The Perfect Senior Session From Start to Finish
The Perfect Senior Session From Start to Finish with Carlee Secor The perfect senior session is always a work in…
The Perfect Senior Session From Start to Finish with Carlee Secor The perfect senior session is always a work in…
One of the biggest complaints I hear from photographers is how Lightroom Classic is slow when they edit tons of images. While there are many reasons why this happens, there is certainly some responsibility on the user.
When modern-day photography was invented in 1839, the only option available was black & white. It wasn’t until Kodachrome came around in 1935 that color photography became more widely available and started gaining popularity.
I’d like to start by talking about a window. A broken window, specifically. A man by the name of Nathan Howe introduced this idea with his own story of a broken window, wherein a child threw a ball through his window and shattered it, so they boarded it up.
There is just something special about black & white imagery. Perhaps it’s the way we look back at the photographs of the masters like Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh and Ansel Adams to name a few, or perhaps it’s the way old movies have a specific feel to them as we watch them in monochrome.
Black & white photography has been around since the inception of photography, when the masters brought scenes of the west to life and changed the history of art forever.
Until recently, I rarely ever photographed in black & white, but this past year I decided to add a new genre of women’s intimate portraits to my session offerings.
It’s no secret that the key to good photography is balancing the seemingly endless array of options, styles, techniques, settings and so on.
In today's world, most of our images are captured digitally and remain digital. This is the modern way and there is absolutely nothing wrong with this.
As the saying goes, “There are many ways to do something in Photoshop.” This is accurate for most things, except when it comes to turning a color image to black & white.