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Mastering Black & White Photography is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones.
Jargon-busting text, illustrated with the author's own stunning images, explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. The book explains the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes). A printing chapter discusses outputting and displaying images.
Introduction
Chapter 1
Equipment
Cameras
Lenses
Accessories
Chapter 2
Monochrome essentials
Color to Black & White
Ray of JPEG?
Colored Filters
In-Camera Effects
Chapter 3
Light & Exposure
Direction of Light
Quality of Light
Exposure Essentials
The Zone System
High Key
Low Key
Silhouettes
Chapter 4
Composition
The Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Odds
The Golden Ratio
The Golden Triangle
Leading Lines
Aspect Ratio
Spatial Awareness
Photographic Discord
Bipolar Pictorial Composition
Shapes & Patterns
Using a Narrow Depth of Field
Negative Space
Simplicity
Balance & Symmetry
Framing the Subject
Breaking the Rules
Chapter 5
Subjects
Landscape Photography
Portraiture
Documentary Photography
Still Life Photography
Architectural Photography
Chapter 6
Postproduction
Software
Black & White Conversions
Contrast Control
Adding Grain
Toning
Printing
Glossary
Useful Web Sites
Index
Acknowledgments