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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: bns on May 25, 2015, 08:12:28 am

Title: Painting with Lightroom
Post by: bns on May 25, 2015, 08:12:28 am
Bushes in my garden.

Thanks for looking,

Boudewijn Swanenburg
Title: Re: Painting with Lightroom
Post by: Bob_B on May 25, 2015, 08:28:20 am
Very nice. It has an impressionist feel. Nice work.
Title: Re: Painting with Lightroom
Post by: Arlen on May 25, 2015, 11:09:59 am
It has an interesting look to it--nicely done.
Title: Re: Painting with Lightroom
Post by: polaris-14 on May 26, 2015, 01:26:30 am
Beautiful. I really like how the image turns out. I am just curious, how do you do it in LR? I just realized how little I know about LR!
Title: Re: Painting with Lightroom
Post by: bns on May 27, 2015, 08:36:51 am
The making of:

Figure 1 is the original after a little bit of cropping. Nothing worth showing.

In figure 2 quite drastic adjustments of the tone curve have been applied: exposure + 2.7, contrast -95, highlights -100, whites -100, blacks -92. I don’t think there is much logic behind these adjustments. Possibly a similar result may be obtained in a very different way. It is a matter of tuning tone and contrast to your liking.

In figure 3 the apparent texture is completely changed by clarity (-55) and detail (luminance noise +100) adjustments. With these drastic adjustments a painterly look is emerging.

Finally some slight changes in hue and saturation (green) have been applied, a lot of vibrance added (+100) and local adjustments for adding a touch of blue in the highlights and for reducing saturation in some of the darker greens. Figure 4.
Still nothing very special, but I thought it has a more interresting flavor now.

Cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg