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Correcting a B&W image for print

Correcting a B&W image for print

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Correcting a B&W image for print

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- This week on the Practicing Photographer, Pigs! I have here this lovely picture of some pigs taken by our esteemed producer, Heather Schuler. And this is a great image. She really worked to get the right moment. Compositionally, your eye does just what it's supposed to. You just lock eyes with this pig and around here you see all these piglets. It's really great. The baby pigs are very cute. The trees make a nice background. It's really just a well-captured moment. She wanted it in black and white which I think is the right choice. The original color image doesn't have much color in it. And this is the stock Adobe Photoshop gray scale conversion. There's not a lot wrong with it but if we take a look at the histogram here... when I say there's not a lot wrong with it what I mean is that there's not much you can do with this image because there's not a lot of color in it to begin with. So we can't tone a lot of…

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