First attempt with Lightroom 3:
Initial Image:
http://www.uskestrel.com/images/LR3_Raw1-Base.jpg
After tinkering a bit:
http://www.uskestrel.com/images/LR3_Raw1-Edited.jpg
KoalaCowboy Goldmember  More info | Jan 02, 2011 14:26 | #2911 First attempt with Lightroom 3: - -
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rhino1981 Member  54 posts Joined Dec 2010 More info | Jan 02, 2011 15:02 | #2912 [QUOTE=ReubenH;11556858]Oh wow, nice work on the noise! How did you manage that? http://www.flickr.com/photos/infamousrhinoceros/
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ReubenH Senior Member  416 posts Likes: 4 Joined Sep 2010 Location: Queenstown, New Zealand More info | Jan 03, 2011 05:39 | #2913 Nice. Using Lr 3? I hear it does a fantastic job killing noise. I'm on a G5, so can't use Lr 3 though, so poos to adobe. Lr 2.2 has served me fantastically well to date though! "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan.
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fnothaft Senior Member 575 posts Likes: 3 Joined Feb 2010 Location: Oakland, CA More info | Before:  In addition to being really distorted and needing a crop, this photo was way too high contrast... the sky was completely blown out and Hoover Tower was dark. The main orders of business were recovering the blown out sky, and generally recovering detail in the photo. By reducing contrast, I was able to actually recover a significant amount of detail, and the photo got a sort of HDR look (at least, I feel it looks a bit like that). I used split toning as well as a gradient filter in LR3 to bring out more of a sky-blue color in the sky. After:  Final sliders were: Exposure: -0.25 Recovery: 23 Fill Light: 25 Blacks: 0 Brightness: 0 Contrast: -50 Clarity: +100 Vibrance: -2 Saturation: +11 Split Toning Highlights Hue: 211 Split Toning Highlights Saturation: 22 Transform Distortion: +18 Transform Vertical: -39 Rotate: +1.1 Scale: 72 Tone curve was slightly convex. A gradient filter was used to add +55 saturation to the sky. If anyone is on a well calibrated monitor, please help me out: I've got two monitors (laptop monitor and an external monitor), and the laptop monitor shows the final version as having a blue cast, while the external monitor doesn't show an appreciable blue cast. If you could let me know whether you notice a blue cast. I'm a bit worried about how one of my monitors is calibrated, because someone had commented earlier in this thread that some of my photos looked hideously over-saturated, and upon viewing them on one of the monitors, those comments made a lot more sense... Body: Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 • Lenses: Bower 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, Lensbaby 2.0, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 135 f/2L USM • Lighting: Canon Speedlite 580EX II • Support: Dolica CX620B104
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Jan 04, 2011 00:32 | #2915 Great job on the sky and bringing out the shadow detail! Thanks for that! Tony
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JMPhotos "Childhood ruined"  More info | Jan 04, 2011 15:59 | #2916 fnothaft wrote in post #11569149 Before: In addition to being really distorted and needing a crop, this photo was way too high contrast... the sky was completely blown out and Hoover Tower was dark. The main orders of business were recovering the blown out sky, and generally recovering detail in the photo. By reducing contrast, I was able to actually recover a significant amount of detail, and the photo got a sort of HDR look (at least, I feel it looks a bit like that). I used split toning as well as a gradient filter in LR3 to bring out more of a sky-blue color in the sky. After: Final sliders were: Exposure: -0.25 Recovery: 23 Fill Light: 25 Blacks: 0 Brightness: 0 Contrast: -50 Clarity: +100 Vibrance: -2 Saturation: +11 Split Toning Highlights Hue: 211 Split Toning Highlights Saturation: 22 Transform Distortion: +18 Transform Vertical: -39 Rotate: +1.1 Scale: 72 Tone curve was slightly convex. A gradient filter was used to add +55 saturation to the sky. If anyone is on a well calibrated monitor, please help me out: I've got two monitors (laptop monitor and an external monitor), and the laptop monitor shows the final version as having a blue cast, while the external monitor doesn't show an appreciable blue cast. If you could let me know whether you notice a blue cast. I'm a bit worried about how one of my monitors is calibrated, because someone had commented earlier in this thread that some of my photos looked hideously over-saturated, and upon viewing them on one of the monitors, those comments made a lot more sense... to be completely honest with you, i like the before better. the only thing i like about the after is the sky. Other than that the before was way better. Canon 6D, & Sony α6000
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fnothaft Senior Member 575 posts Likes: 3 Joined Feb 2010 Location: Oakland, CA More info | Jan 04, 2011 16:26 | #2917 Dirty Murd wrote in post #11573147 to be completely honest with you, i like the before better. the only thing i like about the after is the sky. Other than that the before was way better. The sky is a large part of the photo Body: Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 • Lenses: Bower 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, Lensbaby 2.0, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 135 f/2L USM • Lighting: Canon Speedlite 580EX II • Support: Dolica CX620B104
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smackitsakic Member 126 posts Joined Mar 2010 More info | Jan 04, 2011 16:57 | #2918 I really, really like this post process job.
