The Enthusiast's Guide to Portraiture

59. CONVERTING TO BLACK-AND-WHITE

SPEAKING OF SIMPLE, I once watched a very well-known and well-liked photographer present his portrait black-and-white conversion technique to a crowd of about 300 people at a photography conference. Everyone in the audience, who was prepared to learn the “secrets” of Adobe Lightroom’s black-and-white functions for the next hour and a half, waited in great anticipation for this artist’s technique. When he finally loaded a few color photographs into Lightroom, he went straight toward the Saturation slider and moved it all the way to -100. At that very moment, he was finished. The crowd was flabbergasted. That’s ...