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Exposing for black and white

Exposing for black and white - Photoshop Tutorial

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Exposing for black and white

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- [Instructor] Most of the time, when you are exposing with the idea of a black and white final result, your goal is to have a big distribution of a lot of different tones. This image has some of everything. It's got some true black in it. It's got some true white in it, and it's got hopefully most of the other shades of gray. Having lots of midtone data, having a big sprout of tones across that middle part of the histogram will give you a real silvery look in your print. That classical black and white look. Here's another example where I was certain to try to not underexpose the black so much that I lost the darkest midtones and not overexpose the white bit so much that I lost the lightest. So I've got as much as possible, I'm trying to get every possible tone of gray that was in this scene so that I get this really rich tapestry of grays that hopefully will look real silvery when I print them. The eye loves contrast. It loves detecting all of those different variations. Even in…

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