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I've been offline working on a new workflow for my pics. (Amongst other things!) Been using Lightroom for a bit and just imported ALL my pics into it. So far, so good!!
This is a test shot of my Lightroom importing notes - testing a new camera with different lenses. The new camera has pretty much the same "innards" as the D7200, but it's full frame. I'm looking forward to seeing what's what. Experimenting is such fun!! :-)
Hope you all are well!! I'll try to catch up asap! :-)
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Digital blending or DRI or Exposure blending.
NO HDR.
First day of work after nice and sweet holidays.
I'm back in urban flux, trafic, polution and stress.
Work= End of contemplation. End of liberty.
This photo shows how we miss the beauty of the world and nature when we work as robots.
Drivers in foreground drive so fast they can't see beautiful landscapes in background.
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Le Suquet is the old quarter of Cannes, probably best known to tourists as the climbing, winding cobbled lane lined with local restaurants, Rue St Antoine. Le Suquet contains a clock tower and church that sit high facing east overlooking the Bay of Cannes and Cannes itself. At the bottom of Le Suquet on Rue Dr. P. Gazagnaire is the Marché Forville, where the market is held in the mornings and early afternoon.
This area is the original fishermans' residential area of Cannes. The houses are all very old. The streets were laid out at least 400 years ago. It is a 5-minute walk from the beach and is full of restaurants around the Rue Saint Antoine and the Rue du Suquet. A lot of the area is pedestrianised and is a major tourist attraction for visitors to Cannes.
The rue du Suquet is the original main road into Cannes. It came in below the walls of the castle (for defence reasons). It is a pedestrian street again and has plenty of restaurants [Wikipedia.org]
The dividers that follow are "inbox", "actions", "agendas", "projects", and "reference". I use the inbox for note taking, and when I process the notes remove them from the section. So if it's working the inbox is close to empty
Oh noes! I realized something was wrong with the workflow I was designing. Went back to sketches and BAM, fixed it.
Creating actions for future weddings is so much fun. Now I have pretty nice workflow developed.
New Presetr Fuji 400H preset as an import preset in Lightroom. Then I run the whole exported JPG folder through automated Photoshop action, which adds two Alienskin Exposure custom presets with film grain and a bit faded toning.
Most important part is the scaling, which I do atm. with the "Bicubic automatic" setting in Ps. It sharpens the grain to look even more like film.
I'm not after film look because it's film, but because it looks 'organic' (=more alive).
Art Deco House Living Room
BEST VIEWED LARGE (click on image)
Image created in the Digital Darkroom.
WORKFLOW:
1) Nikon D300 with Nikkor 18-200VR mounted on Gitzo GT2330 with GH2750QR off-centre ballhead
2) The room was shot in three sequential frames. Lens set at full wide-angle (18mm, f/9, ISO200). Approximate angle of the resulting image series: 140º
3) each frame was shot with three exposure settings.
4) for each image a HDR version was created using Photomatix
5) the three HDR images were stitched together as a panorama in CS3
6) a black and white version of the panorama was created using the SilverEfex plug-in in CS3
7) The black and white version was layered over the colour version and the transparency adjusted to create the slightly faded look and feel. IMO it is easier to work and achieve fine controls when using layers than to use the straight de-saturation option in CS3
8) the border and text were added in CS3 to create the look of a scanned film negative (to avoid possible confusion a fictitious film code was used)
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So today I noticed that the Beta 2 for Adobe Lightroom 3 was out, and I decided to give it a shot. Never really understanding what was that different between LR and Bridge/ACR, I decided to give it a try. What the heck, can't beat the price.
Well, thus far, I love it. I did everything to the image posted here in LR (including uploading it to Flickr!), and it was fairly intuitive for someone already familiar with Bridge/ACR. I LOVE the brushes, too! My only concern is that since I can do so much in LR, I will be lazy and not go into PS when I only anticipate making minor adjustments there.
The second purpose of this post is to invite you all to the Disney Photo Challenge Group. While I'm sure many of you are already members, for those who aren't, this is a light-hearted group with topical challenges. It's not an ordinary "awards" group nor is it a critique group. It's more a fun and community type group...it also happens to be my favorite group on Flickr. So if you haven't checked it out, give it a shot; you might have a good time there, too!
Karolina & Jacek - wedding session at Gdynia Orłowo
I must admit that I developed Delicious Recipes firstly for myself ;)
I just couldn't stand so many hours it took me to create satisfying colors through Capture NX2, so I struggled to find other way for processing with my beloved colors. And finally I developed them in Lightroom 4 with Color Efex Pro :)
Now I have such an easy way to get my RAW files developed. Now it takes 4-7 hours of work from import to LR to export for a 380-450 wedding. ( Time depends on lighting conditions and retouch needed ). Before, in CaptureNX 2 it took me rather 20-35 hours and it was definitely worth it, as colors were brilliant, but so time-consuming!
I share all the details of my actual workflow for Lightroom 4/5 + Color Efex Pro 4 in Delicious Recipes. All the instructions and tips, combined with all the recipes and presets needed to get beautiful results fast:
www.deliciouspresets.com/delicious-recipes-lightroom-colo...
Still life vegetables in preparation for the salsa.
One Canon 600EX-RT, camera left, bounced off the ceiling, at full power.
WORKFLOW:
5 exposures merge to HDR in CS4, save as 32bit Radiance
Toned mapped in Photomatix 3, Save as 8bit Tiff
Adjusted levels, Hi Pass, Noise Reduction, Borders and Texts in CS4, save as Jpg
The Notre-Dame-d'Espérance church (Eglise du Suquet) is a Catholic parish church located in the town of Cannes, France.
It is dedicated to Notre-Dame on the Place de la Castre in the Suquet district, and has been classified as a historical monument since July 28, 1937 [Wikipedia.org]
Workflow: Negs processed by apetureuk.com
Raw file scanned with Reflecta RPS 10m @ 2,500dpi
Imported to Lightroom, then 'edit copy in Photoshop' selected. Colorperfect filter applied in Photoshop then saved. Colour, sharpness and N/R applied in Lightroom.
The workflow for a particular project had to be documented for all of the different parties to approve and sign off on. Completed in 2004
Ok, it's obvious that RAW handles a bit different when playing with rgb curves. My latest workflow test is all about editing the RAW into a bit overexposed jpg. Then I import the JPG:s to the Lightroom and add the color preset. The tonal difference is quite big actually compared to the raw. The colors get more pastel like look and the image somehow glows, a bit like overexposed film does. Editing the raw to get the same feeling, you must edit curves differently for each image, it takes time and often the result isn't even as good.
So I start by picking up the good frames, then fast edits: straighten horizon, fixing the exposure and maybe open up a bit shadows. Then I export the edited RAWs into JPG:s and import them again to LR with the chosen preset. Second export. Done.
My presets can be found at: www.presetr.com