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Sometimes (most of the time) it’s difficult to find a pleasant blue sky in this area. I took this shot on a typically gray, overcast day in Webster (Where Life is Worth Living) but there was a small hint of blue in the sky. Blue sliders (in Lightroom) to the rescue.
In literature, poetic license is defined as “…the liberty taken by an artist or a writer in deviating from conventional form or fact to achieve a desired effect”. Photographers have been doing this since the start and I see no reason to stop now. Oh, I may have nudged the yellow slider, too.
Thank you very much. You’ve been such a wonderful audience I’d like to give you a bonus photo:
dog # 4322
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Believe it or not we have a blue sky this morning – I’d almost forgotten what blue looked like. Nice piece of observational photography, Ken. Looks like there’s a steep slope ahead for the bike riders. Thanks for the bonus too.
Thanks, Andy. When I was younger I used to ride this road on my bike. It wasn’t so bad going down but…
Really like the first photo… I like the subject and the composition… and I have to say the blue boost does help too. I try to use these color controls with discretion these days but you are certainly are well with-in the bounds of artistic judgment. I do find it tricky to boost blue too much as it get very noisy very quickly, but that can be controlled pretty well in LR too.
There is a certain quality in the image that makes it look almost like an illustration rather than a photo… an effect that works well and I like!
Thanks, John. All the adjustments were in LR but even in LR you can go too far. I like the amount of control LR affords and I’ve never seen an editor this easy to use.
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Love that first shot. And the use of sliders. LR4 is where I do all my editing these days, and I agree about the ease of use, and control. I am still discovering when far is too far on some of it, but I expect I will settle down sometime in the next decade.
Thanks, ehpem. I expect future versions of LR will incorporate more editing features to allow greater editing capabilities. I really like this v4, though.
I am exploring the functionality of a timelapse plug-in for LR4 which is really quite remarkable. It seems like a surprisingly versatile program with all the things that people can make it do (and share with us).
I feel a post breaking soon!