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Aperture: Get Creative

Aperture: Get Creative

Focusing on Aperture The primary purpose of the aperture setting is to regulate the amount of light that passes through the lens. Along with the shutter speed, it determines the quantity of light that reaches the camera’s sensor (or film) and forms a third of the ‘exposure triangle’. But, of more interest to most photographers is […]

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How to Use the Tone Curve Panel for B&W Photography in Lightroom

How to Use the Tone Curve Panel for B&W Photography in Lightroom

The Tone Curve panel is for adjusting RGB and color curves. There are a couple of interesting uses for curves relating specifically to black and white photography that I’d like to explore a little deeper here. The first is using the RGB curve to reduce shadow contrast. The darkest point in the image becomes mid […]

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