Foundations of Photography: Black and White

- Welcome to foundations of photography, black and white. If you're here, I can only assume it's because you have an interest in black and white photography. Which is great, because we're gonna cover it all. From seeing to shooting to processing. In this course, we're going to discuss why you might want to shoot black and white. We're going to study what makes good black and white subject matter. We're going to explore how to see in black and white. And we're gonna cover some exposure strategies that will help you get black and white captures that will afford you all the editability you need when you get into post production.

Once our shooting is over, we'll launch Photoshop and get to work with the process of converting our images to grayscale. And finessing them into great black and white images. Grayscale conversion, editing, toning, sharpening, and stylizing will all be covered before we head on to some tips on printing and output. Along the way, we'll take a look at some black and white plugins and we'll discuss how to evaluate your final output, and how to improve it if you find it lacking. For those who are curious as to why anyone would bother with black and white images when we have color, there should be some interesting surprises for you ahead as we review the vocabulary of black and white.

And learn that very often, a black and white image is far more effective than a color image. So let's get ready to explore foundations of photography, black and white.