Adobe Lightroom 1.1

[sharon]

Hi all,

Has anyone try Adobe Lightroom 1.1 yet? It's so cool, very easy to use too.

[Bobcock]

I saw somebod using lightroom at work the other day.

what's it do?

[sharon]

Here we go.

Workspace overview
You use each Lightroom module to focus on a specific portion of the photographic workflow: the Library module for importing, organizing, comparing and selecting photos; the Develop module for adjusting color and tone or creatively processing photos; and the Print, Slideshow, and Web modules for presenting your photos.
Each module workspace includes several panels that contain options and controls for working on your photos.

[Bobcock]

I picked it up today.

[BigRed]

currently, it's the perfect starting point when you have loaded a batch of pictures onto your computer and want to apply some standard tweaks to a batch of them. There's a lot of overlap with Photoshop, but I would look at processing a batch of RAW files in Lightroom first then tweak individual images in Photoshop.
If you ever tried to get to grips with droplets in Photoshop and struggled, give up and use Lightroom instead.

[sharon]

^ Yes, I second this. It's just great, make my life easier.

[kingwilly]

sounds good, i noticed the Oh La la cafe near my house selling some cheap copies yesterday, I should go try it.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

A whole program just for adjusting the brightness and tone of a piccy?

I can do that on i-photo for fucks sake.

[Bobcock]

I'm very new to learning real photography. I was never going to learn with film, because I would develop a shot and not remember how I took it. No time or patience to make notes.

Digital though is far more fun and I bought myself the Canon 30D. Had some mixed results, in certain situations I seem to know what to do, others...clueless. As for all the jargon and various setting, hells bells, the software makes it worse.

I rarely shoot RAW and rarely compose a shot, I just like snapping.

I did however go over to Democracy Monument one eveing and try to take some shots. Frankly with the lighting on the thing it was very difficult to take anything with my limited knowledge. the searchlights are so bright at the bottom that the tops would just disappear. So then I put the flash on and with a 1.3 second exposure with the flash firing at the end of it, I tried to take the shot and also capture the vehicles that were turning into the road that I was standing on the corner of. They worked OK, but I've now used lightroom just to tweak it.



So shoot the whole thing down in flames, here's what I achieved after minor adjustments in lightroom.

[sharon]

I can do that on i-photo for fucks sake.

Ok, stay where you are.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

^^ That looks good, very good - ok I take it back but I'd be interested to see the original photo.

[Gerbil]

I can do that on i-photo for fucks sake.

Ok, stay where you are.

Scampy hears that phrase a lot from women.

[kingwilly]

So shoot the whole thing down in flames, here's what I achieved after minor adjustments in lightroom.

I aint an expert, but it looks pretty good to me,

as u said not an easy shot to take.

[Bobcock]

Wow....and I expected nowt but abuse

it's late now, i'll post the two together tommorow.

As I remember it, it was only an adjustment to the white balance...change to flash plus one more

[Bobcock]

The original JPG taken from the camera



The Raw file developed in Lightroom 1.1

[sharon]

^ Fantastic

[Bobcock]

Bloody Hell, I'm dead chuffed, I liked the idea and liked this shot (1 of 50), there is also a tuk-tuk one that might be okay after the same process.

Night time photography is probably the one I seem to understand most.

I think from now on I will shoot RAW only when doing things like this, the JPG's produced by the camera, just don't seem as good.