Black and White Photography: Today and Yesterday

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• Join Serge as he introduces the class and takes a look back at what makes a great B&W photo work so well.
• Serge provides a brief introduction to Lightroom Classic, and how to use it to begin creating a B&W photo.
• Serge introduces the digital equivalent of burning and dodging in the darkroom.
• Building on the previous lesson, Serge dives deeper into techniques for using the Adjustment Brush when burning and Dodging.
• Covering a large area of the photo, Serge continues to demonstrate how you can achieve the levels of grayscale values you desire in your photo.
• Every valley has its own brush stroke, which provides a greater level of control.
• The Graduated Filter tool is a way to mimc using a graduated filter on your camera when taking the photo, but with a lot more control. The Radial Filter is similar to the Graduated Filter, but works within an oval shape.
• With the grayscale values adjusted for dramatic affect, Serge walks through his process for applying final retouching.
• Putting together all of the techniques covered so far, Serge takes you through the process on a single photo from beginning to end.

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