The Art of Black & White Photography - Part 1

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 So I was up early this morning, for one reason or another, and I decided to hunt through a randomly chosen folder from way back in time, 2007 to be exact, and I came across some images taken on a trip up to Tobermory.


This particular image is a combination of 3 hand held vertical shots to test out Photoshop's Photomerge feature.

Using this technique allowed me to create a larger image that I cropped square. As I was going through all of this I started to think that it might look good in black & white.

Now, I know there are as many ways to convert a colour image into greyscale as there are photographers out there, well almost, converting images. This is not the topic of this post but will be in a later post.
I am also thinking of toning this black & white print digitally in a somewhat similar fashion that Ansel Adams did in the wet darkroom. Ansel Adams put his gallery prints through a selenium toning bath process as a final touch.

If you are seriously interested in learning more about this digital toning process, drop me a line.

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