Article · Rich Perspective
Thinking in Black and White
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2022
About this lesson
Argues for previsualizing tone at the moment of capture rather than after the fact, tracing the idea back to Ansel Adams' use of colored lens filters to preview how colors would convert to grey values on orthochromatic and panchromatic film.
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