Michael Freeman – How Gray Will a Color Be?
November 15, 2011 by Manfrotto
Filed under Beyond the Basics, Black & White
Several weeks ago I wrote about the relatively new and excellent ways of converting a color image digitally into black and white. The original doesn’t even need to be digital – a scanned transparency will do fine. There’s quite a bit of technical stuff to go into, and at the end of that article, Save [...]
Michael Freeman: Save the Shot by Throwing Out the Color
October 18, 2011 by Manfrotto
Filed under Beyond the Basics, Black & White
There was a time — film-only time, of course — when you had to choose physically and in advance between shooting in color or in black and white. The closest you could get to flexibility was a second camera body so that you had both around your neck. More than that, you had to think [...]
Michael Freeman: Graphic and High Key
October 14, 2011 by Manfrotto
Filed under Beyond the Basics, Black & White
Key in imagery is as it is in music — the scale of tones for any one image. High-key means generally bright, low-key generally dark, though there are many variations within these. While there is often no choice for the photographer, and you simply have the tonal range that confronts you, there are situations when [...]
