biglouis Posted September 25, 2006 Share #1 Â Posted September 25, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) A view across the skyline to Euston Tower from Eversholt Street. I do so love the split toning capability of Lightroom! Â LouisB Â D-LUX 2 Â [ATTACH]9794[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 25, 2006 Posted September 25, 2006 Hi biglouis, Take a look here Euston Tower from Eversholt Street. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
steve kessel Posted September 25, 2006 Share #2  Posted September 25, 2006 Louis  I like this shot very much, especially pink colours.  I've been attracted to skies lately but find that I get either foreground detail (eg buildings) and bleached out sky, or a good approximation of the sky I see and foreground too under-exposed. Any tips on getting a good compromise by camera controls only - I've had a D-Lux 2 since March.  Thanks  Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share #3  Posted September 25, 2006 Steve  I know exactly what you mean about the issues of exposure between sky and subect and I am still at the enthusiastic novice level myself. Bear in mind I have artificially created the tones in this picture by processing the original colour shot in Lightroom (which I can heartily recommend). By converting to a greyscale and then adjusting the split tone I have been able to increase the exposure of the sky while maintaining the exposure and contrast of the buildings. I find this a lot more difficult to do with colour shots and I'm sure someone here with a lot more experience could explain why.  I only took up photography again as a hobby because I am an experience PC user and have been using graphic packages for years for web images, so I have a slight advantage.  LouisB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve kessel Posted September 25, 2006 Share #4  Posted September 25, 2006 Louis  You had me there!  I remember now reading about how to overcome the problem by taking two exposures - one for sky and one for foreground - and then editing them into one in Photoshop. Trouble is, I'm slow to learn, lazy and much prefer taking pictures to processing them.  What are the main things you prefer about Lightroom over Photoshop?  Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share #5  Posted September 25, 2006 Steve  Truth is that I like them both but for different things. My workflow generally tends to be to open all my images in Lightroom. I mainly shoot RAW on my D-LUX because (maybe I am wrong here, btw) I assume that I can always overcome exposure or lighting issues from a RAW file more easily than a JPEG. I also assume I am getting more information without compression or noise reduction shooting RAW.  I'll often try to get the desired effect in Lightroom which I achieve about 40% of the time.  Whether I am happy or not I will take my partially or fully developed file into PS and then either alter the image size to something more acceptable and save it as JPEG, also converting to sRGB, or I will quite often do further image adjustments - perhaps sharpening or unsharpening - before I complete the picture. I also have some useful add-ins in PS, such as Noise Ninja which I actually use pretty sparingly as it can often soften the picture too much while removing noise.  I've yet to download the new Lightroom Beta 4 so I don't know how much further Lightroom has improved.  Hope my description is of interest. Like you I am learning as I go and no doubt making all sorts of mistakes on the way.  Louis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve kessel Posted September 28, 2006 Share #6  Posted September 28, 2006 Louis  Your description is certainly of interest. Myself I'm still finding my way around the camera and the peripheral stuff.  I've stayed away from RAW so far, put off by the big file sizes, yet shoot in high quality jpeg which is also starting to clog my hard drive - do you have external storage? Haven't managed to calibrate my monitor (I work on a laptop) and prints consequently(?) appear underexposed.  When it comes to photoshop, I twiddle the levels but can't decide whether what I see is an improvement or not.  I was always disappointed with film photography, getting the prints back and not recognising what I saw against the memory of what I took. The D-Lux 2 is great with so many options, I'm really enjoying it.  Cheers  Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted October 1, 2006 Author Share #7 Â Posted October 1, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) last attempt at trying to render the picture the way I saw it when I took it. The low afternoon sunlight made Euston Tower almost fluoresce against the sky seen through a canyon caused by the positioning of the buildings in the foreground. This time I used the history brush to go back and add the original colour to the desaturated original. Â [ATTACH]10342[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejd Posted October 1, 2006 Share #8 Â Posted October 1, 2006 This is a great graphic image. Looks like a poster or drawing rather than a photograph. Very striking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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