{"id":3122,"date":"2013-05-15T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2013-05-15T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:19:27","slug":"lightroom-rescue-in-under-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/lightroom-rescue-in-under-10-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom Rescue in under 10 minutes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grim Day…<\/h1>\n

Day 1 of the summer series of workshops and we get a winter night…. in may….<\/p>\n

It wasn’t raining too much when \u00a0we got to the reservoir, so I showed a couple of new people how to expose using a meter.<\/p>\n

Here’s the shot I got – 4 seconds, histogram told me that the sky had not burned (I’d metered from the sky, so was\u00a0expecting\u00a0that!).<\/p>\n

It was also to show the effect of a polariser on the water and long exposures on the water surface.<\/p>\n

So you’d usually just throw these things away and return on a better night… but I thought I’d quickly use lightroom, especially the Grad tools, to see what I could drag out of the RAW file.<\/p>\n

Shoot RAW – Always!<\/h1>\n

Were this shot as a JPG file, you’d definitely best binning it – the vast majority of useful data is thrown away “in camera” so all the enhancements below are impossible..<\/p>\n

Unedited RAW File<\/h1>\n

\"_MG_0139\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Exposure and contrast tweaks<\/h1>\n

\"_MG_0139-2\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Correct verticals<\/h1>\n

\"_MG_0139-3\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Apply grad to make sky moody<\/h1>\n


\n<\/span>\"_MG_0139-4\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Apply a grad to brighten the land<\/h1>\n

\"_MG_0139-5\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Optional Vignette – Draw eye to centre of shot<\/h1>\n


\n<\/span>\"_MG_0139-6\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Final shot<\/h1>\n

\"_MG_0139-7\"<\/a>
\n 
\nSo there you go – It’s not going to win any prizes but from a throw away shot you can drag a lot of info out of the RAW to get something with a little interest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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