A feature I’ve written, Quick Guide to Photographing butterflies and moths, is appearing in the latest edition (May – issue no. 127) of Outdoor Photography magazine. This magazine, along with Black + White Photography, are two that I read regularly … Continue reading
Digital image capture has extended the scope of image making by enabling the photographer, unhampered by the prohibitive cost of film, to adopt a much more experimental way of working. A new world of possibilities has opened up by using … Continue reading
WHY WORK IN 16-BIT? JPEG is a lossy 8-bit format. An 8-bit image has 256 levels of brightness, from 0 (black) to 255 (white). A 16-bit RAW image has 65,536 levels of brightness or, put another way, 256 mini levels … Continue reading
I find this one of the simplest and most effective ways of converting a colour image to black and white. First, open your photo and then add a Channel Mixer adjustment layer by clicking on the icon at the bottom … Continue reading
