Experimented in LR5 today with what was a pretty poor shot originally in terms of lighting. I have a new all-manual wide angle lens, and I want to start using it for some landscape or city scenes. I don't really have a cool landscape being in the "burbs" but next to our school is the old Mansell place and there has been a home moved on the property (in fact, much of the old farm is being relocated across the street). The weather was not very good, so I just took my shot and told myself it would provide some interesting time with LR because I shot it in RAW this time.
My edits included:
B&W preset red filter
Exposure adjustments
Graduated Filter adjustments (tool--still really don't know what I'm doing there, but it was fun to try)
Contrast, clarity, and luminance smoothing.
Will get back to my "catalogue" issues soon. I have to stop whining. I'm still having fun for goodness sakes! :)
this has a wonderfully dramatic feel to it... kinda like Dorothy's house about to be picked up by the tornado :) good for you for tackling RAW in LR - sounds like you're off to a good start!
@northy Thanks. I'm still an organizational freaking nightmare, but I'm just going ahead regardless. Need to learn appropriate export sizes for saving the JPEG fill after edits, but I just need to get a book I think. This program does sooooo much and I want to use it to its potential. I'm really just scratching surface, but one step at a time. Thanks for your help last week too! :)
