#lightroom classic

[gon-iii]

俯く花

2015年、浜離宮恩賜庭園。

俯いて咲く水仙たちは何を思う……。

[pnwander]

quick & easy lightroom walkthrough or: shooting through dirty double-paned glass, and other hardships.

I'll tell you! (Original post here.)

✱ KIT Panasonic GH5 + LEICA DG 100-400 with rubber hood for shooting through windows.* ✱ SHUTTER 1/125 sec ✱ APERTURE f/6.3 ✱ ISO 1600

*I use this one. It works for me, but it's a little tricky. It was a gift, and I think if choosing for myself I'd find something easier to get on and off.

WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? It was cold outside, obviously. And the flickers bolt if I try to open the back door, so sometimes I'll post up in front of my dining room window and just get the best shot I can. I do this less and less these days, now that my arthritic hands and I have heated gloves. The 'after' photo is a brand new re-edit using better tools than were available when this was shot. I was never happy with how it looked, before now.

under the cut: EDITS

✱ Detail: Sharpness & Noise Reduction My main problem here is sharpness. The photo is in focus, but because I'm shooting through a thick storm window, I've lost that tack-sharpness I really want, and I have a whole bunch of noise to contend with. This would always be the case, but worse depending on the camera you're using, and in my case this was two generations ago - the GH5. I have tested window shots with the GH7, and they're a lot cleaner.

That being said, the trick is to always, always, always use masking along with sharpening. Like, a lot of masking, just so much masking, so that you avoid sharpening an already-noisy background. In Lightroom, you can hold down down the ALT key while using the masking slider to visualize exactly what is being sharpened.

I'm choosing to leave the background noisier than I prefer, because even if I mask out the background, as I increase noise reduction, I lose detail in the edges. Leaving some noise in the feathers also preserves that sense of sharpness, generally.

This is a matter of personal preference and priority in your edits. I've had students absolutely hammer their photos with denoise and like it that way, and that is totally their call. I like it sharp.

Note: you could also do the sharpening/noise reduction at the end, after all your other edits, so that you have a better sense of how much you still need after toning. That's often my preference. I probably went backwards here only because I've edited this image before and had it pre-loaded in my brain.

✱ Tone Dehaze is the real MVP here. You could go even harder than I have on -blacks/+clarity/+dehaze, for a dramatic, crushed look. I decided to strike a balance between the soft darks I prefer but the clarity absolutely needed to make this look less smooshy. And my curve is pretty gentle.

Before toning and after:

(You can see that I've also done some color grading. But because that part is entirely personal preference, I'm skipping it here.)

✱ Selective Adjustments With a photo as flattened as this one, I always want to add some depth to it with masking. I have just three masks in this case:

1. The tree was blown out, detracting from my subject and looking, frankly, unrealistic. So I've darkened this on its own, so that my subject will stand out.

2. Contrast, texture, and clarity to bring out the detail in the feathers; a touch of saturation because the global color grading I wanted took away slightly from the bird's natural coloring. I want this on a mask, and not globally, because I do not want to exacerbate the noise in the background, or the texture of the leaves and snow.

And 3., to make the flicker really pop, I've got a 'spotlight' mask

...which is working together with a light vignette to draw the eye to the subject. You could also create an asymmetrical vignette with an inverted -exposure mask, if you needed to.

All together now...

And that's it!

As always, please feel absolutely free to send any questions to my ask box. I try to watch for comments and questions in the tags, but sometimes they get missed. And if there are any other edits you'd like to see, let me know!

Find my other walkthrough here.

[ds-vibes]

[kianclarkyetyet]

Happy Women's Day Everyone ♀️

[whoknowsflo]

Fly me to the moon...

[gametastic-photography]

I really got nothing today so here's a preview of today's edit.

I have a bunch of wonderful photos in my queue, but with this learning curve of learning Lightroom Classic, it might take a while to get out photos since I'm taking this from a more professional standpoint opposed to just a hobby.

I still have a lot of learning to do as well.

My photos that are already edited go till like 10 days from now. 2 posts or so a day and weekends being highlights/posts I find better. And now everything is queued to schedule at night, as it seems most people interacting have been doing so while I sleep.

I want to thank you for supporting my work! Whether you do or not, it makes me pleased to see people interact, and there is still enjoyment in this fandom for the characters, the ships, the world, everything. I enjoy reblogs and comments the most. I would love to hear what you have to say rather than just simply pressing a like button. (Don't worry, I get it, I lurk too) but if you enjoy my work, please tell me. Your comments (even in tags) give me that extra push to know im doing good.

I will try to make people happy, even though if a post has one reblog. that means someone said 'hey I like this enough to put on my page'

my blog is going through alot of changes in the past week and it all depends on my mood and whether I finally decided on something or not (Like reblogging on diferent blog) So I apologize for randomly deleted posts and so on. Memes are not such a 'me' thing. I hope you understand.

[sasasan3]

ストップモーションアニメ

「HEART」

2023.06

[shoucloudlord]

It's Halloween and as a photography student I went out and did some photos with a friend last night. I'm very happy and proud of this image. HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE.

[walking-power-generator]

love it when I spend hours trying to make a negative look good then absent mindedly switch to another one and apply a preset making it look perfect aaahhhhhhhshdjdhjsjdjdjd

[seandugganphoto]

Corner of Bourbon & Bienville Streets New Orleans 1996

I have several rolls of B&W from this trip to New Orleans in 1996 and except for the original contact sheets, this is the first time that I've worked with these images. I've configured my camera scanning gear so I can easily do it at any time, without having to set it up each time. With a tethered camera connection, the images automatically appear in Lightroom Classic so I can see them right away on a larger screen. This makes it very easy to quickly re-visit older negatives. 

[judafodi]

Soñaba con hacer fotos así y ahora lo estoy logrando 💖

[gon-iii]

波紋に揺れる

2016年、浄智寺。

鉢にいけられた椿が、落ちる雫の波紋に揺れる。

[starrinlem]

[terakopian]

18th annual Black & White Spider Awards

Absolutely thrilled to share that six of my images have been chosen by the jury of the 18th annual Black & White Spider Awards. Honorable Mention in People | Conversations With Dimension Deep Conversations. Paris Baguette in the newly renovated and re-opened Battersea Power Station, London, UK. November 03, 2022. Photo: Edmond Terakopian. Lumix LX100 Mk2. Honorable Mention in Abstract |…

[ryansportfolio]

[newgenrephotography]

Hazy Soft Light / Lightroom Preset

So, I was in the mood to edit some pictures today. In the process, I ended up making this preset.

I was aiming for a "fairytale-esque" style and I definitely think I got that spot on.

This preset has a very smooth light to it, it also skin softens.

I would not recommend using this on EVERY picture but it is definitely a nice preset to have for any soft outdoors pictures. I also tested it on some sports photography and concert photography and it looks really nice on those as well! It has a lot of different uses.

Where to download: patreon.com/NewGenrePhotography