Hypocam is a free, dedicated black and white photography app for both iOS and Android smartphones. It’s simple and straight forward to use — with minimal fuss — and takes great images you can share quickly and easily on social media. I especially like the high contrast, almost grungy look
Do your images sometimes lack punch or a “WOW” effect? Are you looking for easy ways to fix it? This article is for you! Here’s how to simply create powerful black & white images. How to choose the right image Here are a couple of things to look for when
My husband frequently chides me for not editing tightly enough, of hanging on to image files that I “will never use and never show.” There is some truth to this. I have no problem doing the first pass, throwing out clear mistakes and duplicates. After that, it gets a LOT
It can be overwhelming to arrive at a beautiful landscape to make pictures, or to a portrait shoot and be faced with making great pictures on demand. When I make portraits for a client, I have to deliver or there’s no food on the table — how’s that for pressure?
Black and white imagery is the classic look for photography. Stripping away color can make an image timeless and focus on the subject in an elegant way. It’s actually quite easy to turn and image to monochrome. Some are better than others, but each have their place. Let’s talk. Make
You know the expression, you can have it quick, right or cheap but not all three? Let’s chat about making black and white conversions using Photoshop. All of these methods are going to utilize Photoshop’s Adjustment Layers. Each one is faster than the next with more time to create better
Want to bring out the most of your action shots? Here are five tips to edit badass sports portraits to realize with any software.
When you make a picture with a digital camera, even if the camera is set to black and white, it records the picture in color and then converts it to black and white (unless you use Leica’s M camera, which only shoots in monochrome). And even if you shoot with
I feel like this topic is one that can be debated from here to eternity. It’s a fun discussion where everyone is right. Which has more emotion, black and white photographs or color photographs? I wanted to bring this up because while testing ColouriseSG for a video (below) I chose
Great Glamour Starts with Light but Finishes with Luminosity One of the concepts I stress most with my students is that photography is all about the play of lights and darks; tonal value is more important than color! I find that, most of the time, the path to a great
Sometimes we get stuck with a plain background that we’d have preferred to be more interesting. The solution is often to dress it up in post I want to share with you the post process I went through in one of my past workshops and introduce a technique for creating
Why I love Instagram & Hipstamatic Like every photographer nowadays, I have been shooting with my iPhone more—it has virtually replaced the pocket point & shoot! The one camera that is always with me, it has come to represent the future of photography technology, and it cannot be ignored. More
