Lightroom

This meeting is held monthly in the club rooms and sometimes is training or a show and tell. We started the meeting with Caroline updating us on forthcoming dates in the Calendar. Penny Clarke then continued training in Lightroom showing us how to use filters and what different uses we could get with them. Below are a few before and after images from the night.

This image has been cropped to 16:9 then a linear filter added and because a slow shutter speed was not added at the time the image was taken the sea has had the texture and the sharpness removed. The sea colour has been altered to better reflect the sky.

Again a 16:9 crop has been used bringing the castle to a more prominent position.The Sky Filter was used to put more colour into the sky. And a brush filter was used to sharpen the brickwork and bring out more colour.

With this image the subject was selected then inverted which is often more reliable than using the background filter. Then the background has had a bluer saturation added. The subject filter was then selected again and the whites increased and the bird sharpened. A small radial filter was used to on the head to lighten it very slightly more than the rest of the body and a brush filter was used on the eye to bring out the eye a bit further by lightening it and adding a little contrast.