MIX UP THE MAGIC OF MONO
JON ADAMS
Photographer and writer
Jon is a photographer and writer, and also provides individual and small group tuition in digital SLR and Photoshop skills.
jon@jonadams media.co.uk
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NO PHOTOGRAPHER’S portfolio is complete without a selection of black-and-white images – and mixing up a great mono shot in Photoshop is much easier than you’d think, as you’ll discover in this project.
Once you’ve stripped out the colour from a picture, you’re left with two core ingredients: shape and contrast. These are the key pillars of any good black-and-white image when it’s boiled down; getting the two to work in harmony is guaranteed to result in a strong picture.
I’ve picked a landscape shot that was taken on the salt marshes of Norfolk to work on for this tutorial, but the principles of
