{"id":4841,"date":"2024-01-28T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuchara.photography\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2024-01-28T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T23:24:25","slug":"ten-fine-art-photos-with-artisan-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuchara.photography\/2024\/01\/ten-fine-art-photos-with-artisan-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Fine Art Photographs in Ten Days with the B&W Artisan Pro X Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actually, it was more like 3 weeks, but I tried to process each image start to finish within a single day. My goal was to improve my proficiency using the B&W Artisan Pro panel<\/a> so that I would not be afraid to use it rather than simply defaulting to Lightroom out of comfort. Although I didn\u2019t start with the expectation that any of these would become \u201cportfolio quality\u201d images, I actually discovered a few hidden gems that will become part of my black and white Fine Art portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have used the B&W Artisan Pro panel to successfully process several of my black and white images, and I\u2019ve never failed to produce a successful result when I felt than a particular image could not be realized using only Lightroom. However, I\u2019ve usually needed to spend a few hours re-watching Joel\u2019s tutorials to refresh my workflow knowledge before getting started and also had a few false starts before coming away with the final processed photo. With this intense exercise, I\u2019m hoping to develop a more complete understanding of the workflow so that I intuitively know which tools to employ for a given image and improve <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with the goal of processing 10 images, but exactly which 10 images was not decided until I started working on the final photo. I started with an iPhone image captured out the passenger window at 65 mph, but I thought the sky looked interesting. Eventually, I ended up with a collection that includes five color images, five infrared images, and two iPhone photos (captured as DNG raw files using the Lightroom camera app). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the ten, four had been previously processed as black and white photos using Lightroom, Photoshop, or Silver Efex Pro. The other six include two new iPhone images captured within the last month and four other photos that I had either overlooked previously or knew that they would require more than Lightroom to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, I\u2019m presenting the collection of final images and some thoughts on what I have learned through this project. I am presenting the images in the order they were processed to give a sense of the how my skills improved as I progressed through the collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m planning a couple of subsequent posts to show the comparisons to the previously processed images and what I think has been improved (or not) through the Artisan Pro workflow, and another post presenting side-by-side comparisons of the raw photos before and after processing with Artisan Pro and my thoughts on how to best prepare raw images for processing. <\/p>\n\n\n