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I received an email from Craft&Vision with the announcement of their revised copy of Magic of B&W by David DuChemin. I immediately got excited about reading it as I purchased the 1st book and I was totally inspired by it.

Between a podcast episode by another photographer and this eBook, I am totally inspired to make some photographs today.

Now, onto the eBook. This publication shows the love and passion that David DuChemin has for photography and Black & Whites.

I totally agree with David when he says that there are million ways to convert your photographs into Black & Whites, but his methods are so straight forward that why try any different way. I will be trying his conversion methods in my workflow and see how they apply to me. I like David, don’t really use any store bought Photoshop Actions as I tend to believe it makes your photographs look like somebody else’s.

In this eBook, David talks about the Craft of Black and White as well as the following topics:

• Advantages of Digital
• His Philosophy
• the Creative Vision
• Interpreting the Image
• B&W Conversions
• Photoshop CS B&W Techniques
• Toning
• and give some same great sample images and description on how he accomplished the end result.

If you haven’t purchased any of his eBooks, maybe you should start now.  See some of the sample pages included in this book

Go and buy it.. NOW! It’s just $5.00 USD.. Yes, just 5 dollars… You can’t beat that!

But wait… The awesome people at Craft&Vision have a special for you… For the first few days only, if buyers use the promotional code MAGIC4 when they checkout, they can have the latest ebook for only $4 OR they can use the code MAGIC20 to get 20% off when they buy 5 or more books from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST June 1, 2010.

I would love to describe this… But I won’t… You’ll have to watch it for yourself.

Enjoy!!

I can actually spent my whole writing about my 3 girls, but I won’t! This was just a special moment…

~ Enjoy!

On this date, I was shooting my 12 y/o daughter for a special occasion coming soon (her 13th Birthday), but this was at the end of the day when we were ready to leave the location. I was sitting at this park picnic table and the nd patterns were just great. I was actually resting my head on it when I saw this and had to whip the camera out and make this photograph.

24mm, F/2.8 @ 1/160 seconds, ISO 320

I hope you enjoy this image as much as I do!

I went out this morning to take the garbage and I saw this from a far. At first, I didn’t want to go in, get the camera, blah blah blah…

But I said to myself, just do it, otherwise, it will kill you if you don’t back out. I’m so glad I listened to my inner self!

70mm, F/2.8 @ 1/125 seconds, ISO 320

~ Enjoy!

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while now and I think it’s time for me to STOP thinking and just doing.

This is the first image I’m putting out there for my followers/fans to download and use as their wallpaper.

To download the small image file (1280×800), click on the image below. If you prefer the larger image, download this (1680×1050) image here

Hope you enjoy the image and please feel free to comment.