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Exposing for black and white

Exposing for black and white - Photoshop Tutorial

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Exposing for black and white

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For the most part, when you're shooting black and white, all of your exposure decisions and your whole exposure theory will be just like what it is when you're shooting color. As you saw in our previous shooting movies, I was doing everything that I would normally do if I were shooting color. I was thinking about depth of field and aperture control, I was thinking about where I needed to focus to get the most depth of field, all of that kind of stuff that you do even when you're shooting color. With that said, if you are shooting an image that you're pretty sure it's going to be black and white, there might be one more thing that you want to think about, which is the slight exposure adjustment that's going to help you in your post-production, and we're going to take a look at the right now. We're looking at that in Photoshop rather than out in the field with a camera, because I really want us to be able to look at the histogram of an image. Yes, you can look at the histogram on a…

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