Lightroom 2.5 Example
Here is an example of the benefits of using a program such as Adobe's Lightroom (v2.5 in this instance). I have only used one type of processing within this picture, which is the Local Adjustment filter. This is an excellent tool, as it allows specific editing of points, for example, brightening the forground, whilst still darkening the sky exposure and adding shadow detail to one specific tree.
Originally when I took this photo, I was amazed at the beauty of the view, the colours, the atmopshere, it was almost magical. Yet this was totally lost within the stock output photo. I also happened to be tripod-less at the time, so a quality HDR was going to be out of the picture. I was going to bin this picture finally as I couldn't get the process I needed to bring it back to life..
I have been using lightroom now for multiple versions, and I have only just stumbled on this feature myself whilst perusing Lightroom tutorial videos on a Lightroom group. Anyway, I hope this is informative to people, and can maybe enlighten others as too how some people seem to get such excellent results from almost nothing, or those that don't see how one D40X puts out a picture like the top, and another puts out a picture like the the second... (PS I'm not blowing any trumpets here, I just think the change in picture is somewhat astonishing when some development of the article is actually taken on - after all, photographers for years have been developing in darkrooms, why shouldn't the PC and technological age give us our own "Lightroom"!)...
Please take the time to view large & on black
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Enjoy.. thanks for any comments, always appreciate those of you that take the time to leave comments or suggestions.. ta people :)
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Uploaded on Nov 23, 2009
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Circles in the Dark
We walk in darkness, round in circles.. doubling back, recovering the ground we've already trod and forgot.. Every so often a flash of light, the brightness of inspiration, the deep glow of pride, creeps through the cloaked veil of the black to etch its tag, briefly lighting the passage enough to give a bearing.. before the empty returns, leaving only the echoes of your footsteps to lead you toward your chosen path.
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Uploaded on Nov 16, 2009
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Untitled
Everything eventually slips into the past, it's just a wait of how long it takes..
Sometimes it needs something unusual and extraordinary. Sometimes something small and unexpected. Sometimes it comes in multitude, sometimes in solitude.
Myself... I found something pink, and brown, and white. And delicate, like the candle lit night. And it made me smile when the world seemed rile, made me forget my woes for a while...
It became where-ever I could go, where-ever I could see. It became my old and new, it became my love for you.
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Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009
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Bumbling Around
Taken using KingAntz's beast of a lense. Think its a 70-300 Sigma, with macro on 200-300mm. Apperture is f5.6. Seems to work very well and is very reasonably priced, may have to invest!
This was the first test shot I took and it came out the best. Love this hairy little guy! :D
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Uploaded on Sep 13, 2009
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For a brief moment...
A butterfly did enter...
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009
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