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fnothaft Senior Member 575 posts Likes: 3 Joined Feb 2010 Location: Oakland, CA More info | Jan 04, 2011 18:00 | #2919 smackitsakic wrote in post #11573545 I really, really like this post process job. Can you/anyone explain how to get the awesome sun warmth in the top right corner of the post processed image? It looks like they used a gradual filter in LR3 to selectively bump up the exposure in the top right corner of the photo. That'd be my guess. Body: Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 • Lenses: Bower 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, Lensbaby 2.0, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 135 f/2L USM • Lighting: Canon Speedlite 580EX II • Support: Dolica CX620B104
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Jan 04, 2011 23:13 | #2920 Well here is my first time. Still trying to lean the camera let alone Lightroom  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Keith-EOS R 7D MarkII EOS REBEL T2i 18-55,55-250.85 1/8. 100-400L. 10-22 f/3.5-4.5. 24-105mm f/4L IS,70-200 II,RF 24-105
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fnothaft Senior Member 575 posts Likes: 3 Joined Feb 2010 Location: Oakland, CA More info | Dirty Murd wrote in post #11573147 to be completely honest with you, i like the before better. the only thing i like about the after is the sky. Other than that the before was way better. fnothaft wrote in post #11569149 Before: Wound up re-PPing the above photo. I stuck with the photo above, and decided to use it as my sky. I also took the same starter photo, and did a second RAW conversion, which focused on the building instead.  Hoover Tower - Intermediate 2 by Frank Austin Nothaft, on FlickrSliders were: Exposure: +0.55 Recovery: 0 Fill Light: 86 Blacks: 39 Brightness: 0 Contrast: +44 Clarity: +68 Vibrance: -2 Saturation: +11 Tone curve was the default Medium Contrast curve. I know this thread tries to hide PS, but I think the blend of the two is relevant in this case, so I'm showing the final blend, which was simply a layer mask that selected the sky from the first photo, and everything else from the second photo. I'll remove this, if so desired.  Hoover Tower by Frank Austin Nothaft, on FlickrBody: Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 • Lenses: Bower 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, Lensbaby 2.0, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF 135 f/2L USM • Lighting: Canon Speedlite 580EX II • Support: Dolica CX620B104
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DigiNon Senior Member  885 posts Likes: 2 Joined Feb 2010 Location: Tampa More info | Jan 05, 2011 03:34 | #2922 fnothaft wrote in post #11576340 Hoover Tower by Frank Austin Nothaft, on FlickrThis one turned out great. Good job, and I agree on using LR and PS together. It's a great pair to use to get the extra details tweaked. l Mario l AE-1P l EOS 5 l 5Dc l 5DII l 17-40L l 35L l 50 1.4 l 100L l 70-200L II l
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smackitsakic Member 126 posts Joined Mar 2010 More info | Jan 05, 2011 06:42 | #2923 DigiNon wrote in post #11576721 This one turned out great. Good job, and I agree on using LR and PS together. It's a great pair to use to get the extra details tweaked. Agree'd, great job on this final version.
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booja Goldmember 1,638 posts Likes: 103 Joined Jan 2008 Location: houston, tx More info | Jan 05, 2011 23:31 | #2924 using lightroom 3  after 
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Jan 06, 2011 00:27 | #2925 Nice colors! Tony
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but I can understand how you feel. I'm going to play with this photo more, but I don't think the final version is going to come only from raw conversion. I think I'll have to take two different raw conversions (one focusing on the sky, and one focusing on everything else) and manually blend them in PS. Additionally, I plan on reshooting the photo in better light (the sun is directly behind the tower, which was really harsh for shooting).
