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For the natural-light shooters: A Lightroom preset collection

  • 28-10-2009 10:14pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


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

















    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    Nope.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    elven wrote: »
    do you shoot 'to the right' (of the histogram) when you use those?

    Whats a histogram?? :p:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭AnimalRights


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

    I use this site for presets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    Blown out highlights on faces are my nemesis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    stay away from shiny people!

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭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).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


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

    I use this site for presets.

    Great site thanks !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭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:

    1.jpg

    2.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭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.

    39EAF785A7CC4C35A66167B4306DC2F9-800.jpg
    Worst case scenario and b4 I really knew what pictures I could get away with it on.

    4B82B6369FD6465BB7C347B17DDB16BC-800.jpg
    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. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Fionn


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


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭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.


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