Creating Expressive Black-and-White Photographs with Rich Seiling (Sep 24)
Creating Expressive Black-and-White Photographs with Rich Seiling (Sep 24)
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Discover how to see the possibilities within your color photographs and transform them into compelling black-and-white images.
Where & When
Live online class via Zoom on September 24th at 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
Class Length
90 minutes: 60 minutes of instruction followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers
About This Class
A successful black-and-white photograph is much more than a color image with the saturation removed. Without color to guide the eye, tone, contrast, light, shadow, texture, and negative space all take on greater importance.
In this one-session online class, photographer and master printmaker Rich Seiling will draw on more than four decades of experience with black-and-white photography. He’ll guide you through the creative and technical decisions involved in converting color photographs into expressive black-and-white images, using methods that go far beyond clicking a preset or conversion button.
You’ll learn how to recognize photographs with strong black-and-white potential, shape tonal relationships, preserve subtle grays, and use contrast with greater intention. Rich will also connect the traditions of the darkroom with today’s digital tools, showing how time-tested principles can help you create more successful monochrome images in Lightroom Classic.
What You’ll Learn
- Why black-and-white photography is more than the absence of color
- How to recognize which photographs may become stronger in black and white
- How tonal contrast, negative space, and subtle shades of gray create depth and emotion
- The important decisions that shape a color-to-black-and-white conversion
- How to guide the viewer’s eye through light, shadow, and tonal relationships
- How traditional black-and-white printing principles apply to digital editing
- How to build a more deliberate and expressive monochrome workflow
Included with the Class
Rich will provide participants with a custom Lightroom Classic preset developed from his own workflow. The preset offers a useful starting point for exploring the black-and-white possibilities within your photographs while leaving room for your own interpretation and creative decisions.
Although Rich will demonstrate his approach in Lightroom Classic, the core principles can also be applied in other photo-editing programs.
Who This Class Is For
This class is for photographers who want to create stronger and more expressive black-and-white images, whether you are new to monochrome editing or looking to refine an established workflow.
Some familiarity with Lightroom Classic will be helpful, but the class’s central ideas about tone, contrast, and visual interpretation are useful regardless of the editing software you use.
Class Recording
A recording will be available to registered participants for 30 days after the class, giving you time to revisit the demonstrations and work through the material at your own pace.
About The Lightroom Sessions
Essential Lightroom Training, One Skill at a Time
Whether you are just beginning or refining years of experience, The Lightroom Sessions offer focused, practical instruction designed to help you edit with greater confidence and purpose.
Led by master printmaker Rich Seiling, each 90-minute class explores one Lightroom skill or photographic concept in depth. Rich’s teaching draws on decades of darkroom and digital-printing experience, along with a deep respect for what each photographer is trying to express through their work.
Every session will give you techniques you can apply right away and a deeper understanding of how to shape your photographs into the images you envision.
Learn the tools. Strengthen your craft. Enjoy the process, one session at a time.
Meet Your Instructor
Rich Seiling is a photographer, educator, and master printmaker whose career has been shaped by a lifelong study of light, landscape, and the photographic print.
After beginning his photographic education in the darkroom, Rich explored digital photography and printmaking in the early 1990s. He went on to co-found West Coast Imaging, where he helped develop museum-quality digital printing methods and worked with photographers including Michael Forsberg, Galen Rowell, Jack Dykinga, and Robert Glenn Ketchum. His team has produced prints for museum exhibitions and leading galleries and completed prepress work for art books published by Taschen, Houghton Mifflin, and others.
Rich’s streamlined editing workflow has been tested through the production of tens of thousands of fine-art prints and taught to photographers throughout the country. As an instructor, he helps photographers gain control of their craft, strengthen their visual awareness, and discover the stories that are uniquely theirs to tell.
Rich lives outside Nashville with his wife and creative partner, Susan, and their three children. See more of his work at richseiling.com.
