How I create Dramatic Black and White images for Instagram

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I have been asked a lot about how I process my black and white images for my Instagram. In this video I show you the basic technique I use, using curves and HSL sliders within the Darkroom app, right on my iPhone. I will also show you how to get similar results on Snapseed for you Android users. You can also take these tips and use them high end editing software like Lightroom and Photoshop.
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@seantuck 7 лет назад

A few of you have jumped on and pointed out that if you shoot in RAW, even if you are shooting BW you will retain all the colour info. Of course you're right, and I hope these tips help you. I think the question came from an Instagrammer who is likely shooting in jpg, so the answer is geared towards those who don't shoot RAW for Instagram. I'm actually one of them. I only have a 16GB iPhone which always seems to be too full, so shooting and editing jpg from my X100 is a workflow which works well for me. RAW is saved for my professional work.

@beatrixpendragon 7 лет назад

Sean Tucker Thank you. :)

@piyushmishra7791 7 лет назад

Sean Tucker i have been using snapseed for like, 8 months, but never knew i could have so much control using colour sliders. Beautiful and easy explanation. Now i understand the hsl slider use. Thank you!

@stel1000 7 лет назад

Sean Tucker well... You know in Fuji you can shoot and keep both raw and the bw JPEG.

@seantuck 7 лет назад

Stelios Kapet yes mate. I know. Thanks.

@melonyskinner2782 6 лет назад

wow

@bammozingo 5 лет назад

This video opened the door to a whole new B&W view for me that I never knew existed. At least that gave me the confidence to where I could create it. Thank you so much

@gustaf80 3 года назад

I keep going back to this video. Simply: THANK YOU!! I had the pleasure to start shooting with a real red filter... That really taught me how to handle it. So much easier now

@ruthgross647 6 лет назад

The more I see your pictures and videos more i love your work! Very professional. Congratulations

@carlosc.639 6 лет назад

You´ve helped me so much to understand how to edit more than use presets. Thank you!

@nickschulman986 6 лет назад

Just a beautiful channel. So happy to have found this.

@seantuck 6 лет назад

Welcome:)

@alicefremont 7 лет назад

I use the curves from Snapseed on android, works fine! Was waiting for this one by the way, great video and nice squarespace add, not annoying at all, simple as your usual style ☺

@seantuck 7 лет назад

Thanks Alice.

@Photo_doctor 4 месяца назад

6:04 thanks for not removing the blubbing ❤ It feels real

@RickyKresslein 7 лет назад

Thanks for the tips, Sean! I love the creative color (or lack of) and compositions of your videos. The way you did the iPhone shots with the color, zoomed in view on the right and you yourself doing the actions on the left is just awesome. Thanks for sharing.

@sendingyoulovefrom6231 5 лет назад

Your videos are my favorite instructional videos. Thanks so much!

@dredregenium 5 лет назад

I'd really love to see how you process colors! So please make another tutorial like this for the color version. Love this video so much, simple yet informative! Keep up your work, Sean!

@seantuck 5 лет назад

The colour video has been up for over a year. Did you check? Go watch it.

@NigelWarren 7 лет назад

Thanks for these wonderfully useful techniques. Gave me a lot more understanding in 10 minutes than I've had in years of casually editing with digital tools. I'd also love to see a video on color grading techniques. Hope there's enough interest for that.

@martinhendry 2 года назад

Thanks for this Sean - have been working with tone curves but the subtle difference the HSL makes will take it to the next level. 👏

@jorgepeterbarton 4 года назад

On the fuji x (don't own the others) you can do this in-camera. Of course the By or Br and Acros filter modes. But also, you can set an extreme white balance which is taken into bw. Even custom balance of coloured objects and the wb shifts to extremes. This way is more control obviously but I got into that learning about 'ortho' film and gives some effects whilst shooting. Maybe I will add RAW and try this too. Good thing about that is don't even need a RAW converter, I can export via camera to default settings too.

@seantuck 4 года назад

But if you apply it in camera you are just using an onboard preset which will work for some images and not for others. Editing custom in post means you have a ton more control.

@danielcattermole125 7 лет назад

Great channel Sean, by far one of my favourites on RU-vid

@Halfpint71 7 лет назад

Cool that you used Snapseed too as that's what i edit all my phone photos with (I'm doing the 365 project so i'm shooting everything digital on my phone, as i predominately shoot film) and i sometimes miss the "punch" in black and white.

@dunnadidit 7 лет назад

Anyone else almost immediately download Darkroom? Reply 👍 if you tried these techniques! Thanks for the awesome tips Sean!

