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The nature of grayscale images

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The nature of grayscale images

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- [Presenter] Finally, we're about to get to the really fun part of black and white photography. Yes, shooting is fun 'cause you get to go outside and travel around and that kind of thing. But when it comes to making a black and white image digitally, it's post-production where that happens, because of course we have to shoot in color, so we don't get to see our black and white image until we get in here and start manipulating it. And this is where I think you can get really, really creative. Before we do that though, we need to talk a little bit about color because of course, as black and white digital shooters, we are starting with a color image. I'm going to zoom in on this image here. So I've got this kind of reddish, tan brick here. And if I zoom in until I see individual pixels, we see... What you would expect to see in a digital image? This is a grid of pixels. Each one is a different color, and I can have millions of different colors. That's important to remember because I…

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