Today i decide to write something about my photo and workflow. I want to show you the power of Lightroom.
In internet there is so much people asking "Oh, what should i choose? Which is better? Lightroom or Photoshop?" These are two completly diffrent programmes with diffrent capabilities, and of course you can do so much more using Photoshop - layers, brushes etc. Lightroom is mostly used to sort photos and make useful archive. When I'm using Lightroom i can find any photo at any time. But Lightroom is not only for sorting photos, the most important thing is working on RAW files. In this post I don't want to compare RAW and JPG, becouse almost everything is already said about that.
So, let's get to the point. This is my RAW photo:
(Well, technically there's no possibility to put raw photo here, or even see RAW photo, but it's shortcut for photo untouched with LR or PS)
And the thing is, i haven't even touched that photo with Photoshop. Not at all. Any smallest move or anything. Just straight from Lightroom. For many it will be like "yeah, okay, nothing special, get to the point", but when I see lots of photos on Facebook, Instagram, or even on Steemit, which are after Lightroom I think "Did you even do anything with this photo?" It looks like straight from camera JPG!".
Here what i done with this photo:
- Camera Calibrations tab. You musn't necessarily use it to calibrate your camera. Mess around with those sliders and see the magic
- Use adjustment brush. You can use it similar to layers in Photoshop. Bring the highlights down, put some clarity in some place, extract the subject with clarity, all that you can do it just with this brush.
- Color option in adjustment brush - It works similar to covering color in PS. You can use it for example to make teal - orange contrast.
Have you got any expierience or tips with that?
Follow, comment and resteem :)
Camera | Nikon D600
| Lens | Primotar 135/3.5 with M42 extension tube |
|---|---|
| Aperture | f/3.5 |
| Shutter | 1/250s |
| ISO | 200 |