The photographer's black and white handbook - Harold Davis

The Photographer's Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You'll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow to take you from black and white pre-visualization through capture and post-production. Along the way you will lean over Harold's shoulder as he travels to exciting photo destinations and creates stunning black and white imagery, explaining his creative and technical processes as he goes.

This definitive guide includes:
How to see in black and white
Pre-visualization in digital photography
Understanding black and white composition
How to create your own black and white workflow
Black and white in ACR, Lightroom, and Photoshop
Using black and white plug-ins including Nik Silver Efex Pro and Topaz B&W Effects
Extending tonal range with multi-RAW processing and monochromatic HDR
Post-production techniques for working with dynamic range
Creative black and white special effects
Find out how to tone, tint, colorize, solarize, and simulate IR
Work with LAB to create unique black and white effects
Great tools for unleashing your photographic imagination
Beautiful photographs by Harold Davis chosen to inspire and guide you