THE BLACK & WHITE TRADITION

Digital photography has very clearly changed the way we can shoot in black and white, and it is perfectly obvious that by far the most important practical difference between a sensor and film is that now you can have both color and monochrome from the same shot. There is no prior choice to be made, no decision to load black-and-white film rather than color film before setting out.

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As a result, most of what is written and discussed about digital black and white focuses on the practicalities—how to convert, how to adjust channels in order to alter the brightness of different colors as they appear in grayscale, how to ...

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