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Far from spelling the end of black-and-white photography, digital techniques have made many creative processes easier - this is the book that helps devotees of black-and-white photography move into the digital age.The digital revolution has made the experience of producing prints quicker and cleaner, but tends to assume that you are always dealing with colour photographs. This book explains how black-and-white photography is not only possible using digital technology but actually allows greater flexibility and creativity than ever before. It covers the basics of scanning, manipulation and printing, as well as demonstrating some of the more advanced techniques that can be achieved in the digital darkroom.
About the Author
Tony Worobiec is the author of several photography books including Ghosts in the Wilderness: Abandoned America, a collection of his own fine art black-and-white photographs. He lives in Dorset. Ray Spence is a photographer, teacher and author and recent recipient of the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Print Exhibition Gold Award.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although this is a very attractively produced book, with good illustrative images, I was disappointed in the text, much of which seems rather vague and lacking precision. The book addresses monochrome printing from the perspective of a darkroom worker who now wants to move to digital, and learn the photoshop techniques to replicate traditional darkroom processes.
This may benefit someone just getting into digital, but for an experienced digital worker I feel this is a flawed approach which can lead to a rather narrow view of the possibilities. In addition, many of the techniques are described merely in principle with too much general language (e.g. ..using a large brush..) describing the how, and not enough discussion of why. Also the section on colour to mono conversion, which really should be the core of the book, is the least satisfying.
This may benefit someone just getting into digital, but for an experienced digital worker I feel this is a flawed approach which can lead to a rather narrow view of the possibilities. In addition, many of the techniques are described merely in principle with too much general language (e.g. ..using a large brush..) describing the how, and not enough discussion of why. Also the section on colour to mono conversion, which really should be the core of the book, is the least satisfying.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I pre-ordered this book, even though I was slightly concerned, from the publishers synopsis, that this might be just another book bemoaning the move from film to digital. It's not. This is a superb twenty first century, forward-looking technique reference book, easy to read and follow. Needless to say the images are gorgeous. If you like your third millenium photographic technology, and yet, the look of 'black and white' imagery, past, present and future, then this is the book for you. One of the very best books in my photographic library! My only gripe is the lack of handsome, muscular male nudes to balance the female ones......
Very highly recommended - I will be looking out for more technique books by these authors.
Very highly recommended - I will be looking out for more technique books by these authors.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Another book that assumes everyone uses Photoshop, which is clearly not the case. All the instructions here relate specifically to Photoshop and no attempt is made to accomodate other image manipulation programs. If you are new to digital printing but don't have Photoshop, look elsewhere as this book will be of no help. If you have some other image manipulation program and are experienced in using it, you may be able to translate the instructions given here to relate to your own software - but if you are experienced enough to do that, there's little in this book that is likely to be new to you.
The whole book is very lightweight. It tries to cover too much and in doing so fails to cover anything in much detail. A lot of what is here is not specific to black and white but could be equally applied to colour and is probably covered better in other books on digital printing. The sections on alternative printing should have been left out. Changing the colour/contrast etc. of a digital image doesn't make a cyanotype or any other type of alternative print. If that's your area of interest, try making some genuine alternative prints.
The areas that this book could have excelled in, such as colour to black and white conversion and dealing with the problems of printing of black and white images, fall far short of what I was hoping for. For me, as a reasonably experienced digital printer looking for more information relating specifically to black and white printing, this book is a complete waste of time.
The whole book is very lightweight. It tries to cover too much and in doing so fails to cover anything in much detail. A lot of what is here is not specific to black and white but could be equally applied to colour and is probably covered better in other books on digital printing. The sections on alternative printing should have been left out. Changing the colour/contrast etc. of a digital image doesn't make a cyanotype or any other type of alternative print. If that's your area of interest, try making some genuine alternative prints.
The areas that this book could have excelled in, such as colour to black and white conversion and dealing with the problems of printing of black and white images, fall far short of what I was hoping for. For me, as a reasonably experienced digital printer looking for more information relating specifically to black and white printing, this book is a complete waste of time.
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Black and White Photography in a Digital Age
I liked this book very much, it explained things in an easy manner which is what a beginner needs. I am looking forward to following it and printing off some nice work
Published 12 months ago by popples
Excellent
This book is a must for any photographer interested in quality monochrome work, full of useful information written in a way that is is easy to understand.
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by S. Brown
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I like this guys work, have bought Digital Artist also, another good book, you do need to know a bit about photoshop for some of his ideas, thats the only reason I gave it a 4*,... Read more
Published on 20 May 2009 by Lesley Ann
Excellent Book
This an excellent book, well laid out and easy to follow. I looked at several books on this subject and this is the one I bought. Read more
Published on 3 July 2008 by Herbie
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