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It's a glorious time for black-and-white photography enthusiasts. Hot on the heels of Ricoh announcing the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome, Leica has announced a new monochrome camera, the Leica M11 Monochrom.
The M11 Monochrom is a digital rangefinder sporting a 60-megapixel full-frame backside-illuminated...
Earlier this year, photographer Sean Tucker started a portrait retouching tutorial video series on his YouTube channel. We've written about a couple of the portrait tutorials, including one on natural-looking skin and eye retouching, and a second video about how to utilize subtle dodging and burning techniques in...
When should you edit your photos in black and white instead of color? In the latest "Master your Craft" video for Adorama, Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge shares "five simple tips" to help you decide. Choosing to edit your photos in black and white can be creative or practical. There are numerous times when an image may work...
Wildlife photographer Steve Perry has been shooting more high-key and high-contrast black and white wildlife photos in the last few years. He finds that they're a good way to deal with otherwise challenging conditions.
Perry employs high-key black and white photos when the natural light and color are flat or bland....
The Phase One XT medium-format camera is purpose-built to deliver a streamlined, intuitive photographic experience. It doesn't come equipped with many frills or even autofocus, but the field camera-inspired design is significantly more portable...
In September 2019, Phase One announced its XT camera system. Like the Phase One XF camera, the Phase One XT camera works with Phase One's fantastic medium-format digital backs, including the most recent IQ4 digital back series. Unlike the Phase One XF,...
A good black and white landscape image isn't simply a matter of converting a good color landscape shot in your photo editor of choice. How does a black and white landscape image differ from a color photo? Black and white photos don't use color to draw in the viewer or lead a viewer through a scene but instead rely upon...
When creating a final black and white portrait, it is best to know you are going to end up with a monochrome image at the time of capture. This is because there are ways you can light your image which will make a stronger black and white image which may not have a similar impact on a color image.
As Daniel Norton...
In his latest video, join landscape photographer Nigel Danson as he travels to Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands to photograph an iconic waterfall and produce a black and white print.
In the video below, Danson runs us through various compositions and discusses his thought process, including an excellent illustration...
Black and white photography is far more than simply lowering the saturation of your images. In film days, you could use different filters on your lens to create different looks to your black and white images, making certain colors brighter or darker. With digital photography, it’s much simpler, with many photo editors...
Creating a powerful black and white image is not as simple as removing the color in an image, but rather requires a more precise, fine-tuned approach. Within different image editors, there are varied ways to create black and white conversions. In Capture One, a powerful raw image editor, there are numerous tools you can...
There are times when I think an image will look really good when converted to black and white. In Anthony Morganti's newest video, he tries to address the topic. How can you know when an image will look better in black and white?
One of the more effective ways to identify a potentially good black and white image is to...
Photographer Steve O'Nions found a derelict slate works building in a remote area in Wales and the scene immediately struck him as a viable candidate for shooting with a pinhole camera. That's exactly what O'Nions did. He used a Zero Image 2000 pinhole camera with Fomapan 100 classic film. Let's join him behind the...
With as much versatility as Photoshop offers, it should come as no surprise that there are almost always a wide variety of ways to accomplish any particular task or image edit. Black and white conversions are no different. YouTube user PiXimperfect recently published a video about making black and white conversions using...
Tutvid’s Nathaniel Dodson produces many excellent video tutorials and his latest will be particularly appealing to Lightroom users and fans of black and white photography. Dodson’s video, seen below, shows three techniques you can use when creating black and white images in Adobe Lightroom.
The first way to create...
Phase One has announced the new IQ3 100MP Achromatic, a 101-megapixel digital back and the world’s highest-megapixel achromatic digital back. The camera utilizes a new CMOS sensor design which offers a maximum ISO of 51,200, which is an unprecedented ISO limit for a medium format digital back.
The IQ3 100MP Achromatic...
Started in 1996, MaxMax modifies a wide variety of cameras for specialized photography such as ultraviolet-visible-IR, IR, monochrome, UV monochrome and more. For the first time ever, they are offering modified monochrome Fujifilm cameras. Their first two offerings are the Fuji X-Pro1 and X100S.
While the modified...
Do you love black and white photography? Want to learn more about the medium, see inspirational imagery, and get great ideas for your next monochromatic artwork? If so, our good friend Chris Gampat -- better known on the web as The Phoblographer -- has a project that will likely be of interest to you. (And he needs...
Can we ever be truly objective in our photography? Does photography objectify the suffering that it depicts? Check out our interview with award-winning photographer Ben Lowy for answers to these and other tough questions at the heart of photojournalism.
In 1879, the photography company we now know as Ilford was created. Since then, it’s gone through a number of owners and taken many strides to keep film photography going forward and alive. Today, yet another change is happening behind the scenes at Ilford.
Pemberstone Ventures Ltd. recently announced it has successfully acquired Harman Technology...