From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man

Last Words: From There to Here—Where We Are on the RGB Road

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

—Pablo Picasso

I have spent a great deal of time discussing the techniques for taking a color image on the journey to becoming a chromatic grayscale one. The techniques in this book are the bricks of the RGB road that you walk on your path of creative expression. But technique does not define the photograph, the photographer does. The final image is a reflection of a moment in time that was so important that it compelled the photographer to capture it.

There is no such thing as the perfect photograph; the perfect photograph is an ...