Lightroom 1.1 and D80

Anyone have any "presets" they like or use for LR 1.1?

trying to get a good starting point to get the images a bit more punch/color. They are rather drab when first importing into LR.

Thanks,
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TJ
D80
Nikon 18-200 VR
Nikon 70-300 VR
SB800 & SB600

im new to dslr (slr in general), and also PPing raw files.

I find that I get better and better the more I mess around with lightroom, no one is teaching me. I guess your eye gets trained the more you experiment with diff colors, wb, exp, contrast, sharpening, saturations, etc., etc.

I just hit default before adjusting each picture...i dont really have set presets for batch processing a gang load of pics (unless i shoot for a friends party and dont really care to keep the pics for myself)..sometimes I want to up saturation of diff colors, or up contrast more than other pics and of different colors, etc.

I was "shy" at the levels at first to keep the pics more natural, but then I notice it didn't really do much to the converted pics and looked very bland (not even natural) and worse then jpegs.. so I started going crazy and moving the levels waay more to the left or right and it looks much better.

just my 2 pennies.

Do yourself a favor and get Scott Kelby's book "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for digital photographers".It will save you a lot of time and frustration.

Regards.

yeah, yeah, yeah... figured it was time to take this next step...

Not 100% sure of LR yet... still going back and forth between it and NX.

TJ

tomr said:

Do yourself a favor and get Scott Kelby's book "The Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom for digital photographers".It will save you a lot of time
and frustration.

Regards.

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TJ
D80
Nikon 18-200 VR
Nikon 70-300 VR
SB800 & SB600

tomr said:

Do yourself a favor and get Scott Kelby's book "The Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom for digital photographers".It will save you a lot of time
and frustration.

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Definitely agree. I'm working slowly through the book and am still dealing with learning how to best manage my library, but I'm finding it (the book) very helpful and I absolutely love Lightroom. It's a perfect fit for my needs.

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I was looking for the scott kelly ebook to no avail...but, did end up finding a video tuturial while I was searching, and it is awesome!

Lynda.com - Lightroom Essential Training by Chris Orwig

It's pretty long and detailed, been watching it a few hours for 3 days, and im only half way done. Good stuff...planning on watching his CS3 or CS2 tutorial now.

Thanks... will check this out.

TJ

fooddude said:

I was looking for the scott kelly ebook to no avail...but, did end up
finding a video tuturial while I was searching, and it is awesome!

Lynda.com - Lightroom Essential Training by Chris Orwig

It's pretty long and detailed, been watching it a few hours for 3
days, and im only half way done. Good stuff...planning on watching
his CS3 or CS2 tutorial now.

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TJ
D80
Nikon 18-200 VR
Nikon 70-300 VR
SB800 & SB600

I don't know if it's available as an e-book or not; mine is a real book.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/acrein

I recently found this video link for lightroom.

http://www.whibalhost.com/_Tutorials/Photoshop_LR/06/index.html

I purchased NX about 2 months ago and found it useful. Since then I have been using Lightroom and like it much better.

Cheers

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Nikon D Fifty
Nikon Fifty mm F1.4
Sigma 24-70 F2.8
Nikon Seventy - Three Hundred VR
Nikon SB- Six Hundred

Get Scott Kelbys book,, The Adobeshop Lightroom book for Digital Photographers, its fantastic, Barnes & Noble has it and Amazon has it , about $ 30.00 and worth everey penny of it..
LR 1.1. is a fantadaic program and once you learn to use it, you will love it...