Scenic Places in Black and White - Tutorial by Doug McKinlay

Taking pictures in black and white technically is easy. Especially in today's digital world where post processing offers endless possibilities in tuning and filtering the taken image in the computer.

Canadian photographer Doug McKinlay gives a tutorial on how already at the moment of image capture you need to decide if this picture is going to be presented in color or in black and white.

Expert Talk - Mark Wallace on the Zone System for Black and White Photography

Photography Tutorial: Street Photography

Street photography is a photographic discipline taking pictures in the street mostly not being noticed by subjects, or composing captures out of situation.

An interesting tutorial by photography Matt Stuart can be found on techradar.com

Or one by Drew Hopper at petapixel.com

The tree main messages are:

- Get close to subjects:
Getting close to subjects, right into the scenery using a wide-angle lens is key in capturing the unique moment. Using this technique gives the viewer the feeling being right in the middle of the scene.

- Image quality isn't everything:
In any photography image composition should have higher priority than technical image quality. In street photography capturing the moment this is even more important.

- Learn to work fast:
To capture the dynamics and feeling of street life you need to be quick. Intervention with the situation and the subjects shall be minimal. In order to achieve this you need to be quick. Quicker than subjects to react to the fact you taking their picture.

Photography Tutorial: How To Get Better Shark Photos Underwater | Scuba Diving

There is still some time to go until my big Cocos Island scuba diving adventure starts. In preparation I am reading a lot on taking pictures of big fish.
While diving the last couple of years the reefs of the coral triangle in South East Asia I was mainly facing macro wildlife and beautiful coral seascape.

Here another photo tutorial worth reading:
Photography Tutorial: How To Get Better Shark Photos Underwater | Scuba Diving

Color film developing at home: C41 Process

The handcraft of developing film has almost become extinct.
But, there is a recent revival of respective techniques, given the number of resources found on YouTube or blogs where the manual development processes are explained step by step.

While 20 years ago it was common to develop the film and then develop prints, nowadays it is more popular to self-develop the film and scan negatives and slides at high resolution for further digital post processing and subsequent printing.

A very nice video tutorial on developing film using the C41 process by Ted Forbes on The Art of Photography channel. All chemicals and tools as well as the entire manual process explained in great detail:

Or the explanations on the moominstuff blog:
moominstuff: Color film developing at home: Easy!: I live in a city metro area of about 3.5 million folks, 75 miles across from east to west, and there currently seems to be one single place ...

Or on petapixel:
How to Process C-41 Color Negative Film at Home, From Start to Finish