@mahakalax108 Год назад

Thx. and btw nice Warsaw photos :)

@christophergrove4876 4 года назад

Hey Sean! Excellent info! You're fascinated by cine so you probably know this... You mentioned that they used to use colour filters in black n white photography. Back in the Black & White MOVIE days, they used to use red filters in order to mimic NIGHTTIME scenes while actually shooting during daytime. This allowed actors and crew to still see what the heck they were doing AND to NOT have the film end up too grainy. John Ford used this technique a lot in his B&W westerns. So, with playing with red sliders AND exposure, one can mimic (a bit) nighttime shots taken during daytime. This process has the name "day for night". (Once they started switching to colour film they scrambled to use new techniques, like using tungsten film in daylight, lowering exposure and using blue filters... but that's a different subject.)

@seantuck 4 года назад

If you're interested in that you should check out the recent film ,'The Lighthouse' where they used a cyan filter to turn red hues dark, making the skin grainy and craggy, and turning blood as black as oil. Very clever stuff.

@christophergrove4876 4 года назад

@@seantuck OH MY GAWD, Sean... I'd seen the trailer last fall and when I realized that Defoe was the dark face (SO ortho!) I was staring at I thought "I've GOT to see this" but then before I knew it a few months had passed and COVID happened! Welp... sure enough, I've GOT to find it and watch it!!! I LOVE old Hollywood hard, incandescent lighting. And, looking at the trailer again NOW, you're right... the tones, the grain and the ortho look are gorgeous! BTW... google the heck out of "Saturday Night at the Movies" hosted by "Elwy Yost". This is what I watched every Saturday all through my impressionable teens. When other people shy away from "old, boring, colourless Black & White" I'll be there! I grew up with "A Christmas Carol" (Alastair Sim version) in B&W. When the colourized version came along, I HAD to turn down the colour in order to watch it! LOL Cheers!

@mikegindling4236 5 лет назад

Thanks for the tips. I use Snapseed.

@valdiskrebs566 4 года назад

Very nice. I shoot monochrome JPGs only (my Olympus cameras let me adjust Highlights/Mids/Shadows curves, and apply R/O/Y/G filters before I press the shutter). That way I see what I will get.

@laetitiaetanthonymahieujea2640 4 года назад

Very very helpful. Thank you Sean!

@iqueque 6 лет назад

My apologies. Lying flat on my back, with a fractured spine, navigating my computer is a tad challenging. But your videos are inspiring me to improve my skills as soon as I recover.

@seantuck 6 лет назад

That's great to hear. Get well soon!

@tonypower9315 5 лет назад

What a great video. Jesus I wish there was something free and simple for your computer simple being the operative word , it's all so complicated....and bloody expensive!

@JoeLopez 7 лет назад

Thank you. I just learned more about Snapseed! I would be interested in color processing tips as well.

@oinkooink 3 года назад

I bet you would, Lopez.

@mrtbhdr 7 лет назад

love your work Sean. you have the heart and we can feel that you love what you do. a great video as always and please do a tutorial about colour grading too. in fact, please do make videos every day. you are giving me inspiration that I need. thank you!

@chriscard6544 Год назад

awesome, that changes the life, thank you so much

@nenechannel818 4 года назад

So very galing ng host na to like ur strategy sir sana all

@yujinlandscapephotography.7787 6 лет назад

very helpful great video, Sean.

@cliffblackerby8738 4 года назад

I found this extremely interesting and helpful as other of your videos. I’m sure it will help me edit my bw shots to be more dramatic. I would be very interested in a video on how you edit color photos. Thanks so much for your willingness to share your experience and expertise.

@seantuck 4 года назад

I already have a video on colour editing.

@archithkamath6371 6 лет назад

Thank you so much ❤️, such an awesome orator and artist u are

@cartercooperpa 5 лет назад

Yes I would like a tutorial on keeping colors consistent through a series of photos

@seantuck 5 лет назад

it's already up

@JV-tg2ne 3 года назад

Shoot both raw and jpg, the jpg can be black n white but the raw file will be in color by default holding all digital data that can be edited later

@giancarlo9866 7 лет назад

Please do make the video on processing colour

@jonathanveriez3766 10 месяцев назад

Hey @seantuck What screen brightness do you use on your phone for editing photos? Love your channel! I learned a lot 😊

@edumendes1965 Год назад

Great tips ❤❤❤❤

@jeanmarcturmes 6 лет назад

You were in Munich, how nice! :)

@tonyhacche4545 2 года назад

Really enjoying Sean's tutorials, very clear and concise explanations. I am looking to move on from iPhone photography to something that offers more opportunity for control and creativity. To that end have recently bought a GR3 which I am gradually (and I mean gradually) getting to grips with via RU-vid clips, especially Sean's. Any opinions on whether I should shoot RAW from the off or start out with JPEG and move to RAW as my abilities with the GR3 (hopefully) improve?

