Black and White: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Course details

This "Black and White Photography Tips video is part of Peachpit's popular Snapshots to Great Shots series. In this high-quality video, photographer John Batdorff invites you into the studio and on location to demonstrate how to master the fundamentals of composition, light, texture and contrast. You'll learn black and white photography tips and techniques that will make your portraits, landscapes and action shots amazing.

Batdorff starts with shooting basics and goes on to cover all the key camera features that affect your image, including the shutter speed's ability to freeze and convey motion, as well as aperture's direct correlation with depth of field.

Once you've captured those shots, John will take you step-by-step through color conversion and post-processing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, showing you effective enhancements with Nik Silver Efex Pro software that will make your black and white images truly stand out.

Take this course and learn exclusive black and white photography tips and tricks.