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What exactly are you using in LR to achieve these effects? I mean if you want to share
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It's tough to really explain because I play around with almost everything and it differs from picture to picture.
On the landscape shots, I usually do the following
1. Adjust exposure. I usually bump the total exposure till I get enough detail in the shadowed areas then fine tune.
2. Add a graduated neutral density style filter (not sure what they call it in lightroom) to help bring the exposure back in the sky.
3. play with levels to get the contrast right. Usually I just darken the shadows and lighten the highlights a bit
4. Sharpen
5. White balance and then split tone if I'm not happy with the color cast.
6. Fine tune with brushes (local areas adjustments, dodge and burn, whatever you want to call it) where I see fit. For that one I put a brush on the mountains that helped correct the exposure, added a little clarity, added a little more sharpening, etc.
7. Clone out distracting elements. The only thing I cloned in that one was a dust spot near the top left though.
Even in that last one I can see things I'd like to do better. There are rays of sunlight coming from between the mountains but you can barely make them out. If I could bring them out more it would really help the image. Plus I'd like to make the foreground stand out more. The outcropping at the bottom left blends in to the mid-ground too much. It's too dark, I might be able to get more detail out of those trees. I may try it again with bracketed images to see if I can get a better outcome.Last edited by Withers; 01-31-2013, 12:48 PM.Comment
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January 31st, 2013
decided to choose a hopeless case and see how much I could salvage it. I couldn't recover all the highlights but still, not bad.
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slackin man I am waiting for the updates to this thread...Comment
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aw crap, i forgot to update this one. Ok hang on, pic overload incomingComment
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catching up...
I tried to do a fraps video of one of my edits but the file size was enormous and it kept getting split after about 1:30 or so. By the time I had done 2 videos they had taken up 76 gigs on my hard drive
anyway,
February 1st, 2013
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good job on that miniFloccinaucinihilipilification
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February 8th, 2013
and so the circle completes itself, with my old camera taking a picture of its replacement
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February 9th, 2013
trying out a new lighting setup on my frog tank
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