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PHOTO TIPS: BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
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THE ACTUAL ADJUSTMENTS
As you can see from the previous steps,
increasing every channel 100% makes quite
a drastic change that’s probably a bit too
extreme in most cases. If you’re interested,
the changes I made to get the final image
to the right here were -100% on the Red
channel, which makes the reds darker around the edge of the boat, +76% on the Yellow channel, making the yellow boat lighter, -11% on the Green channel, making the green in the rainbow darker, -11% on the Cyan channel, making the top of the waves a little darker, - 59% on the Blue channel, making the sky darker, and finally +100% on the Magenta channel, making the magenta in the rainbow lighter.
By making some channels darker and other channels lighter, I have increased the dynamic tonal range in the image, making it much more interesting. The key is to either increase or decrease the different colour channels for different results in the shadow and highlight parts of your image.
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