GET STUNNING MONO RESULTS WITH SPLIT-RAW TECHNIQUES

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

THE key to success in making high-quality black-and-white images is in extracting all the detail and tone you can muster from the original raw file, then balance them to create a rich image, full of contrast. A raw file contains far more tonal information than a JPEG, but to make full use of it, you have to coax it out in the conversion process.

For images with a very wide range of contrast – such as those with bright skies and dark foregrounds – this can be difficult to achieve in a single raw conversion, as the best result you can get always involves a compromise. You can get a great looking sky at the