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I was asked how I did the bold Black and White processing of the image in Edge and Shadow so I thought as an exercise I’d write it up…

Obviously this happens to work with this image and this exposure so mileage will definitely vary but it may form a reasonable starting point (Preset) to play and work from for other images.

OK I’ll tackle this by going through the panels in order and highlighting the major settings changed – note these relate to Lightroom 3.X

Basic Panel

First the Saturation was reduced to -100 to desaturate the whole image.
Added a little exposure (+0.25) and quite a bit of Fill Light (+35) and brought up the Blacks (from the default 5 to 25).
The Brightness was reduced (from the default 50 down to 25) and the Contrast bumped (from the default of 25 to 60).
Lastly the Clarity was increased (to +60) to add lots of midtone contrast.

Tone Curve

A steep S curve was implemented to really increase contrast (Highlights (+60), Lights (+15), Darks (-50) and Shadows (-20)

Effects

Some Vignetting was added to further darken the corners

Detail

Finally some Sharpening was applied (Amount 50, Radius 1.2, Detail 25 and Masking 50)

I also applied some selective Spot Removal to remove some blemishes on some of the leaves and some Selective Burning to hide some things I didn’t want there 🙂

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