The Mount is a feature in many Bay of Plenty scenes and looks very different depending on where you view it from. On my way home from work today I took a little detour to take this photo. Then I processed with Lightroom to achieve this image.
This is really lovely John! Could I ask you a question please. Do you find Lightroom easy to use. I've just bought a new Laptop for travelling and I can't get my current editing program onto it - so I'm thinking of going with Lightroom. Would you recommend it? If you are short on time please don't worry about answering this!!
@robz Rob THanks for your comments and question this is the raw image out of camera https://365project.org/nzkites/extras/2018-06-27 I use Light room for all my editing and it works well and is nondestructive (you can undo anything later or make virtual copies etc. it is also great for organising images. The borders that we put on are not done in Lightroom. What program were you using before? Lots of tutorials on the net on Lightroom to help get used to it. If Janice or I can help let us know how.
@nzkites Thanks so much for your answer John. I'm using a very old program (handed down from my daughter) called Microsoft Digital Image Pro. I quite like using it and it does pretty well everything I want but it comes on a CD -and new laptops don't have CD players. Do you not like the borders on Lightroom? Also - I like to do a lot with partial and gradual transparencies to make composites etc - is lightroom user friendly for that? I do appreciate your help - thanks again so much. Rob
@robz You were using the same one I used to use. It was a good program. Re borders on Lightroom I'm not sure if it has any we use Photo shop for that probably out of habit. You cant do layers on the version of Light room we have we use Photoshop if we need to. I think you may be best to look at Photoshop Elements as that does layers and organises your photos. I have been looking at that option as it is lots cheaper than Photoshop especially now that you have to subscribe to the full version. Elements can be bought outright and is not expensive and I think it would do everything most people would want to do. Do you shoot Raw or JPG images?