@psblad2667 4 года назад

Excellent tips!! Thank you!!

@joseph-the-seventh 4 года назад

Hi Sean, will you be doing any workshops in the future?

@adambecvar8391 7 лет назад

Hello, I am curious about one thing. How do you edit your images(colour and BW) so that they have that clean look. It is hard to describe, but they look so crystal clear and sharp. Amazing.

@JezLerman 6 лет назад

Cool. Now let's apply the same edit across multiple images, something Snapseed can't do (at least last time I looked). I'm not talking applying a preset on a one-by-one image basis. I mean applying the finished edit across tens or hundreds with a single mouse click, as we can do in Lightroom, X3 etc.

@jeffjoycephotography Год назад

What is the difference in using a color filter on your camera lens as opposed to using the color sliders in the program

@PaulGJohnsonphotography 7 лет назад

Great video as always Sean. That's an app that should also be sponsoring you. I'll have to upload it. Thanks for sharing

@gabbah79 5 лет назад

I'm pretty darn sure he gets a kickback on the apps. He's linking to the apps, and the link includes a redirect token which identifies who the redirect came from... I doubt that he's actually using a phone app to edit his photos. Pretty sure he just does it in lightroom.

@ginabroma 7 лет назад

Color grading would be nice!

@ginakitsuse228 7 лет назад

Thank you, very helpful!

@devkulkarniphoto 7 лет назад

Another amazing video Sean 👍👏 I would like to know if you post process RAW/JPEG? I assume you take most of the photos from Fujix100 which is in RAW+JPEG and post process JPEG in Darkroom?

@seantuck 7 лет назад

+Devendra Kulkarni I shoot jpg for Instagram usually, to save space when editing on my phone. I obviously shoot RAW for all my professional work.

@zejoesif 5 лет назад

Dark sky is a great app :)

@rossanamadamba5688 7 лет назад

Thank you!

@mrecg99 7 лет назад

Love your videos cause they are different from the average! Now i have a BIG QUESTION: how did you get the right part of the screen like that? Did you use a still of the phone and masked a screenshot video into the screen? I may be the 50th person to say this, but you look so much like Thomas (David Hemmings) in Blow-up by Antonioni.

@seantuck 7 лет назад

Hi mate. Yup, it was just a still with a screen cap masked into the middle. David Hemmings is a new one:) I get Domhnall Gleeson and Tony Hawk fairly regularly though:)

@jefforymitchell5697 6 лет назад

You look a lot like Gavin Free too.

@MrTheManav 6 лет назад

Jeffory Mitchell no he doesn't he looks like domhnall tho

@luistavares6670 7 лет назад

yes please I am intrested

@davereeves446 6 лет назад

Thanks for this Sean. Is this available on ipad Pro? I get so frustrated with PS and LR. I shoot my B&W in mc on a Canon 5d1 and very often they look great straight from camera. I'd do very little to them. But PS and LR convert the raw file straight to colour and a never seem to be able to recreate what the camera did.

@rangerandbronco 7 лет назад

Great video and the presentation was awesome! I've been using Enlight for my phone edits. I think I'll give Darkroom a try since I kind of the UI a bit more.

@ArturTavr 6 лет назад

I'll put my website on Squarespace just to feel that I'm paying you for such a great content! Thank you for that. I would love to see the color grading process. Do you know if there is a good android alternative for darkroom?

@seantuck 6 лет назад

Thanks mate. Colour grading video is live as well. Try Polarr app for Android.

@horandestudios 7 лет назад

Color grading!!! color grading!!:-)

@seantuck 7 лет назад

+Daniel Horande it's already up.

@mjfalcon007 7 лет назад

Hi Sean, Excellent video man, great tips and simple to follow. Do you predominately shoot JPEG on your X100F? I shoot JPEG + RAW but my Jpegs are usually B&W with one of the colour filters or for colour I default to Classic Chrome, would you suggest Standard JPEG instead of the other colour profiles for editing like this?

@seantuck 7 лет назад

+Michael Falkous if you shoot RAW as well then it doesn't matter because the RAW file will collect the colour info for you. Knock yourself out with the jpgs then.

