More Tricks with Lightroom 2

Today we learned about a few more tools to "tweak" our pictures. After adjusting white balance, exposure and color, we used the brush tool to mask areas where we wanted to have specific changes happen. Then we used a gradient tool to make a gradual change through the image. Here is a shot that I tweaked with what I learned today.

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I used the brush tool to mask the box and then desaturated the color of the box. Then I applied a gradient exposure vertically across the picture.

Basic Editing in Lightroom

After reviewing some basic functions in Lightroom this morning, we imported our shadows and reflections pictures that we took yesterday. We shared our 2 best shots with the class. These are what I consider my best 2 shots.


After lunch we went out to shoot some color pictures. With the color pictures that we shot, we imported them into Lightroom and learned how "tweak" them. Here is an example of a picture that I shot and then "tweaked".

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Camera Workflow 2

After a week of learning all our camera functions with Michael Cunningham, we were introduced to Adobe Lightroom 2 in the module Camera Workflow 2. Chris Alvanas, the director of the photography program in Washington, DC, is our instructor this week.

Lightroom 2 is an Adobe program that photographers use to manage their photographs. Today we were introduced to the interface and learned to do set up a few things like metadata, keywords and a other few preferences. Lightroom is an especially powerful program for managing and indexing your photographs.

Through Lightroom we were able to display all the data that is embedded in the RAW files. Embedded data includes things like, camera and lens uses, lens settings, camera settings, flash use or not, time, date and it just goes on!

After lunch we went out to shoot our next assignment, shadows and reflections. Tomorrow we will practice importing them from our memory cards on to our portable hard drives through Lightroom. Here are a couple of shots that I took.