Lightroom Playground - Week 4 - Comments and Questions

[JulieM]

Please post comments and questions regarding The Lightroom Playground - Week 4 challenge here.

[JulieM]

Eddie,

I like the warm golden tones you gave the image. The crop works very well too as it eliminates the gray, lacklustre sky. I'm not sure what I'll do with this one yet but I'll wait until others have had a go at it. Thanks for playing!

[JulieM]

Linda,

Very nice hues in your version too! You and Eddie make me think that it would be fun to pick a spot and photograph it several times during the fall to document how the colors change. I may have to do that next year. Do you have much of a display of colors in the UK?

I wouldn't have thought to clone out the leaf but that really improves the image. How did you like the results with the clone tool? I haven't used it much yet...

[Elemobe]

Eddie, good crop, didn't even think to do that Works well, also like the rich colours which still look natural, unlike mine


Julie, Yes, autumn here is fabulous, especially on a sunny day. So wonderful to look at and surprisingly difficult to capture - although one of my favourite photos is just the floor of the woods, a picture I have actually printed out!

Good idea to take the same scene at different times, I would like to see the results.

I find the cloning tool difficult, mainly because it is so different to PS. I think it is OK for small areas, certainly wouldn't use it for anything major. Good fun though.

[Edmund]

Linda, I like your image also. I'm such a lightroom newbie that I didn't even know it had a clone tool in it's arsnel of tools.
Eddie

[JulieM]

Welcome to the Playground, Rob. You know, I kept looking at that photo and thinking a letterbox type crop might be good. Your "feel like I'm there" approach was bang on. You've captured the damp, dark feeling of the riverside that day...

I'm very glad you're here. I have a feeling we'll learn a lot from you...

[Elemobe]

Really like the way you have cropped that photo, completely changes the image - of course.

[JulieM]

Colin, very cool! How did you do that?

[Codebreaker]

Julie.....

I used the Tone Curve. Pushed the Darks up slightly and the Lights Down. Point Curve is Strong Contrast.

Here's the xmp file for it. I've had to rename as a DOC file to allow it to be uploaded. Just change it back to XMP.

Colin

[JulieM]

Colin,

I'm confused by the xmp file! Sorry to be so dim, but I've barely broken the surface of LR!

First, how did you extract the xmp info from the image? Second, I think it must be the set of "parametric" adjustments which give your submission the white snow-like effect. But what do those correspond to in LR? Finally, when you said to convert the file back to .xmp do you mean I can then magically do something with it?

I clearly have a long way to go to get a handle on this program... Thanks for giving me a push further into it...