Of course your images are going to vary what you need to do.
#How to print black and white on pcstitch skin
To put a tad more brightness into her skin without affecting my highlights I added +15 Fill Light on this image. On this particular image I have Blacks at +20 and Contrast at +45. Sometimes I have to go back and re-tweak this part. You may not even NEED to tweak with the sliders but I like to- I feel like I have more exacting control as I move along to do the rest of what I need to do. In this image I pushed the shadows slider to -28. Now click back on the Point Curve tool and you change the Tone Curve toolbox back to the “Region” Tone Curve. You can have multiple points too- but until you feel confident to branch out- the 2 points are fine.
Curves users are going to feel RIGHT at home with this part of Lightroom. See how you just popped the image? You will need to practice with this. Now I move halfway down between the spot I just pulled up and the bottom left corner and I pull down slightly. JUST like a Curves layer in Photoshop I pull this up in the dead middle to pull up the midtones (think skin). I select Linear from the dropdown to smooth out my contrast and ‘almost’ Curve-like pop that LR makes it’s default. Gray scale- blah…but let’s fix that! Now I go right to the Tone Curve. Then select Black and White – right above the Exposure slider. If you overexposed too much then use the Adjustment Brush and bring back the clothes with it rather than using sliders. I took this gorgeous image- note good lighting on face and eyes? Background dark colors? Textures? All the makings of a great b&w portrait! First step is to get rid of any blinkies on the skin and clothes first by tweaking the Exposure slider. I use Lightroom exclusively for black and whites in my own workflow and shoot RAW. Pretty teen with gorgeous blue green eyes and freckles. A few minor tweaks and you’ll nail it!Īnyway this image.
So please note the condition of my sooc before getting down and thinking you aren’t getting this. Some of this can be remedied with better in-camera settings and/or moving the subject so their faces are catching more of the soft non-directional lighting. When I peek at their sooc images- I see poor lighting on the face and eyes and underexposure. I see so many people get frustrated that their black and whites are not turning out with such clarity, brightness, depth and pop. It’s REALLY important to note the condition of my sooc image below. If I want a grainy image- then I shoot to underexpose a little and bring it back up (yes I do this on purpose sometimes)- love me some gritty grain (or you can fake it and add grain in LR or PS later). These apertures generally allow me nice smooth skin, with little skin detail and I shoot to overexpose a little bit on the skin and pull it back in Lightroom. I generally shoot with apertures f/1.4-f/2.8 for single subjects. This is preference and will vary on lighting, subject, time of day to name just a few things. This type of image you generally focus on eyes, you want catch-lights in the eyes if you can and nice bright mid-tones with even lighting on the face (as light allows). These are often my most favorite though.īut back to the portrait type. You are capturing something real and you can’t always control everything- the direction of light including. For a moment type of capture- this is not as important for me. For a more portrait type of image- I like to make sure there is really decent light in the face and eyes. My backdrops (for me this is on-location as I do not use studio equipment) are usually darker and often have texture- like walls, trees, bushes, grass, etc. I usually like a rich, strong black and white. For me- a good black and white image usually has some bright midtones and some dark darks. I would say at least 50% of everything I do ends up in black and white.
Often the emotional impact is so much more intense than a color photograph. A colorless image, if done right forces the observer to really see WHAT is going on in the image. I have a huge soft spot for black and white photographs. I’d love to share my methods with you all. And honestly I have a few presets I made that I use so I rarely have to do it manually very often. I get asked a lot how I do my black and whites.
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