Matt's B&W Blue sky Preset

[robpendragon]

Heres the link for Matt's Preset of the week. http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/archives/presets/
Again I'm holding off from downloading any for a while, so if anyone tries them feel free to write up a little review here for everyone to read & or post a creation with the preset:D

[JulieM]

I downloaded it earlier today and played with it a bit. Will try to post something later this week...

[mmqc2]

I did a quick before and after using the 'dark' version of the preset

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/16ltH4rDR3i7Gvn21AuzS0rPaQ46_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=16ltH4rDR3i7Gvn21AuzS0rPaQ46)

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1E3UyRK1BuY7K0cVwS4Dsz7ZVGUD20_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1E3UyRK1BuY7K0cVwS4Dsz7ZVGUD20)

Worked best on really blue skies with really white puffy clouds - I had used a polarizer when I took this so the blue sky was really blue - probably a bit too blue even. Anyway I used the preset and a few of the usual curves/clarity tweaks. Looking at it again maybe I should have gone with the medium as the sky's a bit too dark - at least on my monitor.

I think I'll keep this preset on the list...

Nicole

[JulieM]

Nicole, it looks great. I think that was a perfect photo for that preset...