Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Trying out the new "Polished Portrait" preset in Lightroom Classic. Samples.

 


These two images are from the same image file. I opened the image in the developer screen of LRC and cropped it square. I saved the bottom image as it was when first opened. No changes made to the raw file. The top image had a "one click" change made to it. I selected the "Polished Portrait" preset from the preset menu. 

Lightroom automatically made 17 masked layers and applied corrections to all 17 layers without any intervention from me. I'm impressed with the changes and while I might make other decisions this preset will be one of the first I'll try on many of my portraits going forward. 

Seems interesting to me.

Studio News: Just as I was about to toss all my lights, stands and modifiers into the garbage and pull back from day to day work several clients called to book up multiple days in late April and throughout May. I thought I might accommodate them. I guess I will. After all, I have to save up money from somewhere to finance that "much needed" Q2 Monochrom. 

A thought came to me as I was struggling to lift some weight on a machine at the gym. Can a person who must shoot only with a black and white-only camera then process images on a color monitor.?While monitors can be carefully calibrated there is always some chance that color casts will "enter the picture." How does one accurately work on a monochrome image with a tri-color monitor? Is it really possible? Does the set color temperature subtly influence the way one looks at images? Actually curious.

Hope everyone is happy and well.