Video Tutorials
The Ansel Adams Method: How to Convert Photos to Black and White in Lightroom the Right Way
Black and white photography has a way of separating the people who understand light from the people who just shoot in it. I’ve been editing photos long enough to know that clicking the “Black and White” button in Lightroom and calling it done is like tuning a guitar once and never touching the pegs again. The conversion is just the starting point. Everything interesting happens after. In this CreativeLive tutorial, the instructor walks through a landscape shot, likely a mountain scene at sunset, and transforms it using Lightroom’s black and white tools in a way that genuinely echoes Ansel Adams’ zone system philosophy.