Article · Bob Woodfin Photography
Unusual Approach to High Key Black and White Portraits
By Bob Woodfin
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2015
About this lesson
Documents a specific high-key portrait recipe: white wardrobe against a white backdrop, deliberate half-to-one-stop overexposure, then conversion using an infrared-simulation filter in Color Efex Pro to reach a washed-out monochrome look.
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