Luminar Processed Photos
May 15, 2018 15:28:48 #
FreddB
Loc: PA - Delaware County
3 versions of same picture processed in Luminar:
1. Raw develop - Boosted Clarity; added "Vivid" preset
2. Added layer - "City Rain" preset
3. Removed "City Rain"; added "Fall Day"
Any/all comments, criticisms, verbal bludgeonings, whacks to the back of the head, WTF were you thinkings, etc welcomed and appreciated
1. Raw develop - Boosted Clarity; added "Vivid" preset
2. Added layer - "City Rain" preset
3. Removed "City Rain"; added "Fall Day"
Any/all comments, criticisms, verbal bludgeonings, whacks to the back of the head, WTF were you thinkings, etc welcomed and appreciated
Vivid
City Rain
Fall Day
May 16, 2018 09:57:03 #
Vivid doesn’t look very vivid to me. I like Fall Day best of the three, but it and City Rain both appear overcooked to my eye.
May 16, 2018 12:49:53 #
FreddB
Loc: PA - Delaware County
Rab-Eye wrote:
Vivid doesn’t look very vivid to me. I like Fall Day best of the three, but it and City Rain both appear overcooked to my eye.
I applied the 2 presets at 100%; probably not the best choice - a tad heavy handed. I'll try lesser applications to see how that looks. It's all trial and error until you find what works best.
Thanks for the input.
May 16, 2018 15:29:57 #
FreddB
Loc: PA - Delaware County
Redid the "Fall Day" at 50%; doesn't scream "LOOK AT ME!" quite so much
Vivid, Fall Day 51%
May 17, 2018 11:32:37 #
FreddB wrote:
Redid the "Fall Day" at 50%; doesn't scream "LOOK AT ME!" quite so much
Yes, I like this much more!
May 17, 2018 16:16:26 #
FreddB
Loc: PA - Delaware County
Thanks; I guess the presets work better with a lighter touch
Luminar just might speed up processing a boat lot of road trip pix
to sort the wheat from the chaff
Luminar just might speed up processing a boat lot of road trip pix
to sort the wheat from the chaff
May 30, 2018 23:49:56 #
Vivid looks like a natural photograph on my screen. The other two are way over-processed. Over-saturated. -edit- Most everything works better with a light touch. Just my opinion, but if it looks like it's been processed by some kind of software then it's over-processed. My advice is keep the processing as light as you can to get the affect you want without making it obvious that you've done any processing at all.
-hint- click (store original) before you upload your image so we can get a complete un-compressed image to see what you've done.
-hint- click (store original) before you upload your image so we can get a complete un-compressed image to see what you've done.
Jun 7, 2018 14:29:34 #
I think the first one is the most pleasing. I wonder if the photographer had stepped back a bit and gotten a bit lower if the green in the very foreground would have hidden the dead grass in the middle of the picture.
Jun 11, 2018 08:26:22 #
FreddB
Loc: PA - Delaware County
Nightski wrote:
I think the first one is the most pleasing. I wonder if the photographer had stepped back a bit and gotten a bit lower if the green in the very foreground would have hidden the dead grass in the middle of the picture.
If I had stepped back and gotten lower, it would have been an extreme closeup of a stone wall. 😆
Thanks for looking and commenting
BTW, my wife liked that one too. Said that's how she remembers that day; she's very "literal", and the other versions aren't "true".
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