Editing Black and White Street Photography in Lightroom | The Difference is Amazing!

An EASY technique to edit dramatic black and white photos in Lightroom || After my recent street photography session I came home with a few black and white photos that I really loved. But they didn't look like anything special before editing them. These are my techniques to make them look awesome!
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[@paulmclinden2859]

I'd like to see more if this, explaining the step by step process you'd use and why?
Nice, love this type of video.

[@shaulzorea]

great photos and video, concise and to the point

[@TheLiamGordon]

Shaul Zorea Thank you kindly 🙏

[@emediamoto]

Thanks for sharing some of your editing secret sauce! I found it interesting. I'd like to see more street photo povs vids from you. Keep up the great work!

[@TheLiamGordon]

BAMB00MZ Thanks dude! Definitely lots more street POV stuff coming. I like making them the most👍

[@xinyaofeng3307]

I am your big fan from China！I appreciate you make a great video on editing b&w photo's tutorial. Photos you shot are amazing, you deserve more subscribers!!

[@TheLiamGordon]

Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@jp2503]

Do you think Alan Schaller also does this to get those pure white exposed areas? Or is there actually some technique to get something like that in camera?

[@TheLiamGordon]

Not necessarily on all his images. But the most graphic ones would be in some way dodged and burned. There’s an older one of a manakin wearing a hat that he has said he pushed up the whites and dropped the blacks to get the high contrast. So he’s not doing it all in camera.

[@jp2503]

@@TheLiamGordon I was thinking about the really bright white escalator shot and the one of the Japanese woman crossing the street and the background is a solid black rectangle before the crosswalk starts.

[@TheLiamGordon]

I would guess there was some dodge and burn involved in those photos :)

[@jp2503]

@@TheLiamGordon oh thank you I was wondering about that :)

[@frits1463]

J P There is an interview with Alan Shaller here on youtube for Smugmug where he tells he’s dodging and burning al lot on some images.

[@barrystreet2046]

Really cool ,thanks

[@TheLiamGordon]

Thanks, Barry!

[@klarab3599]

nice tutorial. thank you.

[@TheLiamGordon]

klara b Thank you for watching 🙏

[@craig18021971]

Some great editing tips. It would be great if you could mention some of the hotkeys you use during editing for us noobs.

[@TheLiamGordon]

Thanks Craig. I don’t use the hot keys a ton but I do use the R key a lot for the crop tool and G and D to switch between the Library and Develop pages ✌️

[@natcat7000]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@TheLiamGordon]

You're welcome!

[@mohammedsamsheer284]

Truly suprised as to wjhy you do not have more Subs,is this a new channel? fantastic videos and engaging video.

[@TheLiamGordon]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you're enjoying the channel :) I've only recently started to post regular videos and starting to see a little growth now, so you're here early and hopefully we will see some good growth soon. Thanks again!

[@robinchun1]

As most of the pp was the same for each image why not make a pre-set
And yes, I would like to see more of this sort of vlog

[@TheLiamGordon]

ROBIN CHUN with it only being 3 photos and having a few differences in the basic edit I didn’t really think about it to be honest. Would definitely have done it if I had a lot of photos to edit.
Thanks for commenting Robin, I’ll start sprinkling these editing videos in there 👍

[@robinchun1]

The Liam Gordon my thinking was you have that pre-set, so if next set of images require that look one click and it’s done!
As an aside Liam, I would like a bit of a back story regarding you journey, do you have a website?

[@TheLiamGordon]

@@robinchun1 Yeah, dude. My website is www.theliamgordon.com :)

[@jamesadams8572]

Just found your channel loved the photos and editing....wou
Ld like to see more. A new fuji user xt1

[@Teckle_Biscuits]

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing.. fellow Scot street photographer here..subbed!

[@TheLiamGordon]

Thanks pal! always glad to have another Scottish sub 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Teckle_Biscuits]

@@TheLiamGordon glad you're video popped up in my recommendations, keep up the good work!

[@dariogambi]

I will accept this kind of work (joking) when you will be able to do the same with an analogue camera. Thx anyway.

[@TheLiamGordon]

Best of luck to you ✌️

[@blekfut5763]

This silhouette's jagged edges look just terrible.

[@TheLiamGordon]

blekfut it’s not going to be viewed at that size. You could soften it if it was going to be made bigger

[@ultimatechrisso6592]

That's not editing a picture, that is manipulating a picture.

[@okiforbreakfast]

Better saying RAPING a picture