Those are some great shots. Getting good people photographs is a
goal of mine. Landscapes come natural to me, people do not.
Thanks! They are definitely different skill sets. I'm working on my landscapes, because people at art shows don't buy photos of hot models.
OTOH, models are an awful lot of fun to shoot.
You are getting good results from lightroom.
I've been playing with it for about two months now. I keep learning new things, so clearly there's room to grow.
I can appreciate the
RAW processing power of lightroom. I have need for more editing
power. Light room would only be a first step, then I must go to a
full editor.
For some things, that will always be necessary. But I suspect you could get 90% of the way there with this image in Lightroom.
In this particular picture, the forground rock was way too bright,
how do you adjust the exposure on that in lightroom without dimming
the remaining highlights?
If you selected just the rock with the lasso or another tool, there is no equivalent. But there is a very powerful tool in Lightroom for adjusting highlights, midtones and shadows.
I selectively burned the sky to make it more dramatic, how do you
optimize the exposure of one part of the picture without effecting
the remaining in lightroom?
Without access to your RAW file, I can't know for certain. But it wouldn't surprise me if I could come awful close to your results with lightroom alone. I'm not asking you to send me your file, though. I know I, for one, don't like giving those out.
I used USM 20, 40, 0 as a clarifying step to remove the haze.
Lightroom?
I've found that most of the different sharpening techniques just reinvent the wheel. It has a decent sharpening tool that gives you enough control for the vast majority of photos. I've seen way too many oversharpened photos since digital photography went mainstream.
I used a two layer selective sharpening on the forground USM and
High Pass, but not the background and sky. Lightroom?
Does DPP do this? Bibble? Aperture? Does any RAW workflow tool do it? It's a bit like asking if a Porsche can tow a boat. Different tools for different jobs.
Lightroom is a fast and powerful RAW development tool, but I need
the remaining editing tools.
Yes, and it's not meant to replace Photoshop for the images you want to put extra work into. It's for the 99% that you don't, but you still want to look great.
