Let's See What This Does.....

Posted by Monte Stevens (Westerville, United States) on 28 August 2009 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

I’m learning to experiment more. And, that’s a good thing. Here’s why I say that. When I first started shooting digital I used Photoshop Elements 2 as my photo editor. Since I had the less expensive option to the full blown Photoshop package there were many things I could not do. I therefore had a very simple workflow which meant I adjust white balance in Nikon Capture then move to Elements. there I would crop, play with levels, saturation, and sharpen. Other than playing around with some filters, I’ve just stayed in that mode of post processing for the past 6 years.

Lightroom 2 has changed all of that. The longer I play with it, read on the internet and from books, the power it has my images seem to have more pop to them. The most important thing it’s given me is the comfort to experiment. In this image I played with the Clarity slider and a bit of added saturation. That’s it. Pretty adventurous.

It feels good to create an image that stirs something inside me and hopefully someone else.

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