Category — B&W

i love shadow photos.

Shadow House

Vesak 3 steps one bow

After 12 lotus, now is an exhibition titled 12 Years of Black and White Photography by Desmond Teo, an avid black and white photographer. He is also an instructor at SAFRA photoclub and  conducts the monochrome class at a regular basis.

Michelle , Deep in thought

Just to share one of my favorite workflow for Black & White conversion.

Greg Gorman’s Photoshop CS Recipe for Black and White Conversion

1. Open a color image in Photoshop in either 8 bit or preferably (in Photoshop CS) 16 bit.
2. Under the Image menu, choose Mode > Lab.
3. Click (Highlight) the Lightness Channel.
4. Under the Image menu, choose Mode > Grayscale (discard color information).
5. Command/Control Click on the Gray Channel (to load the selection).
6. Under the Select Menu, choose Image > Inverse.
7. Under the Image menu, choose Mode > RGB Color.
8. In the Adjustment Layers Palette choose Solid Color.
9. Select a color from the Color Picker or from the Swatches Palette (which I prefer).Your choice of color should be based on the tonal range you wish to see in your final B&W.
10. . Go to your Layers Palette and change your Blending Mode to Multiply.
    Because your Color Fill is on a Layer you may adjust the opacity to dial back the color to your desire.

In addition (IMPORTANT), you may add a Curves or Levels Adjustment to achieve the desired result.
Should you wish to change the color of your B&W “Duotone” simply double click the color fill and reselect.