@mjfalcon007 7 лет назад

Sean Tucker Hi Sean, I didn't mean to come across arrogant or anything like that, so I apologise if that was the way it was interpreted. I am just trying to understand the concept of editing on my phone as I have always used Lightroom regardless of where the photos end up but I am interested in pursuing your approach for IG. What I am trying to find out is do you shoot in Standard JPEG for your phone edits? (No other colour presets) also my understanding is that the iPhone cannot read RAW files do you know if that is correct?

@seantuck 7 лет назад

Michael Falkous no offence taken. I shoot with the standard colour preset (Provia) on the original x100 (not the F). iPhone and some apps can read RAW, but I chose not to shoot RAW to save space on my phone when importing.

@mjfalcon007 7 лет назад

Sean Tucker oh ok I took your comment "knock yourself out" the wrong way then lol. No worries Sean thanks for that. Keep up the fantastic content 👍

@jaezryl 7 лет назад

Awesome

@junelopez9520 5 лет назад

Lord

@dunnadidit 7 лет назад

Anyone else almost immediately download Darkroom? Reply 👍 if you tried these techniques! Thanks for the awesome tips Sean!

@vernonalvares8440 3 года назад

Sean... these phone apps make conversion easy ... uve just made it easier !!!.. great tutorial .. cheers, vernon_alvares, mumbai

@graemewhittle1665 6 лет назад

Hi there .... great video. Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out to you but in SnapSeed you do have slider control on the black and white colour filters. Just choose the filter and then move your finger left or right on the image. Thanks again, great info!

@13Stoked 7 лет назад

You're killing it with your channel! Love the calm demeanour and clear guidance. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion! 👍

@oinkooink 3 года назад

Killing it! Super cool! Super excited! Bro! Heads up! Pro tip! Hack! Peace! 100%! Super pumped! Killing it! Smashing it! Bro! Yo!

@beegees21 7 лет назад

Great chanel! Love the mood, quality content. Greetings from Warsaw, Poland (I've seen you visited us lately!).

@christophergrove4876 4 года назад

Interestingly, I believe that B&W imagery AUTOMATICALLY invokes in the brain a sense that "THIS is ACTUALLY photographic ART" that we don't get automatically from a colour image. I would LOVE to get my hands on a "Leica M Monochrom" which has no RGB coloured-filter-dot array over the sensor.

@chriscard6544 Год назад

get a fuji x pro, that leica M is bullshit

@GarnettLeary 7 лет назад

Nice job. I follow your work. You are very talented sir. Keep encouraging folks. You're good at it.

@calebsvids826 7 лет назад

I would like to see a video on your color grading workflow. I'm wondering if any of these same b&w techniques would have a similar effect?

@slawek-thebeginnr5788 7 лет назад

I second that. :)

@mrdev9843 6 лет назад

Just recently started watching this guy's channel and I'm liking it more and more cheers

@channamasala 7 лет назад

Great vid as always. Keep up the fantastic work. Would love to see you colour process. Also, how about a discussion or commentary on photos/artists you like? Famous or not well known it doesn't matterI. I imagine your style, honesty and thoughtfulness would work a treat with your audience.

@wdoodoo1 5 лет назад

Your video is very helpful! Thank you so much! From a hobby photographer from South Korea

@rsh9826 7 лет назад

Honestly, you are so right about quality. I mean you are my favourite photography youtuber. You don't upload often, but every video feels like a work of art. Exquisite content. Love it!!!

@thedadglide5665 4 года назад

Immensely helpful video at how to make great black and white photos. Thanks Sean.

@JoshiaYaziirLeonVega-ds2ws Год назад

I just learn this idea and I'm taking Amazing black and white photographs just on my Track phone!👍🙂

@WilliamLesourd 7 лет назад

Listening to you explaining something, whatever, is always a delight. And your videos and photos are great of course.

@oistories Год назад

I m kinda late to know this tips! Thanks seantuck!

@pgknighton 3 года назад

Thanks Sean. Great video.

@renaldoaggrey7060 Год назад

Adobe lightroom is good aswell

@nahluck 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing your tips. I think I learned something things... great.

@Glasshousebc 5 лет назад

This was an excellent tutorial... used it with snapseed.... great help thank you.

@gavinjmcgrath6983 7 лет назад

Enjoy the instruction but also like your filming style! Well done.

