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Pete Williams gives us five reasons why we should try black & white photography

Get creative with colour and white balance in your shots.

Tips on shooting black & white images of snow.

Tips on using your camera's white balance options.

What works in black & white?

How to create a black & white image in Photoshop Elements.

Monochrome photography advice.

Exposure compensation for beginners

Why should you take a polariser out with you? How do you convert buildings to black & white? We'll tell you.

How to make a dull background white in GIMP.

Tips on photographing landscapes in black & white.

How to colour your black and white shots in Photoshop.
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| Address: | Unit 206, Old Gramophone Works,Saga Centre, 326 Kensal Rd, London, W10 5BZ, United Kingdom |
Forum
Photoshop- White background!
Quote:you'll get white with 2 stops more you'll also get a lot of 'blow back' of light. To avoid this use a tip I picked up from Michael Birt Turn off the main light/lights and with the model in place take a test shot with just the background lights firing. You should have a silhouette. If you see the blow back, known as spill, on any area of the model adjust the model position, the background ...
Forum: Digital imaging
How can I make white background look black?
Keep your lens cap on. :)
Forum: Lighting
How do I do a COMPLETELY white background?
Thank you all so very much for your helpful comments! :) I like that there's so many different ways I can try doing it! OOOO!! :D I love the window idea! That is perfect for me, bc i have white curtains in my room and the light comes in my room well, and i don't have much professional equiptment AT ALL! Thank you! The video was very helpful too! and I enjoyed watching it! It always helps to a...
Forum: Photographic discussion
How do I get a true white background?
Simpler solution, get a large soft box and put that behind your subject! The usual rule of thumb is to light the background 2 stops more than the subject. You may wish to adjust that to suit.
Forum: Lighting
Thanks for all the great advice. I will try some of the above techniques out and see what happens!
Forum: Lighting
Well Interfit softboxes new are only 50 - 80 quid a pop so second hand - who knows what you'll get
Forum: Lighting
White will photograph white if you expose it correctly; thus it needs to be lit sufficiently. IMHO 2 stops more than the main light is overkill and will give 'blow back' difficulties particularly in a small space. If a background is evenly lit; half a stop more should be all you need unless the paper/cloth is extremely creased or dirty.
Forum: Photographic discussion
Still life 'white background'
I thought that metering a 18% grey card would give the right exposure for the white background. Any shadow need to be worked away by the right lighting.
Forum: Taking photos
I've got a black backdrop too, so I'm currently playing with that arrangement, which is much easier with one flash.
Forum: Lighting
Pink colour cast on white background?
Realestate wishes to thank all for their help so far. Let me put things straight with you Lawrence. I am capable of thanking people for there help when i am logged on to the site but when i am not i cant. I dont need you or anyone else to do my thanks on my behalf. james
Forum: Lighting
Hi Sus, yes, the owners are very pleased with the photo. :)
Forum: Freelance
Hi Dave Thanks for the offer but it's all done now - made out of Opaque perspex (got some cheap offcuts from a local signmaker) rather than cardboard. I am about to have a muck around with it this weekend and will post the results on the forum. Cheers Brinley
Forum: Digital imaging
Hi Peter Thanks the info. It makes alot of sence now. I'll give it a go Steve
Forum: Taking photos
The simple answer is to set the background light 1.5 to 2 stops higher than your main light. Meter for your main light and you'll get a lovely pure white background.
Forum: Taking photos
Thinking aloud - white background
It all worked fine, thanks for the help. Instructions were specifically "plain white background" so for once the customer knew what they were talking about. Trouble with these ones is that it's the opposite from your portraits - you need to get the kids to have straight faces, and for some reason they always laugh at me :(
Forum: Taking photos
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Ilford Photo's portrayed many photographers talents within the black and white photography genre.

New black and white Ezycare knitted curtains.

Backgrounds from Kenro are for the photographer on the move.

Kaisers new Studio-out-of-the-Box home photography kit does what it says on the box - a compact desktop studio which is perfect for internet pictures and digital photography. It could be exactly what your digital camera has been looking for.

The Cubelite allows photographers to isolate reflective subjects from their surroundings thus minimising reflections. This creates a completely shadow less light source.

