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Category: Lightroom & post-processing

  • Accidents will happen

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    Working on an image I’d taken of some trees, I imported two slightly different Lightroom treatments of that image into Photoshop. My thinking was I might blend them to get something between the two treatments. On a whim I started playing with some different blend combinations and saw one I really liked (a subtractive blend).…

  • Four ways of looking at a building

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    When you look at these images of a building, each taken at a different time of day, notice the different quality of light. How does our mind see times of day out of shades of light? Early morning: Mid day: Sundown: Twilight: . You may have guessed the reveal even without the couple in the…

  • Lightroom Tools

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    WordPress/Lightroom integration WP/LR Sync – for syncing Lightroom to WordPress Lightroom hardware MIDI2LR: An Open Source App That Lets You Use Any MIDI Controller in Lightroom https://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/ There’s really no way to describe the feeling of freedom and lightness you get from using a midi device of knobs or sliders tomake LR adjustments

  • Ansel Adams and Lightroom

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    Ansel Adams developed the Zone System as a tool to help film photographers adjust the tonality and dynamics “seen” by the camera (and envisioned by the photographer) to the “light-space” of the finished photograph. By adjusting the negative’s exposure and development time, he could compress or expand the dynamic range of the scene to “fit”…

  • Lightroom Vibrance

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    Anyone who’s spent a little time with Vibrance in Adobe Lightroom’s Development module knows what a great tool it is. It is “smart saturation”; which is to say it saturates unevenly,  raising the saturation levels of the desaturated colors in the image so as to even out overall color saturation. Taking the slider negative desaturates…