Make your photos look professional in B&W

Hello dear reader!
This week I visited an old friend of mine. I brought my camera (as always) and took some photos of their lovely kids. The newest member of the family is “Meja”. She was curious about that big camera lens in front of her face. Her head and eyes followed it all the time. Who said it was hard to take photos of kids? hehe Read more

3 presets to mimic a movie look

Hi everyone!

Neil Cowley from makelightreal.com sent me a set of three Black and White Lightroom presets to mimic film Contrast management techniques to mimic the tonal response of black and white films. Just download them and put them together with the rest of you Black & White presets. By now that list should be pretty long I guess (if you’ve been following my posts for some time now). Check out the testresults below. Read more

LIDF Fuji & Ilford B&W Collection

Here is another collection of Michaels film emulation presets. This collection consists of his black and white film emulations based off of Fuji and Ilford film stocks.

Also included is his newest preset “Fuji Neopan 100 Acros 100 -Exp 2005″ based off a roll of expired Acros he shot a while back. This preset is exclusively offered through Presets Heaven.
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Desaturate that photo and make it fade away

Hi folks,

Once again I’ve been playing around for some time in Lightroom and this time it resulted in a brand new preset. I call it PH Fade away because it desaturates the photo and gives it a bit of mocha touch.
The shadows are leveled out to flow with the lightness and the black areas have increased contrast adjustments to bring  depth to the photo. Read more

5 nice Lightroom presets – Tonemaster #01

This free set of Lightroom presets includes five musthave presets (as I see it). It’s a nice compilation of black and white presets. Copper B&W, Mocha brown b&W, Silver tone B&W… I don’t know which one to choose, I like them all ♥. What about you? See them in action and download them yourself. Free Lightroom presets like this makes others (who sell presets) go crazy… Read more