EME digital have announced the introduction of the photo studio in a box, revolutionising product photography, saving time, hassle and cost

Keith Trainor has announced that he will be holding a photography seminar on 18th January entitled Event Photography USA.


Photo-courses.com are offering you the chance to experience how you can use a single flashgun (Speedlite) as a professional studio light using brollies and diffusers.

The Flash Centre are delighted to announce that TFCTV is now live on air!

Kenro release the ideal studio accessory for small product shots.

The World Photography Organisation (WPO) today opens entries for the Sony World Photography Awards 2012.
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The magic of photography hooked me when I was a teenager who had borrowed his father's 35mm Rolleiflex camera. It was in my makeshift darkroom that I watched, fascinated, as images I had first seen in my mind's eye, then photographed, slowly came to perma
Estany de Ratera, Parc Natural de Sant Maurici, Catalonia Spain The atmosphere and light conditions were very changeble. The moving clouds were reflected by the crystal clear water and the light/shadow game was playing its score on the whole scene.Using
Pro Tips

Chris Hanley has an inexpensive trick for creating a white backdrop.

Chris Hanley tells us how a wall can help your photography.
Reviews

A top-end compact camera offers great picture-taking potential and could even replace your DSLR when you want to travel light. We test three popular prosumer compacts that will give your DSLR a good run for its money

EME Digital demonstrate their latest product photography solutions for 360 and rotating product displays. We have a look to see how it performs and what kind out output it produces.

Matt Grayson tests the K-m from Pentax. The newest entry class DSLR to hit the streets.

Getting an accurate light reading is critical in photography and a light meter will do just that. The Gossen Digipro F is a budget model that reads both incidental and reflected light and costs £149.99.

Matt Grayson takes a look at some paper from Sihl. Just another glamourous review in the high flying cocktails and parties lifestyle that we're used to.

Matt Grayson takes a look at the Vivicam 8370, a snappers delight from Vivitar.

Gary Wolstenholme compares these two heavyweights to see if either is capable of delivering a knock-out blow. In this clash of the titans he pits the top end press cameras from Canon and Nikon against each other.

The Olympus Mju 9000 has a smooth face unlike Matt Grayson who has a complexion that resembles the surface of Mars.

Panasonic visited ePHOTOzine with the new DMC-GH1. Matt Grayson was on hand to stick his mitts all over it.

The Orbis offers portable ringflash and quality lighting. Will Cheung gives it the ePHOTOzine treatment.

Matt Grayson gets his mitts on another Sony T range camera. This time, it's the DSC T70.

Portrait Lighting for Beginners is a two day course held in a 16th Century barn in the picturesque village of Lacock in Wiltshire. Rebecca Bradley paid them a visit to review the course for ePHOTOzine readers.
Techniques

Chris Burfoot AMPA ASWPP shows us how to light a white background when shooting portraits.

ePHOTOzine member Merl (aftertherain) shares here technique for creating clean white background flower photos.

Chris Burfoot shares his photographic advice on lighting white backgrounds correctly.

Kat Landreth from Pare & Focus shows how easy it is to whiten a dull background in GIMP.

ePHOTOzine member Rahul shows us how to make the most of budget lighting by shooting and then editing in Photoshop

Peter Bargh of ePHOTOzine shows you how to use Photoshop's Color Range tool to change a background.

Here we are going to learn how to replace the background of a photograph and correct the lighting so that the two images are seamlessly combined to recreate a special moment. Michael Bates is your tutor and he's using the free editing program Gimp

The latest book in Terry Hope's <EM>Black and White Photography </EM>series deals with the perennial subject of the nude. In this extract, a selection of photographers talk about the techniques they have employed to produce their pictures.

Enhance your black & white pictures with a few simple adjustments in Photoshop Elements.

When you've taken a portrait and the background lets it down, there's only one thing to do and that's remove it. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to remove the background from an image and create a new one.

Want to add a different shade to your background? Well you can with Colour Range in Photoshop.

Matthew Page shows us how to create better black & white conversions from colour files using the Lab mode and a gradient layer.</
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