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Editing a Black and White Photo in Adobe Lightroom

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Back in the film days, fixing a photo usually was as simple as involving burning and dodging specific areas. For the most part, that’s still what many photographers do. But it can get more involved with digital photography. Converting an image to black and white brings it back to its simple nature and gives the photographer the ability to really fine tune an image to look just the way that they want it to.

And trust me, it’s much easier than you’d think. 

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(NSFW) Beauty in Simplicity: an Ode to Minimal Black and White Nudes

All images by Lachlan Walker. Used with permission. Also please remember to .

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My name is Lachlan Walker, I’m a 23 year old photographer from Melbourne, Australia. Photography is omething relatively new for me. 

Up until 2 and a half years ago I’d never touched a camera in my life. It was only when I met my girlfriend, who had always had a passion for photography, that I first picked up a camera. It was an old Nikon D3000, not much good on a technical level, but it was enough to spark my interest. A few months later I purchased my first camera of my own, a Canon AE-1 Program. 

This was the camera that made me fall in love with photography in a big way. 

This was also the camera that gave me such an appreciation of black and white photography. 

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Review: MacPhun Tonality

Nik Software is now free, but there are lots of other options that can help you create better black and white images for a little bit of money. Take for example: consider it the closest thing to blending Adobe Lightroom, RNI Films, and Instagram. Designed for mostly enthusiasts, Tonality had some of the same people working on it that used to produce Nik Software’s products. However, it also slates itself in a spot where it makes sense for the serious photographer since it can also function as a plugin for Lightroom and Photoshop.

If you’re using Adobe Lightroom, then you’ll want to right click an image, and choose to edit it in Tonality CK if you purchased the MacPhun Creative Kit. Otherwise just Tonality works fine. Lightroom will copy the file, create a TIFF (if you choose that, and I strongly suggest that you do) and then open up Tonality for you.

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Enter to Win Subscriptions to La Noir Image

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La Noir Image is teaming up with PhotoCrowd to give away two subscriptions to the magazine when it finally becomes a reality.

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Love: Exploring A Relationship in Monochrome

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“I wanted to show the relationship dynamic of a blue collar man and his white collar girl.” says photographer Nathan Hostetter when he emailed La Noir Image to showcase his project. This relationship isn’t a typical one though. 

 "The male subject comes from the working class and is adjusting to his new upscale life, and the woman is used to getting her way. The series reflects on the man alone, and the thoughts and emotions of two people that love each other, even if they don’t always understand one another.“ 

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InfraRed Sox

“In his images from an infrared converted camera, players’ uniform numbers and names seemingly disappear, giving a fresh slate to the upcoming season.”

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10 Black and White Instagram Photographers Under 10K Followers You Should Check Out Now

Those of us who embrace the purist mentality that monochromatic images lend themselves to often end up applying it to all of our work. Indeed, black and white simplifies a scene and makes the human mind pay attention to nothing else but the shapes in a scene. Sometimes it’s tough to embrace; but with a little bit of inspiration, you’ll want to get out there and document the world in nothing else but black, white and all the shades in between. 

To get you inspired, here are 10 photographers mostly shooting black and white with followings of under 10k to check out. Also be sure to follow

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Black and White Isn’t a Crutch; the Color is Just Drab

La Noir Image is currently seeking funding on to take our next step as a business. For less than the cost of your weekly coffee budget, you can get a year’s worth of inspiration sent to you every month.

“Make it a black and white!”

That’s the thought that so many photographer starting out have when they can’t figure out a way to make their images better in the editing process. The truth is that yes it’s easy: black and white makes a lot of images that looked terrible in color look better immediately just through the monochrome process. 

But why does it do this?

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Entering Stage Two of La Noir Image

As La Noir Image moves forward as a business, we’re proud to officially announce our brand new to fund stage two of the business.

La Noir Image is looking to evolve; and in order to do so we need to become quite a bit more interactive. This interactivity can only be delivered through an e-magzine; and so we’re looking to create an app with subscription, interactivity, etc. We’re asking for $35,000 to fund the first year of the magazine. This money will go towards the monthly expenses: including paying workers fair wages, video production, app design and distribution, etc.

If funded, we can have the first issue out by the end of September. 

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La Noir Image Issue 0 is Now Out

La Noir Image Issue 0: the prototype is now free of charge.

Earlier this month, I shared my intention of making this site into a full iPad magazine. With the help of designer and an incredible team, this project is going to move forward to its ambitious next step: a Kickstarter.

Do keep in mind that this is only a prototype/proof of concept, and the actual iPad magazine will be a lot more like other e-Mags like the BJP: and therefore embrace the use of the web to incorporate videos. The content will also include essays and tutorials. But in the body of a standard PDF file, this is what we’re capable of doing.

I hope you enjoy it, and support us in the upcoming Kickstarter campaign we will launch to make the magazine a bigger and better experience.