Category Archives: Photography

Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 8

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Gene Wilburn

Plugins for Black and White After exploring the techniques introduced in this series, you may think, yeah, they’re effective, but it’s a lot of work to get to a finished image. Aren’t there any shortcuts? The happy answer is yes. … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 7

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Gene Wilburn

Vignetting for B&W Vignetting a photograph simply means making the edges and corners of an image darker or lighter than the rest of the image. With subtle vignetting, the treatment subdues the background, leading the eye to the foreground. Heavy … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 6

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Gene Wilburn

Layer Masks We covered Layers previously, now let’s dive into Layer Masks, one of the handiest tools in your digital darkroom toolkit. Let’s start with this colour photo, a still life taken at Benares House Museum, Mississauga, Ontario. Now let’s … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 4

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

What Makes a Good Digital Black & White Image? Let’s take a break from the technical side of B&W image processing to pursue the question of what makes a good digital B&W image, aside from its technical merits. The possibilities … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 2

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

In-Camera B&W So. Let’s get started. The simplest way to get into B&W is to set your digital camera’s shooting mode to BW, Monochrome, Monotone, or whatever it may be called on your particular camera model. The above menu is … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 1

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

Introduction In the earliest periods of its history, photography was about black-and-white, or monochrome, images in the form of photographic prints, tintypes, and daguerrotypes. Later, colour films were developed–both colour transparency and colour negative films–and colour and black-and-white film coexisted … Continue reading →

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Returning to Port

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Gene Wilburn

I feel I’ve been at sea, drifting on the currents and tides and going where the wind blows me. The past six months have been filled with reading and the study of math, but very little writing, with the exception … Continue reading →

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Updates

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Gene Wilburn

My friend and fellow camera enthusiast Ron Herron has published his first novel, Reichold Street, which “introduces a group of young, urban friends in the 1960s, and follows them from youthful neighborhood intrigue to family dysfunction, murder, suicide and madness. … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to Film (Again)

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Gene Wilburn

The last time I intended to go all digital, I hedged my bets and kept a Bessa T rangefinder and a few M-mount lenses for the Bessa. I also borrowed a Yashicamat 124 from my friend Jan and a Canon … Continue reading →

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Canon SX40 HS: Utility Camera

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Gene Wilburn

For some time I’ve been wanting a replacement for my old Canon S3 IS. I use my Panasonic Lumix G2 and lenses when I’m willing to carry a bag of gear around in order to get my best image quality. … Continue reading →

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