Hey everyone! In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to take a boring black and white photo and edit it in Lightroom to make it dramatic and cinematic. This is a super simple tutorial perfect for beginners or anyone looking to change up their black and white style!
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VLOG CAMERA SETUP //
Sony RX100iv
Sony a7s mkii + Sigma 24mm f1.4
PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA SETUP //
Canon 5dmkiii
Sigma 24mm f1.4
Canon 35mm f1.4
Canon 50mm f1.2
Canon 85mm f1.2
Canon 135mm f2
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Thank you so much for watching! xx
Comments
45 responses to “How to Edit Amazing Black & White Portraits in Lightroom!”
Thank you Julia !
This is so helpful! I’ve been struggling with black and white cause I put it in black and white and then don’t know what to do next 😂
I like watching ur viedos so much…wish I cld meet you..4mth lightroom user in Florida
How can i keep the lips red after i turned the photo to B/W? I treid to bring all the colors down except the red but it had also made the face red on some parts
Thank you so much!!
Thank You!
Great. Thank's
"u just be thinking black and white is quite boring"… nobody says that.
Pretty cool, liked the video.
Hint: press 'Y' to show before and after.
Definitely going to try this
Love it <3 this helped me a lot
I'm starting to be interested in black and white portraits
nice, really nice. will try some of that later.
+1 like . thanks!
This is the first B&W tutorial for portraits that where I actually like the result. Great work.
now I would like to see you edit a B&W photograph….not from color to B&W. O photo that was shot in B&W and needs some touch up
nice
The original photo was already quite flat and when you flattened it further using curve I though you ruined the whole picture. But the final result is amazing. It would be great to compare it with a regular S curve though. I think the real magic in your workflow is the B&W color sliders.
Awesome tips and video quality. Very professional! Keep up the good work, Julia
u sound similar to Alison Wonderland <3
B&W isn't necessarily boring, but can be timeless!
Honestly, it looked like you were undoing some of the things. For example, you put contrast up and started crushing shadows in the face/hair. Then put shadows up to bring detail back out, then pulled blacks down and started crushing them again. Felt a bit aimless. Sorry if that sounds harsh, just what I saw.
Awesome Julia, well done again!
I've spent 4 hrs watching your tutorials. I'm so in love! Thanks for putting so much care and dedication into your videos. Tomorrow I'll go shoot my very first family session and a fashion/individual shoot. I feel a lot more confident now!
Greetings from Missouri USA
Thank you, learnt loads agian 👍
thanks for the tips! I'm just getting into some B&Ws so this is the perfect video for me right now 😛
Just amazing video! Really appreciate it 🙂
Love from Russia <3
Love it Julia! I’m about to buy a new body and trying to decide between 24 and 42 mp. Do you ever find yourself wishing your mark3 had more mp for post? Or does 24 work great for your fashion and vacay work??
Forgive me, but why can't I move the shadow and Highlight sliders levels to where I want to start like you can. help they seem o be locked in the top and bottom corners only.
Absolutely loving and learning a wealth of info from your videos, you've got my sub
Thank You for very useful tutorial. <3
Really nice Julia
B&W is never boring! This is so great! Thanks for doing the video.
Thank you again! I am generally not a big fan of B&W, but I definitely love the result!
Marvelous
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I think you are one of the best natural light portrait photographers I’ve seen, you have a phenomenal talent…but, I’m really sorry, I prefer film for black and white images. I know I’m most likely in a very tiny minority and I'm going to get slaughtered for saying it. But it’s a great image and a brilliant tutorial for the billions of people who probably disagree with me.
Hey thanks for the video. Quick question. If I wanted to keep the whole image black and white and just colour the flowers. How would I go about it
I love your tutorials <3
great tips, thank you!!
i have a question… what's the effect of changing the radius on the sharpening? i've always wanted to know and I feel like I only change it just for the sake of it, not really seeing much of a difference
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The RAW alone looks great. So clean. The final edit was really really good.
This is awesome! I've been using a preset for my b&w but have been wanting to come up with my own black and white styling. Thanks for the tips.
"up the side of the panel thing" love it..
Nice work Julia.
Great as always. Can you pls do a video on editing wedding theme pics especially with one dominant color. Tx