Mull and Lightroom 2

thebigsky

Ok so I finally finished the bulk of my PP from Mull and then Lightroom 2 comes out and now I want to do them all again.

I have to say I'm really liking LR2's ability to make localised changes to exposure, saturation, contrast etc.

Here's one I've been working on, no photoshop on this one:-



I like it, though I may have overdone it here and there :wink

And here's a B/W tint:-



Charlie

PHOTOempt

thebigsky wrote:

Ok so I finally finished the bulk of my PP from Mull and then Lightroom 2 comes out and now I want to do them all again.

I have to say I'm really liking LR2's ability to make localised changes to exposure, saturation, contrast etc.

Here's one I've been working on, no photoshop on this one:-



I like it, though I may have overdone it here and there

Charlie

That's really nice, Charlie - congratulations! Sarah

Darren Troy C

Looking to get LR2 myself in a few weeks! Great image!

thebigsky

PHOTOempt wrote:

That's really nice, Charlie - congratulations! Sarah

Thanks Sarah, have you started packing, you must be getting quite excited!

Charlie

thebigsky

Idlewild wrote:

Looking to get LR2 myself in a few weeks! Great image!

I have to say I really like it, I've always found PS counter intuitive whereas LR seems to 'fit.'

Charlie

thebigsky

Here's a B/W tint done entirely in LR 2, a bit rough around the edges but I like the overall mood:-



Charlie

WildWally

I am curious . How did you go about this rendition in LR2 ???
Wonderful !!!!

thebigsky wrote:

Here's a B/W tint done entirely in LR 2, a bit rough around the edges but I like the overall mood:-



Charlie

schmoo

thebigsky wrote:

Here's a B/W tint done entirely in LR 2, a bit rough around the edges but I like the overall mood:-



Charlie

I love this shot!!! I know that it was a little brighter there at the time but wow what a great interpretation of that evening.

Thanks so much for bringing back a taste of this wonderful trip months later. Sarah was right about the memory banks thing.

thebigsky

WildWally wrote:

I am curious . How did you go about this rendition in LR2 ???
Wonderful !!!!

Thanks Wild Wally

I created a preset a while ago before LR 2 came out, I think it was based around the built in sepia preset but then I made quite a few changes.

I applied that, then I did some experimenting with the new masking to make some localised changes to exposure, brightness, contrast etc.

Finally I applied some subtle toning in the shadow areas using the split toning module and some vignetting.

Charlie

thebigsky

schmoo wrote:

I love this shot!!! I know that it was a little brighter there at the time but wow what a great interpretation of that evening.

Thanks so much for bringing back a taste of this wonderful trip months later. Sarah was right about the memory banks thing.

Thanks Schmoo, I'm getting increasingly fed up not having any landscape of interest to shoot, at least of interest to me, I suppose familiarity breeds contempt and I can't find any motivation to shoot where I live.

Fiddling with these old shots cheers me up a bit, I think this evening in Croig was my favourite, it was just a perfect evening of relaxed shooting with great people and great scenery.

And of course Disco Duck

Charlie

thebigsky

I'm still experimenting with LR 2, here's another creation in a similar vein to the shot above.

Eeek, I've had my first ever hangs with LR since upgrading to version 2, which is a bit of a pain.



Charlie

schmoo

thebigsky wrote:

Thanks Schmoo, I'm getting increasingly fed up not having any landscape of interest to shoot, at least of interest to me, I suppose familiarity breeds contempt and I can't find any motivation to shoot where I live.

Fiddling with these old shots cheers me up a bit, I think this evening in Croig was my favourite, it was just a perfect evening of relaxed shooting with great people and great scenery.

And of course Disco Duck

Charlie

I had forgotten about that movie! I was so confused about the duck at the time and I know better than the believe everything people tell me on a workshop.

I hear you on the landscapes. It's all how you look at things though. I tend to be a bit negative when it comes to shooting locally. I know that there many nice things to shoot even where I live, as is often shown by the stunning work of local (to me) photogs here on Dgrin and I always feel quite lame seeing their friends views on a land I thought I knew so well.

It is certainly so much easier to find things to photograph in a new country with new friends, that's for sure. But of course such a great opportunity happens less often than we'd like in our lives!

I love your final addition here. It almost looks like an IR shot -- which is perfect considering it was midday. Great work and I love how you keep bringing us back to Mull with your threads.