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Photography How-to: Learning to See in Black and White
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John Batdorff
on January 4, 2012
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Everything from portraits to landscapes can be more powerful when they're black-and-white photos. Once you know how to recognize tonal contrast, texture, shapes, and patterns, your images will be anything but monotonous!
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