Yesterday, me and my girlfriend was out driving the car when we suddenly saw this cute bull on the side of the road. “STOP THE CAR, I have to take photo of him!”. At first he was a bit careful and reserved but then he slowly walked towards us. I took some snapshots before we went home. Inside of Lightroom later this day, I started to play around with the settings on the photos and came up with a pretty sweet preset that really works well on all my other photos as well. A success like this must be shared to the rest. So here it is; PH Naturally BW…
Preset in action:
SOOC/ORIGINAL:
PH Naturally BW:
SWEEEEEET! I love the look and feel of this B&W! It is time to minimize my presets and put this in my Favorites folder! Nice work!
Very sweet – can’t wait to try it out.
Thank you guys! It’s one of my favorites too :-)
This is an AWESOME preset! I love the look of how it transforms an image to a stunning black and white. Just one question: How would I go about putting a little brown tint in this? I’m a beginner photog and have tried all sort of ways with other presets.
Hi Shane. Thank you very much!
To add a little brown tint, you expand the “Split Toning” adjustments. Select a Highlight color with the colorpicker or slider and then adjust the saturation for it. Do the same on Shadows if you want to give them a brown touch as well.
Cheers!
yeah that’s a real cool presets – thank you very much!! I like your presets, so i hope you will share much more in the future.
Indeed I will Matthias. Thank you!
This one is awesome! I have already used it on a bunch of my photos. I don’t have to tweak it very much to make my photos look great. Thanks so much!!!
Nice to hear Leia. I saw your beautiful photos on flickr :-)
Congratulations for your work! I immediately subscribed to your rss feeds! If you like we (readers) could submit our presets as well.Would you happened to know if anyone managed to make a holga (toy camera) preset?
I believe it is possible with LR2 using grads,blur brushes e.t.c
Thanx!!
Hi George,
Thank you!
Actually you can submit your presets by using the contact page (top menu). I will see what I can do about the Holga preset. You will be notified by RSS when/if it will be available here.
Great preset!
Luv the B/W very much.
Thank you!
Woohoo! I am loving all your work! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank You for the preset. It looks great. I will try it out on some photos and let you know. This looks like something I have been looking for. I attempted to try a b/w conversion of my own. Feel free to check out my site and let me know what you think… JEEZOPEEZO.COM
Thanks
Rob Jaudon
this is an amazing preset! thank you!
One thing though, is there a way to get the effect without going to grayscale?
I ask this, because I have always heard that prints are better if not in grayscale… I guess.. What is the best way to print digital b &w photos? thank you again!
This is a pretty hot preset; I find I use it a lot. It has a slight sepia feel to it which is exactly what I was looking for. Did you modify the Split Tone? This works great for a RAW file, do you have one to modify a JPEG file? I tried, but my preset creating skills haven’t been honed yet.
Thanks again Pierre,
JoeWig
Best BW available!
Thank you Heidi!
I am a lightroom newbie, but I have been playing for a bit and this is my go to bw preset everytime!! Thanks a bunch!!
Thank you Tracy,
I saw your wedding photos. They look awesome!
I definitely like the vignette on this one. Totally perfect.
wow! i love this photo.the bull looks surprisingly cuddly. i didn’t think a bull could look this cute :D nice job on the presets :)
I am so in LOVE with this preset, nearly every shoot I do, I play with this preset. But, to my dismay, I upgraded to LR4 and this preset no longer carries its punch :( Any word on a LR4 update for this preset? Keeping my fingers crossed!
love this preset but lightroom 4 totally kills it… now it looks awful.