Archive for May 18th, 2008

Input, Please

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

If I were to be making a “Best of” photo book of my 365 shots, which ones MUST I include? The link to all of them (thus far, anyway – 355 as of the writing of this) is here.

Lightroom Presets: Fake It Til You Make It

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I was playing around the other day with a few self-portraits and came up with an Adobe Lightroom preset that I really liked. I called it “Fake It Til You Make It.” It seems to work well on photos that are slightly under-exposed to add lots of punch and light. Today, I made a black-and-white version as well.

The presets: Fake It.zip

Here’s what they look like applied to this image:

Original:

Original

With “Fake It Til You Make It”:

Fake It Version

With “Fake It Til You Make It BW”:

Fake It BW Version

A note on the use: adjusting “Exposure” seems to be the best way to get the highlights and shadows where you want them – adjusting “Brightness” seems to blow out the highlights every time.

Enjoy!