In this post, we’ll be creating what we like to call a contextual preset – a preset that is used in a particular context to enhance your image based on lighting, weather, time of day, season, etc. This particular type of preset is no different technically than any other preset in Lightroom, with the exception […]
I find that what photographers really need aside from specific direction (ie. How do i do XYZ in Lightroom?) is a sense of the big picture, a sense of why we make one decision over another, and how it all fits together. There is a core foundation to any workflow and our favorite resource for […]
Wedding photographers shoot a lot of photos … not just a few hundred – I’m talking thousands of photos per shoot. This has always presented some unique challenges for our studio as we process images or create a gallery for clients to proof our work. One technique that we have found to work exceedingly well […]
I don’t use the Quick Develop Panel. There I said it. I’m as guilty as the next person for having ignored what is truly a powerful tool in Lightroom. Sure I’ve played around with some Alt key trickery but I never really thought of Quick Develop as a valuable part of my workflow … until […]
Slides, slides, and more slides. I have boxes full of them. They’re something very cool about pulling the out some slides and cruising them with my loupe. My favorite outdoor portrait film was Kodak Ektachrome 100GX. The 100GX was important because it would nail the skin tones and primaries in my shots. Deep greens, warm […]
With the summer months fast approaching, the last thing I want to do is spend more time staring at my monitor. Every tip and technique that enables me to speed up my workflow, give me some control over my free time, and still maintain a maniacal hold on image quality is a sweet deal in […]
This past weekend, I was shuffling through one of my boxes of negatives and I came across a big batch of infrared images shot between 1998 and 2003. I was nuts for this stuff! So naturally I unleashed Lightroom to provide the mimicry … and the X=INFRA+READY preset was born! Infra Ready is included in […]
While preparing a series of images for print on a high resolution printer, I found myself obsessing about removing any residual sensor noise or image imperfections from my collection. Normally, I’m pushing images to 72ppi for proofing on the web, which will often downsample out any irritable noise, dust, or imperfections. Not this time – […]
On my everyday camera, anything over ISO400 gets quite noisy. So I decided to embrace the noise – and build a preset to mimic one of my favorite types of film – Kodak Tmax 3200. One thing to keep in mind … This preset leans pretty heavy on the sharpening settings to accentuate the noise. […]
Continuing on with my exploration of the time-saving keyboard shortcut, I have become a huge fan of using the {Alt} key (mac or PC) to quickly access two functions I use daily: Tone Control and Export as Catalog. During my first pass on a large job in the Library module, I not only rate images […]