The goal of this course is to produce stunning black and white landscape and/or urban cityscape and architecture images using regular as well as long exposures.
This course is geared to those who are are looking for specific help with B+W post-production technqiues.
Bi-weekly assignments will be given that will have you out shooting and practicing the post=production tcehniques discussed in class.
Marc will cover several color to black and white conversion methods, the use of gradients, custom vigenttes, layer masks, selections and blending of several exposures to create a refined B+W look as the final result.
This course will have you immersed in learning while access to your instructor Marc is guaranteed with a small class size.
Marc has welcomed students from all over the world since he started teaching this unique way of photographing in late 2006. In the past few years, Marc's long exposure photography has won numerous international awards including the IPA (International Photo Awards), Spider Awards and PX3 (Prix De La Photographie Paris). Marc's work has also been featured on numerous photography blogs and recently on the Phase One website.
Images above: Original RAW, simple B+W and final B+W
Since 2002, Marc has had 750+ students from all over the world take his online courses! Students came from all over the world, including (but not limited to) the follwoing countries: Canada, USA, Mexico, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Turkey, Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, France, Portugal, Russia (Moscow), New Zealand
Marc's students have won several international awards, including the IPA (International Photo Awards), Spider Awards and PX3 (Prix De La Photographie Paris) using the techniques presented in this online course as well as his guidance through image reviews and critiques.