1. Introduction
Welcome
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Why black and white?
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Suggested prerequisites
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Using the exercise files
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2. What Is Black-and-White Photography?
Is it really black and white?
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How gray corresponds to color
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The medium of black and white
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The vocabulary of black and white
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The physiology of black and white
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How a camera's image sensor captures an image
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3. Shooting in Black and White
Preparing the camera
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Light revisited
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Seeing in black and white
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Taking a black-and-white expedition
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Finding and shooting a black-and-white image
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Shooting a tone-based subject
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Exposing for black and white
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4. Black-and-White Post-Production
The nature of grayscale images
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Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS5
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More about the Black & White dialog box
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Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers
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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw
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Making an advanced tonal correction
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Doing more tonal corrections
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Calming down highlights
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Vignetting
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The trestle images
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Handling tricky skies
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Doing a selective black-and-white conversion
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Toning
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Split-toning
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High-key and low-key images
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Diffusion
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Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in
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5. Printing in Black and White
Selecting a printer
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Preparing the image for print
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Configuring the Print dialog
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Evaluating a print
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Ex_Files_FoP_BW.zip
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