From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
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The vocabulary of black and white - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
The vocabulary of black and white
Let's take a closer look at the vocabulary of black and white. First, black and white. Black, the tone, is a measurable quantifiable phenomenon. It's not a subjective quality, and here is what I'm talking about. I'm wearing a black shirt. Behind me I've got these nice black shadows on the wall, and so far through this video, you've been watching it thinking these tones are black, but they're not, actually. They're merely a very, very dark gray. This is black. Let me show you that again. This is what you had been watching before, a very, very dark gray, which you may have thought was black until you saw the real black. As a black-and-white photographer, all you have to work with are shades of gray, so you typically want as many of them as you can get, because the more shades of gray you have, the easier it will be to separate different objects tonally in your image, and with more shades of gray, your image will have smoother gradients, which will make skies and shiny surfaces and…
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