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Negative Clarity

Hi folks, I was working on a picture yesterday, and I used the ‘Clarity’ slider in Lightroom. The way I use this slider is to usually increase the clarity to about 40 (I actually created a preset to increase the clarity to 40, the vibrance to 40 and the tone curve to ‘strong contrast’. I now tend to use this preset on all my pictures as a starting point). But for this picture (see original and final below), I used a […]

Miracles of Post Processing

Sometimes you look at your pictures after a session, and you quickly discard them, thinking they’re useless… It is quite amazing to see how much information is in a file that doesn’t look that great at first! With a little Lightroom slider pushing, you can get from there to here: The resulting picture may not make a great print, but you can certainly show it online! Keep on pushing those sliders!!