Simon Creative » Lightroom http://www.simoncreative.com Design, Web 2.0 Development and Photography Wed, 05 May 2010 02:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Working with Adobe Lightroom http://www.simoncreative.com/2009/03/06/working-with-adobe-lightroom/ http://www.simoncreative.com/2009/03/06/working-with-adobe-lightroom/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:05:56 +0000 Simon http://www.simoncreative.com/blog/?p=91 Williamsburg Bridge OriginalImage enhancement is a personal taste. Some prefer their images as shot. However, the wonderful aspect of digital photography is that software enables us to mimic and go beyond a dark room, allowing us to not only enhance photographs, but also gain parts of images that might have been lost. All of the enhancements you see here were created within Adobe Lightroom.]]> Williamsburg Bridge OriginalImage enhancement is a personal taste. Some prefer their images as shot. However, the wonderful aspect of digital photography is that software enables us to mimic and go beyond a dark room, allowing us to not only enhance photographs, but also gain parts of images that might have been lost. All of the enhancements you see here were created within Adobe Lightroom.

Williamsburg Bridge FinalThe original image at top, which I’ve taken 2 summers ago at night, suffers heavily from bad lighting and under exposure. After just a few minutes in Adobe Lightroom, correcting the exposure, adjusting the color, and intensifying some of the highlights, the image at left shows the outcome. The aqua-green tone highlights appearing on the columns are intensified and the red steel bars running across the bridge are heavily saturated and set to proper red hue. Other corrections feature the removal of cigarette butts and various glass and garbage on the asphalt seen in the foreground.

]]> http://www.simoncreative.com/2009/03/06/working-with-adobe-lightroom/feed/ 0 Strathmere Beach http://www.simoncreative.com/2009/03/03/strathmere-beach/ http://www.simoncreative.com/2009/03/03/strathmere-beach/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:10:34 +0000 Simon http://simoncreative.com/blog/?p=28 New Jersey ShoreOver the summer I've managed to get some really great shots of the beach on Strathmere island in Southern New Jersey. Because of an approaching storm, the beach was closed off with yellow police tape. I couldn't resist climbing over the tape and over a dirt mound that protected the incoming tide from residential properties located just a few feet away. Having just purchased a Sigma 10-20mm Wide Angle lens for my Canon XSI, I went on shooting frenzy along with my broken-down tripod for several hours trying to get as many shots as possible before the twilight hour ended. I've posted additional shots of the beach in my photography section.]]> New Jersey ShoreOver the summer I’ve managed to get some really great shots of the beach on Strathmere island in Southern New Jersey. Because of an approaching storm, the beach was closed off with yellow police tape. I couldn’t resist climbing over the tape and over a dirt mound that protected the incoming tide from residential properties located just a few feet away. Having just purchased a Sigma 10-20mm Wide Angle lens for my Canon XSI, I went on shooting frenzy along with my broken-down tripod for several hours trying to get as many shots as possible before the twilight hour ended. I’ve posted additional shots of the beach in my photography section.

I learned later on this year that the beach has been completely demolished by numerous storms that hit the island during Fall – just a few months after I’ve taken these shots. I’m anxious to take new shots of the remnants of the beach this summer and I’ll be sure to follow up to this post.

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