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These 62 photographs have one thing in common: none of them uses more than two base colors. these two colors in tiny dots produce halftones from which all the gorgeous shadows and highlights derive. They’re simple yet striking. This is my entry for the duotone challenge. Living on the water provides lots of photo options [...]

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© Dom Romney the smoke, flames and roar of drag racing make for a “full sensory onslaught,” says Romney. Dom Romney quit a short career as a newspaper photographer two years ago to follow his passion for motor sports photography, which covers “anything with an engine—bikes, boats, planes—but mostly cars,” he says. He won the [...]

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Originally, just as with movies, all film for still photography was black-and-white or sepia. it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that color photography became feasible for the masses. obviously color photography is now open to anyone, and given that we see the world in color, why would we want to deliberately remove color from our [...]

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Makeup artist Kymm McLean looks like the hip, modern version of Disney’s Snow White. She’s got the same striking, face-framing, jet black hair (albeit a little longer), piercing but kind eyes and rosy red lips. but her business-minded attitude and colorful tattoos suggest she would never fall for the poison apple trick. If you’ve been [...]

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As tinderboxes go, few are more potentially volatile than the politics of race and sex. Mix the two together, and the possibility for explosion rises exponentially.In Glenn Ligon’s art, expertly surveyed in a traveling exhibition newly arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the mixture is made. an explosion, however, never comes. What [...]

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Black & white photography can be a powerful tool to bring out intense emotion, drama and contrast in a picture. it can also be used to de-emphasize distracting elements within a color photograph. Being devoid of color, it focuses the attention of the viewer to the area that conveys the story. The monochrome (black and [...]

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The world of black and white photography is considered a Fine Art form and it is done to induce an emotion of timelessness and freeze a moment at any given time. it goes without saying that a few great photographers like Ansel Adams and Steigletz have made black and white photography what it is to [...]

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These black and white photography tips will help you to recognize good black and white (b&w) photo subjects and to be able to photograph and edit these for the best effects. The reason so many photography courses and schools teach b&w photography early on is that it is an excellent way to train the eye [...]

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The return of black and white by Nickie Wang it takes a lot of artistry to take stunning photographs in black and white. as opposed to popular belief, mono tone images are quite tricky to produce as you need to employ skillful lighting techniques to come up with good results. Though there is no play [...]

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You would rarely find a person who does not like photographs. Photographs of people, nature and wild life attract almost everybody. With the advent of digital cameras it is now easy to catch moments in frames forever. During the early stages, black and white photography was the only way to capture photographs. Experimentation with color [...]

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