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Advanced Black & White Digital Photography (A Lark Photography Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Beardsworth
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 23373
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1600592104
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.3
EAN: 9781600592102
ASIN: 1600592104
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
Digital photographers can now attain the enduring beauty of black-and-white photography in their own work! There’s more to monochrome than just discarding the color in Photoshop, but many books simply treat it as an afterthought. Not this one! John Beardsworth teaches every major method of making a color picture black and white, and explains what kind of images are best, and why. Both ambitious newcomers and advanced enthusiasts will learn how to achieve the richest tonal depth and balance, use black and white to interpret the subject for the viewer, reproduce historic and darkroom processes, add creative and special effects, and produce exhibition-quality prints.
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Great insights to mastering B&W April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent explanations and examples - highly suggest it for those interested in mastering B&W digital photos!
 Black & White photography March 26, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book can be good for beginers but otherwise disapointing if you are looking for ways to better your work.
A good dtarting point March 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a great starting point for learning digital B&W conversions. It starts out with a little history and terminology of the B&W world, then dives into the different ways you can achieve this effect in Photoshop CS2, then in how to use the new B&W conversion tool in CS3. It does have a small section on Lightroom as well, but since Lightroom was new at the time of printing, this section is very thin.
I don't think the book is the definitive book for digital B&W, but I have found it very useful. I will say you will get more out of this book if you have CS3.
 Did not meet expectations February 15, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Could be that as a novice photographer, my expectations were unrealistic. Was hoping to get ideas on how to take better b/w photo's. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to "Advanced" printed on the cover.
Not what I had hoped for. February 11, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book has some good points and techniques which will aid any photographer in converting digital color photographs to workable B&W. With that being said, let the buyer beware; you will have to read between the lines (frequently) and make many of your own assumptions in order to really get to the bottom of what this author is trying to convey in the book.
I am extremely disappointed with the numurous typo's and vocabulary errors in the book. Also extremely disappointing are the assumptions made (by the author) as to the readers knowledge of Photoshop and being very experienced at using Photoshop myself, I am constantly shaking my head in dismay at the author's obvious lack of knowledge with Photoshop. His attempts to describe how to accomplish a task or technique using Photoshop many times lack accuracy and also lack adaquate description for even an advanced user to know what he is trying to convey.
Bottom line, if you are inexperienced using Photoshop, don't buy this book. If you have experience using Photoshop, then be prepared to accept the fact that you probably have more experience than the author of this book and undoubtedly you too will notice the many inconsistency's and errors. I could give many examples, but what I am referring to are very evident through out the book.
My general consensus is that this was a quick throw together book, with no real proof editing, and no real concern for accuracy and worse of all, written by someone with no real writing skills. I will not buy another book written by this author.
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