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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. 5

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

Curves In Pt. 3 we looked at the Levels tool. Now let’s turn to Levels’ big sister: Curves. The Curves tool works well for colour photography but it is especially useful in B&W photography because it can be used to … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 3

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

Introduction to Layers It’s layers that separate Photoshop pros from the novices. The idea of layers is simple: if you stack, say, a copy of your image on top of your original image, and both are transparent, you can look … Continue reading →

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Silver Bullets Has Moved

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

Happy New Year to all! My blog, Silver Bullets, has a new home at genewilburn.com All the old posts, comments, and user logins can be found there. Cheers, Gene

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Classical Guitar

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Gene Wilburn

Against all probabilities, I decided, in my 68th year, to start learning classical guitar. I’ve played folk guitar for several decades, but I never really learned anything beyond picking patterns and chord changes because my playing was an accompaniment to … Continue reading →

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2011 in review

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Gene Wilburn

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading →

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End of Ringer

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Gene Wilburn

After watching through six episodes of Ringer I’ve decided to give it up. This doesn’t make me very happy because I really like Sarah Michelle Gellar, the star of the series, and I hoped to get into this new drama … Continue reading →

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Back to Film

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Gene Wilburn

When I gave up film to go 100% digital, I thought that was it. It’s not that I didn’t like film. It’s more I was on a simplification kick and with digital being so good now I thought I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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