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From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man
- By Vincent Versace
- Published Aug 28, 2012 by New Riders.
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Description
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 8" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 272
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-79402-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-79402-4
The ability to create a stunning black and white image remains one of photography’s greatest and most aspirational skills. Being able to "see" in black and white is an enviable capability, and a well-crafted black and white photograph remains the finest of the fine arts. Master photographer Vincent Versace has spent his career teaching the art of perception and how to translate it into extraordinary black and white images.
In From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man, Versace discusses digital black and white photography
The reason you must learn "almost every black and white conversion technique known to man" is because, depending on the image
Foreword by Dr. Richard Zakia, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
Afterword by John Fraser, Chef and Proprietor, Dovetail Restaurant, New York
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Black and White on All of
the Gray Areas of Black and White
Chapter 2: Variations on a Theme
Chapter 3: Defying Logic
Chapter 4: Defying Reason
Chapter 5: Somewhere Over the Grayscale
Chapter 6: The Black and White on the Zone System
Chapter 7: The Black and White on the Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer
Chapter 8: The Black and White on Silver Efex Pro 2
Last Words
Afterword
Index
Updates
Errata
Page 144
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