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Black and White Photography Field Guide
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Black and White Photography Field Guide

by Michael Freeman
July 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
192 pages
6h 21m
English
Routledge
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CREATIVE CHOICES

Possibly the greatest difference between photographing in color and photographing in black and white is in expression. There are, of course, all kinds of ways of treating color, made all the easier with the range of software processing available, but by far the most accepted standard is the aim for “realism.”

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Without getting philosophical about what realism means in the context of photography, the normal aims of most people’s color photography are to get a result which in terms of image quality are faithful to the original scene. Black and white begins with quite a different premise, as we’ve seen. It does not, cannot, pretend ...

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ISBN: 9780415833516