For the natural-light shooters: A Lightroom preset collection

Fenster

http://www.newworldphotos.net/blog/archives/1541/

Follow the link for more information. This set are the core presets I use in processing my images, in order to achieve that 'bright/faded' look. There are five in total.

Fajitas!

I hope they're not the ones you used in 'that wedding'...

















:pac:

Fenster

Nope.

elven

do you shoot 'to the right' (of the histogram) when you use those?

Fenster

I spray and pra...I mean...it depends on the circumstances. I try to shoot to the middle or left for the sake of managing highlights.

mikeanywhere

elven wrote: »

do you shoot 'to the right' (of the histogram) when you use those?

Whats a histogram??

AnimalRights

http://www.profiphotos.com/blog/

I use this site for presets.

elven

I find when i use my presets that make everything look light and fresh like that, it's better if i've over exposed by maybe a third of a stop - if i let the camera expose how it wants thy end up a bit darker and when i'm processing like that it shows up noise in the shadows that wasn't there in the first place. You've also got loads more latitude with raw than you think, and unless you've blown out everything that's vaguely pale it's far nicer to pull the highlights down than to fill the shadows. In my experience/humble opinion/etc. I'm also using the highlight priority mode in the 5dii but tbh I haven't seen a huge difference.

Fenster

Blown out highlights on faces are my nemesis.

elven

stay away from shiny people!

Spose you don't have that big softbox in the sky over there that we have in ireland...

Fenster

elven wrote: »

stay away from shiny people!

Spose you don't have that big softbox in the sky over there that we have in ireland...

I wish. The figure I see bandied about for 'annual days of sunshine in Las Vegas' is >300, and while it makes for great colours and guarantees a good shoot, it is an absolute pisser when it comes to battling highlights. While I try to shoot left..well you saw yourself that the presets work best with bright light. There's a reason for that.

I'm working on a similar set of presets for shooting a shaded foreground person against a bright backdrop (look at my recent portraits here).

Chorcai

AnimalRights wrote: »

http://www.profiphotos.com/blog/

I use this site for presets.

Great site thanks !

Fenster

Here are two sample images from the preset I am tweaking now. The intent is that it will help fix photos taken in bad daylight, or in shadow:

AnimalRights

While I'm not mad on the final result it most certainly does the job when compared to the previous one.
I used 300 lots until I too noticed the blown highlights failure of it, you need a certain picture to be able to use it, anyway I've fallen in love with the topaz rip off 'another world' Only thing I hate about it is half the time it leaves a line around the person like an exaggerated halo.


Worst case scenario and b4 I really knew what pictures I could get away with it on.


Almost get away with it here, its the highlighted arms that is the give away, I've started to fiddle with the manual settings after using a preset these days anyhow so.

Fionn

i've tried lightroom again - but cant seem to take to it, maybe it's me!!

melekalikimaka

lots of naf plug ins, i downloaded over 500
and nearly all are tacky or xpro rips, or shoddy bws. the workflow is unreal in it, get going in it and you'll never look back, same control as ps, just easier

Kintarō Hattori

I stayed away from Lightroom for a long time as it was a case of fearing the unknown. I got it a while ago and have never looked back, it's brilliant. So easy to manage your photos, process them and generally enjoy the whole thing.

Incidentally while I haven't downloaded any presets I did get a fantastic one from a user here a while back and have used it on a few images:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamandagnieszka/4044341677/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamandagnieszka/4038832896/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamandagnieszka/4038831216/

They may not be everyones cup of tea but I really like them and it does make me realize I should go looking for presets...................... but I usually forget about it. D'oh.