Thursday 26 January 2017

Simiple steps to enhance your photographs

This week's quick tips are editing your RAW images in Lightroom. Always photograph and edit RAW images not jpegs, (RAW files record more detail than Jpegs).

The below photograph is from the series of my personal projects which has been edited in Lightroom.

Camera: Sony a6000
Aperture: f11
Shutter speed: 1/100
ISO: 200

Lightroom adjustments:
Temp: 5691
Contrast: increased to +12
Shadows: decreased to -12
Blacks: decreased to -7
Added graduated filter to darken the sky
Burn tool used to bring out the reflections in the water

Final image:

Boats on the canal
Bhupinder Ghatahora
Ghatahora Photography