@CollinChan 7 лет назад

Gavin J McGrath couldn't agree more

@moegamatk 7 лет назад

Hi Sean can u please explain to us beginners/hobbyists. Which laptop and monitors to get. I'm using Dell laptop ( i5 with Nvidia 820M 2GB graphics card, 8GB Ram with 1TB 5400rpm HDD) I'm also using a Dell monitor which I hook up to laptop. Im using LR CC, what I'm experiencing is after edit and display on other monitors it does not look the same. It's always a bit darker. Can u please share which is spec laptop is best and also monitor. And also should monitor screen be Matt or Glossy. Thanks

@rodneytopor1846 7 лет назад

Good tutorial, thanks. But Darkroom - Photo Editor by Bergen Co. seems to be iPhone only. I'd rather edit photos on my iPad Mini 4. Currently I'm using Snapseed, which is great. But is Darkroom - Photo Editor also available for iPad, and if not is there a similar app for B&W conversion that improves on Snapseed? Thanks.

@puspenbain45 4 года назад

Thanks for great idea!!

@borispradel1037 4 года назад

Thanks for your tutorial, but that's not really B&W photography. You make it look like an afterthought. Black & White means to work with light, darkness, textures and filters right from the start. Whether you use a film, DSLR or a mirrorless camera (the second shows the final result in real time) you should "see" the world in B&W. I know most digital cameras let you shoot B&W images only in jpg (Raw will always contain color information unless you use an overpriced Leica Monochrome), jpgs are good enough for social media. Shooting directly in B&W is way more challenging as it is quite easy to get overblown highlights, but when done properly gives you such organic images that overprocessed images created by adjusting the color channels (RGB) cannot match.

@luiebr 7 лет назад

Hey Sean i´m @theblack_hunter on Instagram sometimes you like mi pics and that totally flatter me, I´m such a fan of your work and this videos, you´ve helped me a lot improving my skills, so I though would be nice to thank you for all that, I hope you continue with this great work and sharing with us your knowledge. Gracias amigo!

@nagisayoshikawa 7 лет назад

Thanks Sean. I do enjoy your insight into the technical side of photography but I kind of miss your "message" that you are so good at sharing (preaching). The Book (camera) According to Sean. Wish you would smile a bit more, you are a very serious person and for good reason but a simple grin or smile might draw more viewers in. As always thanks and can't wait for next weeks mass.

@PeterArnold1969 7 лет назад

Thanks, Sean. I've always wanted to learn how to properly use the black and white tools in Snapseed to create dramatic black and white shots from colour photos. Your tutorial made a lot of sense.

@alexalexxis170 7 лет назад

Editing images in color. Yes, please!

@pematamang9268 4 года назад

Is it same black and white convert clicking black and white rather than downing saturation slider in Lightroom if I use Lightroom. Confused some photographer say it is better quality if I click black an white rather than. saturation slider?

@scottweaverphotovideo 6 лет назад

You can come up with some very strange, unwanted edge effects by taking blue down. It can result in a silarized edges look. You have to view at 100% to see it. I wish this didn't happen as I almost always darken down skies in my landscape and architectural work.

@Mostafarefaie 7 лет назад

Why don't you use sites like 500px beside Instagram? I mean, I feel like Instagram became more of a photo social media instead of a photographers social media site.

@Geers7Omoorstay 3 года назад

Sean, haven't you considered repeating the content of this video using Photoshop for it? Steps in the video speak of the technique(s) regulating your visualization of the work and it is just that what would be relevant to observe its "how" within the Photoshop environment.

@megamind3339 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for this video Sean. Much appreciated and beautifully done !

@RaissaHeidi 5 лет назад

Great video!! Helped a lot!

@bryangideon5822 2 дня назад

Thank you for a very informative video are you using the free version or is it better to subscribe to the yearly one

@insightvideo6136 2 года назад

Phones have ruined the world of photography.

@chriscard6544 Год назад

or improved, the half glass

@rogersalz4572 7 лет назад

I enjoyed the video and learning about Darkroom; I use Snapseed on my iphone as well. As always your video is well produced and pleasing. Your artful and philosophical discussions about photography, printing, creativity is your strongest card; I hope you will continue inspiring your viewers with your gift. Didn't mind the ad; may look at Squarespace today! Thank you for all you do.

@sanbanrjee 6 лет назад

Sir, in many of your photos, especially in the B&W photos there are brilliant sunbeams captured which increases the drama vigorously. Would you please tell us in a video how to capture the sunbeams/lights in a dslr? It'd be an immense help !

@jaynepriaulx4811 6 лет назад

Hi, have tried to find the Darkroom app but so many variations. Can you please share what the app logo looks like so I can get the correct one. Many thanks.

@techzonetzuk 7 лет назад

Absolutely love your work Sean! Ive been using the black and white colour filter effects on my street shots for Instagram to re-create a film look in my images i wish you made this video sooner Lol ! as i saw some of your x100 shots before and had to go hunting for a way to do this in my own images ! @joshuamaguire02