Photography Foundations: Black and White

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Free Online Course: Photography Foundations: Black and White provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Photography Foundations: Black and White is taught by Ben Long.

Overview
  • Ben Long shares strategies for capturing the best black and white images and techniques for converting to black and white in Photoshop.

Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Why black and white?
    • Suggested prerequisites
    • Using the exercise files
    2. What Is Black-and-White Photography?
    • Is it really black and white?
    • How gray corresponds to color
    • The medium of black and white
    • The vocabulary of black and white
    • The physiology of black and white
    • How a camera's image sensor captures an image
    3. Shooting in Black and White
    • Preparing the camera
    • Light revisited
    • Seeing in black and white
    • Taking a black-and-white expedition
    • Finding and shooting a black-and-white image
    • Shooting a tone-based subject
    • Exposing for black and white
    4. Black-and-White Post-Production
    • The nature of grayscale images
    • Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS5
    • More about the Black & White dialog box
    • Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers
    • Converting to black and white in Camera Raw
    • Making an advanced tonal correction
    • Doing more tonal corrections
    • Calming down highlights
    • Vignetting
    • The trestle images
    • Handling tricky skies
    • Doing a selective black-and-white conversion
    • Toning
    • Split-toning
    • High-key and low-key images
    • Diffusion
    • Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in
    5. Printing in Black and White
    • Selecting a printer
    • Preparing the image for print
    • Configuring the Print dialog
    • Evaluating a print
    Conclusion
    • Goodbye