If you love the power of black-and-white photography but have stumbled with developing a method to transform your finest images into compelling black-and-white art, this course will provide you with a foundational and predictable digital workflow to fulfill your vision.
Students in this intermediate photography workshop at The Morton Arboretum will discover a comprehensive and systematic approach to creating black-and-white masterworks from their images.
Over the course of five sessions and experimentation in the field, students will capture scenes that have full potential as monochrome images—and then master the step-by-step process to achieve your vision through:
- An understanding of your image’s histogram
- The exploration of the overall contrast range of the image as well as select elements within your scene
- The application of editing tools including dodging, burning, color filtration, and dedicated black-and-white editing instruments to hone your image to match your original vision
This workshop is appropriate for any photographer who is comfortable with the manual controls of a DSLR camera and with post-production software such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom.
This program meets in person at the Arboretum.
Instructor: Dan Pollack, photographer
Age: 16 and older
Course number: P360
