Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching
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Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos
Visual artist Cristian Maturana makes an interesting reflection regarding black and white photography as he says that “when we talk about black and white we suppress color and work only with the form, we leave out half of the information of a whole. It seems like a radical choice that forces us to rethink the image… We observe reality in color and then we eliminate it. It’s a brutally self-aware decision.”
In this course, Maturana will introduce you to the exciting world of black and white, then will go further into a slightly more technical aspect of the course: the development and retouching of your photographs. He’ll teach you how to control your camera’s tonal range, both in the capture and in the editing, and to manage the values in the development and postproduction software, until you reach the printed output, configuring the mid-range peripherals for optimized use in photography.
Cristian will introduce himself and tell you about his work as well as show you some artists and works that have influenced what he does.
You’ll start by analyzing the black and white works of some artists, and then learn to adjust the parameters of your camera. That way, you’ll optimally reproduce the tonal range of the photographed reference. You’ll learn to interpret the histogram and then Cristian will teach you his process to scan an analog photograph.
Next, you’ll see basic digital development settings using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom such as selective corrections, and color conversion to black and white, before going deeper into non-linear edition with Adobe Photoshop.
You’ll see how to control the tonal range that your printer can reproduce, learning to design a black and white grid, one of the tone patches, one of the medium grays, and the second grid of tone patches to be able to establish an output correction of mid-tones.
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