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The Art of Black & White Photography - Part 3

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 Creating Black & White Fine Art Photographs using Luminosity Masks Original Colour Image ( Just so you know where I am starting from.) Shot on Fujifilm X-T4 (RAW) with the Fujinon 23m f1.4 lens @ 5.6           Original black & white conversion   -   Edited version using Luminosity Masks Final cropped version edited using Luminosity Masks Wow. Where do we start with this one? Personally I like black & white photographs more than most colour images. Maybe that is because when I started my journey in photography back in 1970, shooting in black & white was the only way to go if we wanted to process our film and make the prints ourselves. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy editing and printing colour photographs but black & white is where it's at for me. The most difficult thing for people who never photographed in black & white is actually pre-visualizing what it is that we want to photograph. It is difficult because there are...
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PureRAW 5 - You just may want to revisit all of your favourite RAW files !

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DxO PureRAW 5.2.1 This software is absolutely by far the best RAW Denoising and Demosaicing piece of software on the market today. And this latest version includes processing Fujifilm's X-Trans Sensor.  This option is still in the beta stages but it works amazingly well. You can also share your opinion of your results with DxO if you like. Dare I say better than the other Raw processors on the market right now? Hummm - Let's see ... FULL STOP! DISCLAIMER !! DxO has asked me to write articles and create videos of their products. I have affiliate links and a discount code for their software which I will post at the end of this article. What does this mean? It means that I will make a small commission if any of you decide to make a purchase using my affiliate link. I would like you to download their trial software and spend some time working through your own images to really see if any of these products work for you. For those who do not know me, I have been involved in photograph...
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