Photography and the Art of Seeing

 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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