Barbecue

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1. jay
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 10:30 am | Permalink

   She’s too shy to look at that big barbecue

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2. Robin Kelsey
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 11:04 am | Permalink

   Well who wouldn’t be!

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3. Milan
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

   How do you get this high-saturation look? Filters? Camera settings? Post-exposure processing? Some combination?

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4. Robin Kelsey
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

   Post-processing in Lightroom.

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5. Milan
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

   Mostly increasing the contrast and saturation, or do you do other things as well?

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6. Robin Kelsey
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 9:45 pm | Permalink

   Hi Milan,
   I have no secrets :)

   This photo has had the following applied to it:
   +.15 exposure (Brightens)
   100 Recovery (Recovers detail from highlights)
   52 Fill light (Reveals detail in shadows)
   67 black boost (Makes colours richer)
   -5 contrast
   +65 Clarity (boosts mid-level contrast)
   +15 Vibrance (boosts colours)
   No added saturation
   118 sharpening, 1.0 radius, 25 detail, 15 masking
   -29 vignetting

   I enjoy fooling around until I like the look. If I really like the look, Lightroom allows you to save the settings as a preset which you can apply to other photos.

   I really like Lightroom.

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7. Ruhh
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

   I’ll have to check out lightroom someday. I’m stuck in PhotoShop.

   Great processing indeed but it takes a great photo like this to deserve suck luxurious treatment!

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8. Milan
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

   The Highlight/Shadow tool is definitely the most useful addition to Photoshop CS.

   One of these days, I will need to find a copy of CS 2, 3, or 4. The HDR feature might be especially interesting.

   It’s neat that Lightroom has a specific function for reducing vignetting.

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9. Robin Kelsey
   Posted December 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

   Actually it can either increase or reduce vignetting. -29 means vignetting has been added. Plus values reduce it – that is, they lighten the corners.

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10. Milan
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

    Does it detect where existing vignetting is, or does it give you a tool to select the appropriate area?

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11. Robin Kelsey
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

    In vignetting, you can set amount, midpoint, roundness, and feather. It’s not so much lens correction as an effect you can apply. That’s how I use it anyway.

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12. Milan
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 11:01 pm | Permalink

    I see.

    More often, I have problems with the presence of vignetting, rather than a desire to add it.

    That is especially true when using the polarizer on my 28-105.

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13. Robin Kelsey
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    Positive vignetting lightens the corners. You can use it to remove lens vignetting.

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14. Milan
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

    So I would expect, but I was curious about how it dealt with existing vignetting: automatically, or through manual selection.

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15. Robin Kelsey
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

    Manual selection. Save it as a preset. Apply it automatically to photos on import if you want.

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