Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching

A course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz , Visual artist

Visual artist. Viña del Mar, Chile.
Joined June 2019

Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos

  • Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 94% positive reviews (103)
  • 2707 students

Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos

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.

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What will you learn in this online course?

14 lessons & 18 downloads

The world in black and white
8 minutes, 52 seconds
Capture and display
18 minutes, 38 seconds
Scanning
9 minutes, 37 seconds
Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 94% positive reviews (103)
  • 2707 students
  • 14 lessons (2h 29m)
  • 18 additional resources (8 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What 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.


Reviews

2707 Students
103 Reviews
94% Positive ratings
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Cristian Maturana Ortiz

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Visual artist

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

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Presentation
    • Influences
    • What will we do in the course?
  • U2

    Capture and settings

    • The world in black and white
    • Capture and display
    • Reading and interpretation of the histogram
    • Scanning
  • U3

    Development and digital edition

    • Basic adjustments and selective corrections
    • Color to black and white conversion
    • Nonlinear editing with digital photography
    • Nonlinear editing with analog photography
  • U4

    Final settings and printing

    • Printer Tonal Limits
    • The middle gray in the printer
    • Final settings and printing
  • FP

    Final project

    • Black and white photography: development and digital retouching

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Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching. Photography, and Video course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz

Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching

A course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz
Visual artist. Viña del Mar, Chile.
Joined June 2019
  • 94% positive reviews (103)
  • 2707 students