I still take B&W pictures with my old film camera and that is what kept me from switching to digital. Are B&W photographs taken with a digital camera less beautiful then the ones we used to take with B&W film? If you have a camera that has a preset B&W, should you take the shots in this mode or in color and then convert in Photoshop? Do you need to use screw-on filters to achieve the classic B&W? What about infrared pictures taken with a digital camera?
These are just a few questions you will find answers to in this incredible photography course.
In this course you will rediscover your old love for B&W photography, or you will fall in love with it for the first time. What in the old days was considered a true art, the darkroom art, now is performed in Photoshop through a series of tools and filters. You will learn how to master these secrets and become an artist yourself!
Have you ever dreamed of selling your B&W photographs? Would you like to showcase them in an art gallery or simply on your living room walls? Now you can. After taking this class, not only will you discover how to post-process your digital color photographs into B&W or infrared but you will also learn how to showcase them at their best using frames, borders and vignetting.
After learning how to turn your color digital images into TRUE B&W, you will also learn how to improve their look using techniques such as dodging and burning, i.e., selectively darkening the sky or making a person’s eyes lighter, as if they were glowing.
In addition, you will learn how to add grain to mimic the look of a highly sensitive film such as ISO 1600. You will experiment with digital effects like the old Sabattier, solarization or the emboss effect, and the great Sepia toning look just to name a few.
Your portfolio will scream ART!
REQUIREMENTS:
Digital camera and Photoshop
To subscribe to this course click here:http://www.ppsop.com/bwis.aspx
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I am always seeking perfection in my attempt to tell a story in just one frame. As a man, I never really had much interest in reading text; to me the images that illustrate an article or book are the only important thing to focus on. Perhaps Mother Nature sought to compensate for my dyslexia by blessing me with a greater visual imagination.
As a viewer, I love to see how other photographers interpret reality, offering us their unique perspective and point of view to arouse our human curiosity and help us all to develop our creativity by using our imagination.
As an artist, I pay as much attention as possible to details, lighting, colors and texture and include the environment, where the subject of my photograph lives within the frame. I love using my wide-angle lens; I like to make a statement by enlarging a detail in my imagery by deforming the size of objects with this lens, making them appear larger than they really are. It is like underlining a sentence in a book, making it stronger, bolder.
As a photographer, I am obsessed with the idea of being able to tell a full story in one frame only. Too often our minds are influenced by what the narrator or the journalist is telling us; I want individual viewer to be less passive and able to create his or her own vision of reality. That‘s when I feel my mission has been accomplished, because my task is reporting the truth to viewers and at the same time leaving them enough space and freedom to create their own story through their imagination, with my imagery.
Danilo Piccioni
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