Brookgreen Gardens

Not sure if this is the place for these or not. If its not please let me know.

Second ever attempt at Lightroom and RAW files. Still not confident with the whole RAW process.

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Nicely captured.

#1 and #3 are complete winners.

#2 is a shot that I would suggest increasing the "blacks" slider in LR to see how you might like the result. It took me a while using LR to find that one and it works wonders for certain shots.

cheers

kb

Very nice! Keep it up with LR and RAW -- and don't look back! I do have a few suggestions. On the first one, I find the water drops on the left very distracting and would suggest you get those out. In fact, you can crop them out and get the flower off the dead-center of your image, which is easy to do non-destructively in LR simply by using the crop tool. (You may want to acquaint yourself with that trick for the fourth, fifth and sixth ones, too, since they also have the main object dead-center.) You might want to use the fourth one as a good one to for playing around with curves in LR. It could use some bump in the contrast, I think. You could use the contrast slider, but I think you might learn more about LR by trying to get it with curves. I really like the composition of the one with the bee because you don't have everything dead-center and the eye follows the first flower to the second one in the back. If you were really trying to get the bee, well, I'm not sure you made the little fella much of an object of the photo. But I still like it just for the comp. The second photo just doesn't do much, I think. There's a narrow band of focus in the middle but a lot of blur in the front and back. Don't know that there's much you can do with that one in LR, since it seems you were going with way too shallow a depth of field if you were trying to say something about all of the flowers. Furthermore, that one really doesn't give the eye anything upon which to focus. Keep up he good work!

fr4nk wrote in post #12937161
Nicely captured.

Thank you

kbColorado wrote in post #12939760
#1 and #3 are complete winners.

#2 is a shot that I would suggest increasing the "blacks" slider in LR to see how you might like the result. It took me a while using LR to find that one and it works wonders for certain shots.

cheers

kb

Thank you and I will give that a try this evening if I get a chance.

Randy1213 wrote in post #12940292
Very nice! Keep it up with LR and RAW -- and don't look back! I do have a few suggestions. On the first one, I find the water drops on the left very distracting and would suggest you get those out. In fact, you can crop them out and get the flower off the dead-center of your image, which is easy to do non-destructively in LR simply by using the crop tool. (You may want to acquaint yourself with that trick for the fourth, fifth and sixth ones, too, since they also have the main object dead-center.) You might want to use the fourth one as a good one to for playing around with curves in LR. It could use some bump in the contrast, I think. You could use the contrast slider, but I think you might learn more about LR by trying to get it with curves. I really like the composition of the one with the bee because you don't have everything dead-center and the eye follows the first flower to the second one in the back. If you were really trying to get the bee, well, I'm not sure you made the little fella much of an object of the photo. But I still like it just for the comp. The second photo just doesn't do much, I think. There's a narrow band of focus in the middle but a lot of blur in the front and back. Don't know that there's much you can do with that one in LR, since it seems you were going with way too shallow a depth of field if you were trying to say something about all of the flowers. Furthermore, that one really doesn't give the eye anything upon which to focus. Keep up he good work!

Thank you very much for the detailed response. I will try out the things mentioned and hopefully post some results here.

If anyone else has any feedback please let it be known. I am all ears (eyes).

Very nice! There's definitely a lot to learn with Lightroom, but it's such a great tool for processing and managing photos. In addition to the helpful replies of others I would also suggest increasing the exposure value a little on #5...it looks a tad under-exposed to me.

I love the lotus in #1.

Okay here are some crops:

Cropped and bumped up the exposure some

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Looking very nice on my monitor! I love the moth or butterfly shots...all three crops of it look great.

Great results !

I think the crop on PPRAW20 is a little tight on the left side but that's a minor quibble on a great shot.


cheers

kb

Randy really helped you out. The crops really improved the images.

Thanks everyone.

And yes, Randy led the way with the comments and suggested improvements. Thank you very much for doing so. This gave me a little more to think of (in a good way) when I go out and shoot again.