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Adding drama to a studio portrait

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Adding drama to a studio portrait

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- [Instructor] Hello, this is Chris, and welcome to Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we will take a look at how we can use Lightroom in order to add drama and depth to a portrait. This is a portrait that I captured just yesterday, and this is the way it appeared out of camera. You can see that it was a mixture of light. There was a window over here, and then there's a little bit of studio light on the subject, kind of giving it a little bit of that pop. And the overall look of the image right now, I think is okay, but I want drama, I want depth, I want this to feel kind of significant. And so, the way that I'm going to do that is, I want to analyze the image. I see a few little problems, the button here, this one over there, I'm going to get rid of those. I also want to go black and white so I have something which is darker and moodier than what we have here in color. So, let's start off by converting this to black and white. To do that, we tap the V key. That then removes…

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