Black and White Photography: Today and Yesterday
Look back at the great B&W landscape photos of the past to become inspired about creating strong B&W photos with Lightroom Classic. Join Serge Ramelli as he explores some of the great work produced by Ansel Adams, and discusses what makes those photos so powerful and timeless. Taking inspiration from that work, Serge brings a photo of his own into Lightroom Classic and demonstrates the tools and techniques he uses to convert raw color photos to dramatic B&W images. Serge wraps up the class with a start to finish workflow example to see how you can apply the same techniques to your photos.
Release Date: 2020-10-15
Lessons
Looking Back at Yesterday
Join Serge as he introduces the class and takes a look back at what makes a great B&W photo work so well.
Duration: 15 mins 43 seconds
Introduction to Lightroom Classic
Serge provides a brief introduction to Lightroom Classic, and how to use it to begin creating a B&W photo.
Duration: 8 mins 55 seconds
Burning and Dodging: Part 1
Serge introduces the digital equivalent of burning and dodging in the darkroom.
Duration: 5 mins 50 seconds
Burning and Dodging: Part 2
Building on the previous lesson, Serge dives deeper into techniques for using the Adjustment Brush when burning and Dodging.
Duration: 4 mins 57 seconds
Burning and Dodging: Part 3
Covering a large area of the photo, Serge continues to demonstrate how you can achieve the levels of grayscale values you desire in your photo.
Duration: 6 mins 58 seconds
Burning and Dodging: Part 4
Every valley has its own brush stroke, which provides a greater level of control.
Duration: 5 mins 2 seconds
Graduated and Radial Filters
The Graduated Filter tool is a way to mimc using a graduated filter on your camera when taking the photo, but with a lot more control. The Radial Filter is similar to the Graduated Filter, but works within an oval shape.
Duration: 7 mins 16 seconds
Final Retouching
With the grayscale values adjusted for dramatic affect, Serge walks through his process for applying final retouching.
Duration: 5 mins 13 seconds
Start to Finish Workflow
Putting together all of the techniques covered so far, Serge takes you through the process on a single photo from beginning to end.
Duration: 10 mins 8 seconds