This is the first tutorial where someone speaks of values and percentages. Most only tell you to adjust sliders. Thank you for going deeper into B&W. I look forward to seeing your other tutorials.
There are many great photographers, but not so great at teaching . And there are many great teachers, but not so great at photography. You my bro, are the rare specimen of a great craftsman, and also a great teacher. Love it every time. Always learn something new and so concise and through. While you where explaining luminosity, and the relevance that has to black and white, my mind went back years to the many many photos I basically trashed with amateurish edits. But wow did I just learn so much in a matter of minutes. Keep doing what your doing. So glad to have access to this channel.
I’m a intermediate photographer, but wow. I did not realize about those color that have different effects on grayscale luminance. Great information and I learn something new today. :)
This was awesome. I see 'photographers' take pictures and turn them B&W thinking they are great photographs. You can tell between a person who understands what makes a great B&W photo and a person who just use a slider to turn the image B&W.
Karl you are a fantastic teacher these tutorials are clear and concise. I have worked mostly through trail and error, so its brilliant getting the theory on a wide rage of subjects. once again thank you, so someone who can't afford the classes right now your channel is a vital resource.
I prefer to do my B&W conversions in Camera Raw, which basically has the same options as the B&W layer method you showed. I shoot live music in small venues so it's usually cheap RGB LED lights, invariably using just one colour, most often red or blue, or sometimes both together. It's like shooting colour with a red filter on the lens, but worse. But it's a great challenge, and the results are often good to great.
20 YEARS AGO: To make black-and-white photos, load your camera with black-and-white film. TODAY: To make black-and-white photos, [12 minutes of detailed technical explanation.] Great info, though... PS - cool shirt!
Your free course is outstanding. I’ve shared it a couple of times. My son is getting into photography and I was heavily into when I was younger. I’ve watched them all and they are great for beginners like my son. He’s watching it all at the moment. Again, thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you - am guessing more information and detail in the Classes. Though my brain did start hurting partway through your detailed explanation, I will be going through Photoshop to do my conversions from now on. Excellent advice as always.
Hi PJ, what was that due too? Do you only have rod cells or damaged cone cells. I do a lot of personal research on human vision and very interested to hear your story. Feel free to message me through the email on my commercial site www.karltaylor.com cheers Karl.
Is this better then using the black and white mode of the camera? I've heard a lot of people say get the photo right "in camera" and minimize post, but that was in a different context and not about black and white. I have a canon rebel T8i.
Hi Karl 👋 I had a question, would you be very kind if you could explain it to me? I had a Chinese flash and I was photographing with it. After a while, I bought a siros 800L, but I did not see any difference in light. Can you explain the difference between these two?
Yes I can, the output from any flash tube will be very similar but the consistency of exposure may vary dramatically when you change power, the next thing is how fast the duration of the flash will be. The Siros has a very fast flash duration making it suitable for freezing many subjects such as moving fashion, flying liquids etc. Finally it comes down to durability, how long is the thing going to last and how much it can be kicked about and still work. Generally speaking cheaper stuff has to be made from cheaper plastics, metals and components which ultimately means they will wear out more quickly.
@@VisualEducationStudio So what is the difference between siros and Move?In terms of flash speed, all Chinese flashes have a good speed, but there is a lot of difference in the quality of light in the broncolor photos in the ads and of course in your work, which I did not find in my siros, but maybe I dont know.When I see photos taken with a broncolor, the color of the photos is different from other flashes can you explain.Sorry to take your time but I want to buy a flash move and you know it's too expensive Finally, the flash speed is not very important to me, but the quality of the light is very important
Yes it absolutely is. But if you go straight for 255 rather than 254 then you wouldn't know if you were already half a stop or more beyond and then you risk other problems so it's far better to bring it into to 254 as the starting point as this is about 1/30th of an fstop below pure white.
