with creative monochrome projects, Brian Lloyd Duckett’s 52 Assignments: Black & White Photography is a great inspiration."—Black+White Photography
Praise for Mastering Street Photography
“Lloyd Duckett’s years of experience and own strong style make this the perfect hybrid of “how-to” and inspiring visual feast. . . . Lloyd-Duckett’s years teaching workshops shine through, as he seems to know the answer to every possible question”—Digital Camera World on Mastering Street Photography
1. Moment in the sun
2. Fast track
3. Just an illusion
4. Shifting gears
5. Nifty fifty
6. Feel the tension
7. Rise and shine
8. Honoring Henri
9. A sense of place
10. Less is more
11. Get cornered
12. Balancing act
13. Reinvent your selfie
14. Total stranger
15. Lonely as a cloud
16. Urban living
17. In the abstract
18. Embrace the space
19. On a roll
20. Layer cake
21. Trade secrets
22. Towering above
23. Work the angles
24. Dramatic outlines
25. Time stands still
26. Wordplay
27. Go with the flow
28. Hot off the press
29. The everyday
30. Surface appeal
31. Escape the tourist trap
32. Square up
33. Shot in the dark
34. A pattern developing
35. Calm down
36. All a blur
37. Moth to a flame
38. A new vision
39. In the ‘hood
40. Out of the gloom
41. Take to the streets
42. Big bokeh
43. Building detail
44. Into the light
45. Perfectly imperfect
46. Life’s a beach
47. Nine ways
48. High time
49. Cover art
50. Branch out
51. Lost and found
52. Ghost town