Cancellation Policy
Looking Glass Photo requires at least 72 hours’ notice of cancellation for a full refund.
Description
Description
Discover how to see the possibilities within your color photographs and transform them into compelling black-and-white images.
Where & When
Live online class via Zoom on September 24th at 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
Class Length
90 minutes: 60 minutes of instruction followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers
About This Class
A successful black-and-white photograph is much more than a color image with the saturation removed. Without color to guide the eye, tone, contrast, light, shadow, texture, and negative space all take on greater importance.
In this one-session online class, photographer and master printmaker Rich Seiling will draw on more than four decades of experience with black-and-white photography. He’ll guide you through the creative and technical decisions involved in converting color photographs into expressive black-and-white images, using methods that go far beyond clicking a preset or conversion button.
You’ll learn how to recognize photographs with strong black-and-white potential, shape tonal relationships, preserve subtle grays, and use contrast with greater intention. Rich will also connect the traditions of the darkroom with today’s digital tools, showing how time-tested principles can help you create more successful monochrome images in Lightroom Classic.
What You’ll Learn
- Why black-and-white photography is more than the absence of color
- How to recognize which photographs may become stronger in black and white
- How tonal contrast, negative space, and subtle shades of gray create depth and emotion
- The important decisions that shape a color-to-black-and-white conversion
- How to guide the viewer’s eye through light, shadow, and tonal relationships
- How traditional black-and-white printing principles apply to digital editing
- How to build a more deliberate and expressive monochrome workflow
Included with the Class
Rich will provide participants with a custom Lightroom Classic preset developed from his own workflow. The preset offers a useful starting point for exploring the black-and-white possibilities within your photographs while leaving room for your own interpretation and creative decisions.
Although Rich will demonstrate his approach in Lightroom Classic, the core principles can also be applied in other photo-editing programs.
Who This Class Is For
This class is for photographers who want to create stronger and more expressive black-and-white images, whether you are new to monochrome editing or looking to refine an established workflow.
Some familiarity with Lightroom Classic will be helpful, but the class’s central ideas about tone, contrast, and visual interpretation are useful regardless of the editing software you use.
Class Recording
A recording will be available to registered participants for 30 days after the class, giving you time to revisit the demonstrations and work through the material at your own pace.
About The Lightroom Sessions
Essential Lightroom Training, One Skill at a Time
Whether you are just beginning or refining years of experience, The Lightroom Sessions offer focused, practical instruction designed to help you edit with greater confidence and purpose.
Led by master printmaker Rich Seiling, each 90-minute class explores one Lightroom skill or photographic concept in depth. Rich’s teaching draws on decades of darkroom and digital-printing experience, along with a deep respect for what each photographer is trying to express through their work.
Every session will give you techniques you can apply right away and a deeper understanding of how to shape your photographs into the images you envision.
Learn the tools. Strengthen your craft. Enjoy the process, one session at a time.
Meet Your Instructor
Rich Seiling is a photographer, educator, and master printmaker whose career has been shaped by a lifelong study of light, landscape, and the photographic print.
After beginning his photographic education in the darkroom, Rich explored digital photography and printmaking in the early 1990s. He went on to co-found West Coast Imaging, where he helped develop museum-quality digital printing methods and worked with photographers including Michael Forsberg, Galen Rowell, Jack Dykinga, and Robert Glenn Ketchum. His team has produced prints for museum exhibitions and leading galleries and completed prepress work for art books published by Taschen, Houghton Mifflin, and others.
Rich’s streamlined editing workflow has been tested through the production of tens of thousands of fine-art prints and taught to photographers throughout the country. As an instructor, he helps photographers gain control of their craft, strengthen their visual awareness, and discover the stories that are uniquely theirs to tell.
Rich lives outside Nashville with his wife and creative partner, Susan, and their three children. See more of his work at richseiling.com.
Cancellation Policy
Looking Glass Photo requires at least 72 hours’ notice of cancellation for a full refund.
