While many photographers who prefer black-and-white images will convert their color originals in Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, if you shoot RAW (and you SHOULD shoot RAW) you may want to do it in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This is especially true if you’re doing portrait or other kinds of photography under consistent lighting conditions. One of […]
Always Calibrate Your Monitor If You Want Beautiful B&W Prints
If you’re printing black & white photos before calibrating your monitor, you’re throwing money away. By Mason Resnick Are you playing monitor roulette? That’s the game where you rely on your monitor to determine whether the photo you’re working on will look as nice in print as it does on your screen. And then, you […]
Does Steve Rosenbaum Dream In Infrared?
Photos by Steve Rosenbaum When Kodak Infrared black-and-white film went the way of the Dodo* in 2007, Steve Rosenbaum, a long-time infrared photography enthusiast, didn’t despair. He found solace in his tricked-up digital camera, and kept shooting. Infrared is light that is at the far edge of the spectrum of visible light, and beyond. It creates a […]
How Street Photography Transformed Orna Naor’s World
She went from housewife and mom to world renowned street photographer in 3 years. But Orna Naor has an angle. Tel Aviv-based photographer Orna Naor picked up photography 3 years ago, after raising a family, and is now a rising star in the world of street photography. We asked her about her approach, and how […]