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Silver Efex Pro: Master Of The Black And White World

There are many photographers around in the world but only some are able to get popularity in highly competitive photography industry. While the number goes very less when it comes to photographing black and white pictures. The reason behind this is not that everybody has got the talent and skill to convert any colorful image into a black and white masterpiece. Apart from the capability to create stunning black and the white images is essential, you also need Silver Efex Pro software. This software is considered as the one of the best leader of the black and white world.

This award winning software is developed by Nik Software, Inc, which is a private company head quartered in San Diego, California. It has a branch office in Hamburg, Germany. There are numerous reasons behind why Silver Efex Pro software is considered the market leader of the black and white photography world and these are as follows:-

Through this software you can amplify blacks and whites thereby increasing the presence of highlights and shadows adaptively throughout the image, creating an incomparable contrasting effect.

The History Browser allows intuitive comparison of previous edits and different looks.
Its Dynamic Brightness allows adaptive brightening and brightness adjustments for various areas of an image.

Based on a particular image's information, its Soft Contrast feature employs contrast intelligently and hence creates a less harsh contrast and a more stylized mood.

Its Visual Presets are defined by photographic styles, which provide a great single-click starting points that can be edited and shared with others.

The Selective Colorization feature easily adds colorful elements back into the pictures by using its patented U-Point technology which precisely selects different objects of an image.

The Fine Structure feature brings out even the smallest details and textures resulting in more visible image-detail without giving an over-sharpened look.

The new GPU Processing ability of Silver Efex Pro software takes full advantage of the processors found on advanced display adaptors, processing even faster images into finished pictures.

Its Image Borders uses an organic image element to create unique and entirely random borders, giving a classic darkroom style edges with a modern look which provides endless possibilities.

You would also be excited to know that a second version of this award winning software is available in the market. You can buy your genuine copy of Silver Efex Pro software either online or through any of its authorized distributors and resellers.

About the Author

Anie Bates writes article for technology. He has vast exposure in writing for technology products like Colormunki, Silver Efex Pro, Spyder3Studio SR, Nik Software, Wacom Cintiq and many more. Visit www.smartimages.com for more details.

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Digital Black And White Photography

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best digital slr for manual artistic or black/white photography?

I am looking for a digital slr that is very simple to use for making artistic shots using manual settings, so the aperture and shutter speed should be easy to adjust looking through the viewfinder. I took lessons in black and white photography in college and like b/w photography a lot. I wonder if I should just stick to film slr's and scan my negatives? I want interchangeable lenses for sure, somewhat compact body. Thanks for comments.

For actual back and white prints, the best is to shoot using the black and white film of your choice, develop it using the developer of your choice and print it using an archival process.

A black and white print from dye-sub or Inkjet will NOT have the value of a photographic black and white print, printed by the artist on fiber based paper.

If you still want to use a DSLR to produce your images, one of the smallest DSLR's is the Nikon D40. In the end you will still have to buy Photoshop to make the RGB to black and white conversions to get close to a black and white photo print and then it will NOT have the texture or value of a true photographic print.

You can do a test. Using one of your best black and white prints from college, scan that negative and try printing it on a good photo ink-jet or dye-sub printer and then compare the two.

To answer the other part of your question, first look for a DSLR that will use the lenses you already have from the system you used in college.

Otherwise spend a LOT of time researching the available DSLR systems and pick the one that best suites you style of shooting.

Go into a camera store and see which of the cameras fits your hands the best.

See which cameras menu is the easiest for you to use to make changes in ISO, camera resolution, white balance, mode switching and make EV changes (a camera with +5/-5 EV could be important to you).

Finally, take a SD card with you and test each camera at their highest and lowest ISO as well as when using the white balance that matches the light in the store as well as with it in the "auto white balance" mode.

Once you get home and are able to see the results on your large computer monitor, you will know which camera is better for your needs and expectations, not ours.

Take your time before you decide. Once you choose one, you will be married to that system for decades and the cost of changing to the other system will cost you nearly as much as a divorce

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Black and white photography?

I need a NON-digital camera to start a course on black and white photography. I have previously studied b&w photography but this was using a borrowed camera.

Also, is it true that I can get a normal analogue camera that allows for colour pictures and then just get a b&w film, and thus get b&w photos?
Does anyone have suggestions to which brands I might look for?
In forward, thank you very much.

Get a 35mm SLR (single lens reflex) camera. Canon, Nikon, Yashica, or any other brand who's name you've heard of. A good lens is is more important than the camera body. Go for a
f1.8 or 1.2 at 50mm as a starting point. You can probably get a decent one on E-Bay or a camera store that sells used cameras. Use BW film and you're on your way.

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