Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching
A course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz , Visual artist
Joined June 2019
Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos
Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos
Joined June 2019
Visual artist Cristian Maturana makes an interesting reflection regarding black and white photography as he says that "when we talk about black and white we suppress color and work only with the form, we leave out half of the information of a whole. It seems like a radical choice that forces us to rethink the image... We observe reality in color and then we eliminate it. It’s a brutally self-aware decision."
In this course, Maturana will introduce you to the exciting world of black and white, then will go further into a slightly more technical aspect of the course: the development and retouching of your photographs. He’ll teach you how to control your camera’s tonal range, both in the capture and in the editing, and to manage the values in the development and postproduction software, until you reach the printed output, configuring the mid-range peripherals for optimized use in photography.
What will you learn in this online course?
14 lessons & 18 downloads
- 94% positive reviews (107)
- 3,067 students
- 14 lessons (2h 29m)
- 18 additional resources (8 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
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- Level: Beginner
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Recommended software for this course
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
You'll work on a photograph taken with a digital camera, going through all its postproduction in black and white, until it is printed. In addition, you'll learn to digitize or scan an analog photograph.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
To amateur photographers and anyone who is interested in digital photography and wants to learn the keys to developing and retouching in black and white.
Requirements and materials
You'll only need to know how to use a camera. As for materials, you'll need a camera, a gray card, a computer with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom installed, a scanner, a low-end printer, and inkjet photo papers.
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A course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz
Chilean photographer and artist Cristian Maturana lives in Viña del Mar, where he teaches Professional Photography at the Instituto Arcos. He is also a printer and framing artist in the specialized workshop of fine art photography Taller Atacama. In addition to photography, he studied architecture and cinema.
He has received the Fondart award for the C.M./C.M project. (Yo es Otro), has published 2 books, and has participated in several individual and collective exhibits in important galleries and museums in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
Capture and settings
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The world in black and white
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Capture and display
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Reading and interpretation of the histogram
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Scanning
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U3
Development and digital edition
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Basic adjustments and selective corrections
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Color to black and white conversion
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Nonlinear editing with digital photography
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Nonlinear editing with analog photography
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U4
Final settings and printing
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Printer Tonal Limits
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The middle gray in the printer
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Final settings and printing
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FP
Final project
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Black and white photography: development and digital retouching
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andresw75
Buen curso, muy claro, buenas explicaciones.
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eduancast
Excelente. Explicaciones muy claras, buen material adicional, y te permite evolucionar de un nivel técnico básico a de un nivel técnico medio-alto
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aquilespreto
Um bom curso, recomendo.
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elvio_pierattini
Finalmente un corso ben fatto. Complimenti
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rothfaux
Excellent course. Have dusted of my camera, and enjoying the process from capture to print.