When the shadows of the subject are present.
#BLACK AND WHITE PICTURE TO COLOR CONVERTER HOW TO#
Related: When and how to use these 8 types of photography lighting 2. This usually leaves me with a pretty good black and white conversion. I bring my shadows way up and my highlights way down, otherwise my blacks would be clipped and my whites would be blown out. To make my subject pop, I add a lot of clarity and a lot of contrast. 100% of the time I tweak it afterwards but it is a great starting point. I LOVE it and it gives me that nice tone curve from the get go. Most of my black and white edits start by applying the Titanium preset from the Film Art Presets. Want to know my black and white editing dirty little secret? When converting an image to black and white in Lightroom, I like to have a nice deep S shaped tone curve which means that my blacks are really black and my whites are really white. I also love converting backlit images to black and white. This is especially easy to see when looking at a side lit subject, like in the pictures below. Have you ever tried to ‘’see’’ the light? When looking at my subject, even before I press the shutter, I know where there will be shadow and where there will be light on my subject. The evenly lit picture will lack dimension and the subject might be muddy. The quality of the light has a huge impact on my decision to convert a picture to black and white.įor example, a subject that is lit from the front with even light will not convert as well as a nicely side-lit subject. There are several factors that I keep in mind when converting a picture to black and white.
I will selectively convert my personal and client pictures to black and white when I feel that an image can be stronger in monochrome. I now shoot with my trusty Canon 6D and edit mostly in Lightroom with the occasional Photoshop tweak, so I get to purposely choose when I want to convert a picture to black and white. When I got my first roll of black and white pictures back, I fell in love and to this day, my love of black and white photography runs deep.
I thought that was just about the greatest thing since sliced bread. One day, I discovered you could get black and white film. I would use up a roll of film every couple of weeks and couldn’t wait the three days it took to get my pictures back. It was a point and shoot Kodak and I loved taking pictures with that thing. I got my first camera in middle school as a Christmas present from my parents.
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