Originally posted by darranz Man, everyday I read this thread and your images are always amazing! Love them, all of them!
Can you explain your workflow a little bit? maybe you already did, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to know!
Thanks!! and please keep posting that gorgeous images.
David.
I am humbled David.
I typically open a day's work in Adobe Bridge. Eyeball some interesting combos, then open either singles or brackets together (as the case may be) in ACR.
First goto lens profile and pull in the Tamron 15-30 (since there is no DFA 15-30 profile yet) , apply color fringe reduction and correct perspective in the ,Manual tab.
I (95%) typically do a variation of the following
Reduce highlights to -85, whites +20 to compensate. Lift shadows, then goto next Tab and play this game again, making sure there is needed exposure in shadows, and that the highlights are not blown or over-powering.
Then I will make it monochrome and eyeball the composition and crop
Then put back colors and decide what mood to give the shot, here I will play with WB and Tint
After that I make sharpness +35 and NR +25
I will sometimes make De-haze +25 to 40 depending if the shot has flat lighting. During this, Blues might get overdone and blacks too... I re-adjust WB and also reduce clarity to adjust that effect.
I will then eyeball the shot and see if it needs local adjustments, this will will do with Radial filter or Gradient filter
At this point I open it in Photoshop
Here unless I need to merge brackets, I do very little, except to sharpen micro contrast (less than 1 pixel pitch)
Then save a full res version, and then a smaller version for sharing.
This covers 95% of what I will do. There are variations ofcourse.
I used to use LR when I took many many shots in a day, but found it a bit cumbersome and slow. The Bridge/PS combo is faster and more selective as I get more selective in shooting...
Hope this helps.