I am often asked how i achieve this rich deep black and white but warm look in my black and white images. This is very easy to do if you are a Adobe Lightroom user. I always shoot RAW but this technique works equally as well with JPEG’s straight from camera.
Black and white photograpy offers a endless potential for creative photography, really teaching you to make the most of the available light. And to processing the image for impact and emotion.
Lightroom Settings:
For a rich and deep black and white image edit in Adobe lightroom . Start by processing your RAW image as normal or use a jpeg straight from camera. For the above image my settings are as follows.
Then within develop settings navigate down to Split Toning
- Split Toning
- Set Highlights
- Hue 28
- Sat 6
- Set Shadows
- Hue 30
- Sat 4
- Balance -60
- Settings for above image
- Split Toning
- Set Highlights
- Hue 30
- Sat 5
- Set Shadows
- Hue 25
- Sat 10
- Balance -40
- Settings for above image
- Split Toning
- Set Highlights
- Hue 28
- Sat 3
- Set Shadows
- Hue 25
- Sat 8
- Balance -40
This technique works especially well with portraits and images of people. Wedding photography for example this method really brings out the detail and texture in the wedding dress while giving a very naturally enhanced look to skin and tone.
Why not try pushing the Hue sliders across to the blue end of the spectrum to give a cooler look to your images just remember to be gentle with the saturation sliders.