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- #LIGHTROOM 4 WEDDING EDITING UPGRADE#
- #LIGHTROOM 4 WEDDING EDITING FULL#
- #LIGHTROOM 4 WEDDING EDITING SOFTWARE#
As I go through this wedding edit I’m definitely pausing more because my old “formulas” are now slightly different. The learning curve is definitely there especially if you are coming from Lightroom 2 or 3, where your once familiar sliders are gone and replaced by these new more granular controls.
#LIGHTROOM 4 WEDDING EDITING UPGRADE#
These fine-tuned controls are really the highlight of Lightroom 4 Beta and the reason that this will be a worthy upgrade in a few months.
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So now instead of just increasing the Shadows using the new slider (instead of using Fill Light which brightened more aggressively the entire image), you can also lighten just the blacks by sliding it in the positive direction. This sounds maybe annoying but the positive direction will now brighten the blacks for an image that was possibly underexposed. Now, you need to move the slider in the negative direction to darken the blacks (such as Elizabeth’s hair). The easiest example is the Blacks, whereas before by increasing the number from the default of 5 to say 10 you would increase the richness of the black areas of the photo. Also you will notice that now the sliders move in the negative direction instead of solely in positive. You can see that I didn’t even use it in this photo because it literally only affected the highlight area behind Elizabeth’s head above the limo, I’m ok with this blowing out because their are no details that are important to the image in that region. The biggest change is that now the old recovery slider is a now more fine-tuned Highlight slider which really attacks just the highlight portion of the image instead of affecting your overall brightness.
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Whereas before we had Recovery, Fill Light, and Blacks we now have 4 sliders in their place: Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks. The most immediate new difference are the changed sliders. Now, let’s take a quick look at the settings to achieve the look on the left.
#LIGHTROOM 4 WEDDING EDITING SOFTWARE#
No editing software is going to work magic and the image on the right is fairly well exposed to begin with which is always a good starting point to make sure you hold details in both the highlights and shadow regions. On the right is the image straight out of camera with no adjustments.
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On the left you see the finished edited photo, at least according to my tastes. So by no means does this limit what you can do in Lightroom 4 Beta or any editing software. Again, this is just my personal processing preference for the look I go for when shooting and editing photos. Now, let’s compare a photo before and after with Lightroom 4. First, some sample photos processed in Lightroom 4 Beta. I immediately installed the new Beta trial version when it came out but since I was in the middle of editing two weddings I didn’t want to have to convert over in the middle of an edit so I waited until I wrapped those weddings up and started on the next wedding we photographed here in Atlanta, Elizabeth & Greg’s wedding on January 7th, 2012.
#LIGHTROOM 4 WEDDING EDITING FULL#
Well now that Lightroom 4 Beta has been out in the wild for a few weeks now, I’ve started to get my feet wet in the new features and getting ready for the inevitable switch from Lightroom 3 to the full production version of Lightroom 4 when it is released shortly.