thanks all for sticking with me this week.... so very much appreciated... hopefully will have the time and energy to pick up the camera tomorrow night and come up with something new...
Has an atmosphere, and says to me "Stay Indoors", have a coffee and look out, knowing you don't have to be out out in that rain.
Time knowing that feeling, after a change of tack for me I now find I spend days (well my available hours in that day) on a single image, so not always adding content to here on time.
I say "just thinking about it counts" now if we could photograph thoughts?
@isimo tx Rob... i don't really have a consistent formula - so much depends on the original image itself, and what i'm trying to do with it... but basically...
1 - process from RAW in lightroom... often i will increase contrast quite a bit using the tone curve... i will also play with clarity depending on what kind of look i am going for
2 - move the image to nik silver fx... figure out which preset is the best place to start for the particular image... then i might play with the colour filters (red or green most likely), add a vignette (really like how i can place the centre for the vignette in silver fx), maybe tweak contrast, and also structure... i will generally check to ensure i have most of the 10 tonal values in the image...
3 - then back to lightroom for fine tuning... check clipping and make sure the blacks are pure black, and, generally that the whites are just on the cusp of being blown out (unless i'm wanting a pure white look for some reason)... i might add a graduated or radial filter... if there's a bit of the image i really want to draw out of the shadows i'll try adding clarity before exposure... and i will also add split tones in LR... often just to the shadows... although lately i haven't been adding any tones at all
@bill_fe do you have LR5? i don't think it was there in LR4... in LR5, right beside the icon for the grad filter is a circle - that's the radial filter... it works like the grad filter, only it's a circle, or an oval if you prefer... you draw it as you want it, you can move it about, set the rate of feather, and decide whether your adjustments are going to apply inside or outside the circle... it's pretty awesome :)
Time knowing that feeling, after a change of tack for me I now find I spend days (well my available hours in that day) on a single image, so not always adding content to here on time.
I say "just thinking about it counts" now if we could photograph thoughts?
1 - process from RAW in lightroom... often i will increase contrast quite a bit using the tone curve... i will also play with clarity depending on what kind of look i am going for
2 - move the image to nik silver fx... figure out which preset is the best place to start for the particular image... then i might play with the colour filters (red or green most likely), add a vignette (really like how i can place the centre for the vignette in silver fx), maybe tweak contrast, and also structure... i will generally check to ensure i have most of the 10 tonal values in the image...
3 - then back to lightroom for fine tuning... check clipping and make sure the blacks are pure black, and, generally that the whites are just on the cusp of being blown out (unless i'm wanting a pure white look for some reason)... i might add a graduated or radial filter... if there's a bit of the image i really want to draw out of the shadows i'll try adding clarity before exposure... and i will also add split tones in LR... often just to the shadows... although lately i haven't been adding any tones at all
:)