Editing Black and White

Self Portrait in the bath with wet hair and soft lighting

By: Kort Woycheshin




I wanted to discuss this photo more in depth as I discovered something really amazing when editing it in Lightroom. I shot this photo in uncompressed raw with a file size at about 66mb in one photo which is honestly insane but so nice when editing. I originally though black and white editing was boring, just up the contrast and you are good to go. Oh boy I was wrong....

The coolest thing I learned was about dealing with the colour sliders and how they were effected my skin tones when changing them. Red was predominantly my face and orange was the rest of my body. I found if upped the exposure of the reds you could soften the skin really beautifully and take a different approach to getting rid of blemishes compared to using a clone stamp or a gaussian blur to get rid of blemishes. Instantly when upping the red my pores became less pronounced and this gave a very classical Hollywood style beauty portrait look to it. Isolating each color and adjusting them to get the highest dynamic range was an incredibly cool way of approaching contrast that I hadn't't thought about before and this really opened my eyes to the thinking about colour when editing and not just visuals. 


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