Hi! In this video, we take black-and-white photography to the next level with this Lightroom quick tip.
Hi! I’m Adam and welcome to First Man Photography
the channel that will help you take your photography the next level. In this video, I’m going
to be using Adobe Lightroom. If you haven’t done so yet, you can check that out by hitting
the link down below where you can get a free trial. Okay, let's get into this.
Okay, so I’ve made a few videos before about black-and-white photography and a couple about
how I process my black-and-white photographs. So I’ll link you up to them down below so
you can check them out. When I was filming my vlog the other day, I came back with the
main image being the good, nice black-and-white image of these rocks. I was in a rush when
I was editing that picture because I wanted to get the video out the same day. So, over
the week, I’ve looked back at it and, for some reason, I wasn't very happy with it.
Then I realised it’s because I haven’t added the usual tone to that black-and-white
photograph. So I thought I would make a quick video and show you how adding a little bit
of tone can really make them standout from the crowd. The easiest thing to do is to get
straight into the computer and I’ll show you exactly what I mean.
Okay, we go straight into Lightroom. We’re already in the develop module. So there are
two ways of doing this. The first manual way is to use Split Toning. So come down to Split
Toning here and you have two controls: you can control the Highlights and the Shadows.
Firstly, you pick the colour that you want to introduce into your image. In this case,
I’m going to go for little sort of bluey, purple tone. Then just start adding the saturation
in. Then it affects the highlights. You can go really crazy and add too much and it will
look ridiculous but adding those really subtle changes to your image will really I think,
take it to the next level. So that’s the highlights. You can add a colour from a different
area and that will affect the shadows in that area. But I don't like. That's why it’s
called Split Toning. I generally find you get really good results from having a very
similar tone to that of the highlights. Obviously, subtle changes, drag it down and then you
can really start to see the difference that's making. You can compare it just by switching
off the Split Toning and it takes you back to the original image like that. Add, turn
it back on again and, like I said, I think that does take the image to another level,
for me personally anyway. So, the second way you can do it is to use the Google Nik Collection.
This is my second image. Again, I think it works really well in black and white. With
this brick, adding a little red tone to it will work really well. So the way I’m going
to do it is go to right click, Edit in and then use Silver Effects Pro from the Google
Nik Collection. So just load that up. So that loads up into Google Nik Collection which
is now free so go ahead and download that from Google. I've already edited this photo
outside of the Nik Collection. So just come down to Finishing Adjustments here. I’m
just going down to the Toning Panel here, expand that and then I want that reddish tone
like I said. Come down to the Copper Tone here. As you can see, that adds a really nice,
red tone to the image. You have a slightly deeper one there and I think that, actually,
is quite powerful now. So I’m going to select that and leave it there. But you can see there
a lots of different colours there with Coffee colour, Cyanotype, Blue Toner. They are there
for you to experiment with: really simple to do. Like I said, I think it takes your
black-and-white photographs to the next level. Okay, I hope you have enjoyed that. Please
leave a comment down below and let me know what you think. Do you just prefer standard
black-and-white? Do you prefer red or the blue tones? Do you like the sound of the Split
Toning or do like the Google Nik Collection better? How do you use this as well? Let me
know. I really want to hear from you. If you haven’t done so already, please subscribe
to the YouTube channel. There’s videos going up every Wednesday and every Sunday. I’ll
see you on another video very soon. I’m Adam! This is First Man Photography…out!
Out!!!