Lou, I use a gradient map adjustment layer. Select the third choice which is called black and white. Just add it to the top of the layer stack and turn it on every now and then to rest your eyes for

I have a question about eye adaptation (not sure if that is the correct term). When editing an image in Photoshop, the longer I spend staring at the monitor, the more my eye adapts to what I am

Gunnar I am referring to the event, as proven by the news item in the video below, that "proves" you don't need to have any skills more than a monkey to take a picture nowadays, to go along with

Paul: You've nailed me to the wall with surprising accuracy; guilty as charged. Managing people in front of the lens has never been my forté, and I admit, I haven't seen the results of the

Posted by: "Ron Kelly" ron@... ronkellyshadow Date: Thu Jul 7, 2011 3:06 am ((PDT)) "...Hmmm . . . the idea that a photographer can make better pictures than a monkey is getting

As a professional photographer who shot his first wedding using ONLY available/ambient light just last month (I spent many years using a Bronica 6x6 with flash/fill flash on ALL my wedding

Ron Kelly wrote: Ron, photographers are not the only ones with problems, to misquote the classic "there are an infinite number of monkeys out here wanting to talk to me about this script for a

Hmmm . . . the idea that a photographer can make better pictures than a monkey is getting harder and harder to fight. I was at a wedding recently, and very disturbed to notice that the photographer,

Does anyone else on the list think it's the collective at work bringing another Black Macaque photograph into the mainstream? I've seen the story here and there, but NBC Nightly News closed with it

john wrote: <That's not to say he didn't ever make a copy print for a particular project. Karsh did that with his pictures that were sent out to newspapers and magazines in the 1950's> just a

Hi Howard, This information is not correct. Adams like a lot of photographers would save a difficult print with areas of dodging and burning marked on it as well as paper grade, developer, and

Hi All As a professional photographer I started out studying Ansel Adams and adapting his teaching to something workable for me. Then I moved on to Hans-Carl Koch and working in the studio with

Jenő Dulovits, 1937, Lichtkontraste und ihre Überwindung - the book where he exposes the technique he developed in 1932, adding later the use of pinacryptol green as a desensitizer to control the

Hi to all! Ansel Adams came up with the Zone System when he taught at the Art Center College of Design where I graduated from. To understand it, we were assigned the dreaded "9 neg test." Basically,

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Dan writes: Adam's approach to photography was valuable in that it introduced a systematic way of thinking about the end results when you were planning the picture. The amount of control you could

I first came across this article from Sinar originally in the 80's. http://www.sinar.ch/en/infos/light-metering The lower density range papers (ie, newsprint) require even less range than 4 f/stops,

Thanks Mike. Dick Dougall

I seem to recall running across an article claiming that Adams used one other technique that does not appear to have become common knowledge. From my recollection, the author said that Adams produced

For the same reasons print density can' reach much more than 2.5D (glare and flare) sensor capture maintains sufficient linearity within 11 stops. Stacking of bracketed shots makes sense when sensor