Join Ben Long for an in-depth discussion in this video Vignetting, part of Photography Foundations: Black and White.
A vignette is often something that you try to avoid.…A vignette is a darkening in the corners, and a lot of times lenses will…inherently produce a vignetting, particularly at wide angles.…At other times vignetting is something that you want to encourage, or add, and so…you choose a lens with a vignette, or you do what we're going to do and add a…vignette in Photoshop.…A darkening in the corners can help bring more attention to the center of an…image, to the subject of your image, and it's very easy to apply in Photoshop.…In the Exercises folder for this movie, there is a Photoshop document…called vignette me.…
Go ahead and open it up, and you'll see this massively layered…Photoshop document.…Rather than doing all the edits, I'm just going to quickly show you what I did.…I started with this color image and then converted it to black and white.…I didn't do much, as you can see here.…This is pretty much the default recipe.…There's not a lot of color in this image that needs to be altered.…The sky, it was raining,…
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6/29/2011- Why shoot in black and white
- How to recognize good black-and-white subject matter
- Preparing the camera
- Shooting a tone-based subject
- Exposing for black and white
- Understanding grayscale
- Converting from color to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS5
- Converting to black and white in Camera Raw
- Vignetting
- Toning and split-toning
- Comparing high key versus low key images
- Preparing a black and white image for print
Skill Level Intermediate
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1. Introduction
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Welcome1m 20s
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Why black and white?5m 12s
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2. What Is Black-and-White Photography?
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3. Shooting in Black and White
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Preparing the camera3m 34s
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Light revisited6m 3s
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Seeing in black and white2m 21s
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Exposing for black and white6m 17s
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4. Black-and-White Post-Production
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Doing more tonal corrections14m 6s
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Calming down highlights10m 4s
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Vignetting8m 58s
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The trestle images2m 39s
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Handling tricky skies2m 43s
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Toning1m 19s
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Split-toning2m 19s
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High-key and low-key images2m 31s
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Diffusion4m 40s
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5. Printing in Black and White
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Selecting a printer5m 17s
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Evaluating a print5m 17s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye43s
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