The 'Everything Adobe Lightroom' Thread

anybody got any good tips for noise reduction in LR ?

I've tryed using the inbuilt tool but it seems i'm either using it wrong or its uelsess !
 
My workflow is this:

RAW Import --> Pick/Reject --> Develop Picked photos/Delete rejected --> Export

I have 4 separate libraries that I use to keep the speeds up (Main, Concorde, Timelapse, Panorama).

Up at about 70,000 images at the moment, with 50,000 of them not timelapse JPEGs :p
 
blastman said:
Any presets you want to share?
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i'd be severely surprised if people started sharing the presets they use.

I've approached a few people on here for advice on what they do to their photos, but everybody refuses to share it like its some kind of secret magic circle or something.
 
Your welcome, its a selective set of presets, I don't use many if I'm honest, I like to edit each photo manually. I just use presets to experiment for some photos if I fancy doing something a bit more interesting :)
 
blastman said:
hum, why doesn't it bother me then?

maybe I'm super special!! :)
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i was really surprised when you did share them actually

Now i dont want to get too bitchy, as the people who knocked me back i actually greatly admire their work, but the secrecy with the PP is strange. If the style and quality of the photo is down to the photographer, why the desire to keep the PP secret if you only need a good photographer to take great photographs.
 
MrLOL said:
i was really surprised when you did share them actually

Now i dont want to get too bitchy, as the people who knocked me back i actually greatly admire their work, but the secrecy with the PP is strange. If the style and quality of the photo is down to the photographer, why the desire to keep the PP secret if you only need a good photographer to take great photographs.
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only need a great photographer... :)

I know what you mean. To be fair I have passed over images before thinking they where bin worthy until I started using pre-sets and rediscovered a few cracking shots.

Anyone got any ideas on how I can make this thread better??

I've included the download links in the first post, but some tips would be really helpful. Something a few sentences long that you think others may not know.....

Cheers :)
 
I would love help on organising my current and new photo's. I shoot in RAW + Large JPEG which i think is just adding to the clutter and I should just stick to shooting in RAW.
 
.:SAmSuNG:. said:
I would love help on organising my current and new photo's. I shoot in RAW + Large JPEG which i think is just adding to the clutter and I should just stick to shooting in RAW.
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Yeah, I would move to RAW only.

have you had the time and date set correctly on your camera from day one?

I'd move all your pictures to one folder then import to lightroom and get LT to move the images to a decent file structure.

I'd also be temped to remove all jpegs from the import so you're just dealing with RAW.

Then you should be good :)

Hope that helps.
 
well, after reading through i think i might have to give Lightroom another try but would like some more advice on how to start first.

Currently i have all my photo's organised in a folder called 'photos' with subfolders for the particular event. Would it be best to start fresh with a new folder structure?

For some reason in the old version of Lightroom i tried (v1 i think) it saved all the modifications to the images back to the raw files. My understanding is that LR3 is non-destructive but just so i am clear, is there any way i could accidently make it destructive?!?

Whats the speed of it like with large numbers of images?

Am i correct in thinking i can edit straight into Photoshop from within LR3?

Thanks all!
 
blastman said:
cor that's a lot of images!!!

makes my 8,500 images look tiny!! :)

Any presets you want to share?
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I would, if I actually used any :p

I just select all --> auto tone then set sharpness to 50 and enable lens distortion correction, sync settings for sharpness and lens settings.

Depending on if the images are destined for facebook or a client each image either gets <1 min of additional work or as much as it needs (Correction in photoshop, etc).
 
My random musings:

Auto mask with the adjustment brush is one discovery which I've found particularly useful for processing without needing to divert into photoshop. The only downside is that it can get a little sluggish when you've got a lot of adjustments.

I've used it on all of the following, mainly to separate the background out from the subject and apply individual adjustments to the two:









Would post before & after pics but can't from work at least.
 
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