Posts Tagged ‘black and white’
It’s Not Black and White
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012Creating High Key Photographs
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
"High key" is a term used to denote photographs dominated by bright tones, with very low contrast between lights and shadows. The resulting image is very light overall, without any significant dark areas. Read more »
Photos from our Twitter family
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
A Still Life on My Windowsill
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Sometimes in your photography endeavors you can lose hope and feel that it’s all been done before. But even though the chances to interestingly capture a situation exceptional or mundane can be rare, there are still opportunities out there! One path to discovering them is to study inspiring pictures by the classics and the stories behind them. Today we’ll take a look at pictures from one such classic, right from Zoner Software’s home country—the Czech photographer Josef Sudek. Read more »
Creating Black-and-white Pictures
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
In the days of film photography, it was much more common to work with black-and-white photos (also called grayscale) than it is today. There were two reasons for this. One, black-and-white processing was simpler, so it had the same advantage that digital does today: it could be do-it-yourself. Two, black-and-white film was cheaper than color film. With those factors gone, why use black-and-white today? There are still reasons. Read more »
