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...

Creating Monotones, Duotones, Tritone and Quadtones Inglis Falls - Bruce Peninsula - Niagara Escarpment  Same image as above but with a very slight Tritone effect applied - Subtle but noticeable. This is a side-by-side comparison between the two. Further to my previous post (The Art of Black & White Photography - Part 1), I went and created a Duotone version of this waterfalls image. Well, to be more accurate, a Tritone, which makes use of three separate colours as opposed to a Duotone which makes use of two.  In Photoshop we also have the options for Monotone (one colour) and Quadtone (four colours) but this entire process is generally referred to as making Duotones - probably because that is the menu choice option in Photoshop and once you are in the Duotone colour space you can choose how which of the four colour options you want. Now, there are some similar methods of creating these Duotone-ish images in Photoshop that don't require you to switch colour models but in m...