Tag: black and white

PhotoActive 115: Bryan Jones on Why Color Doesn’t Exist
When Kirk bought his Leica Monochrom, I knew we'd get into more black-and-white content on the PhotoActive podcast, but this week we may have taken it too far. We welcome back retinal neuroscientist Bryan Jones as our guest to talk about why color doesn't even exist!

Watch Now: Editing Black and White Photos in Luminar 4
The replay of the webinar I presented today is online and free to view. Learn how to edit black and white photos using Luminar 4.

Webinar: Editing Black & White Photos in Luminar, Aug. 27
I'm doing another free Luminar webinar that covers editing black and white photos, on August 27. Join me!

Lightroom in Black and White
Converting a photo from color to black and white isn’t just a matter of reducing the color saturation to zero. Lightroom and Lightroom Classic offer several ways to go gray, from easy one-click options to manipulating each color value for distinctly different looks. In my latest article for CreativePro, I walk through the options for ...

Woods
No surprise, I’m depressed by the election result and think it portends terrible things for our country. There’s work to be done, art to be made, and a million tiny positive things we can do that will add up to repel darkness and hatred. “But the thing that got me through that moment, and any ...

Getty Cactus
I’m having a great holiday outside my usual haunts, this time in sunny (but surprisingly chilly, by Southern California standards) Los Angeles. I’ve had several opportunities to capture photos, which is reinvigorating that part of my brain that’s spent far too much time this autumn and winter in front of computer screens and not enough ...

Mud Lovers
We met up with some friends at Jubilee Farm for our annual pumpkin patch visit. Although the sun was shining and it was summer-warm, days of earlier rain made for lots of mud for our girls to play in (and get stuck in). Kids just can’t stay away from mud—and we didn’t discourage them! If ...

Middle Falls black-and-white
September and October are turning out to be extremely busy for me, work wise, so as a quick distraction/mental escape here’s another photo of Middle Falls near McCloud, California. (Here’s an earlier shot I posted.) The falls are easily accessible after a short hike, and I imagine the autumn colors are starting to look really ...

Frozen REI Falls
A little unexpected urban photography this afternoon. After running an errand at Seattle’s flagship REI store, I noticed that the waterfall leading to the entrance was partially frozen. I happened to have my DSLR and a GorillaPod tripod, so I spent some time shooting. Edited across the street at Espresso Vivace (where I warmed up!) ...