On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:45:48 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 7/28/2015 10:22 PM, Bill W wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:29:35 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 7/28/2015 3:25 AM, Bill W wrote:
Okay, I was forced to post some air show photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/489821...7654121813454/

Comments are welcome, but on the processing, of course. They're just
planes in the sky, not much you can do with those as far as
composition goes.

Anyway, all work was done in LR, all photos were cropped, and all had
at least some of the following adjustments: color temp, exposure,
shadows, highlights, clarity, vibrance, saturation, and sharpening,
and one photo used the haze removal slider (the one with the sun in
the upper right corner). Those are the things I'm interested in
comments on. I see after posting them that there is noise in the sky
in some of them. I really need to look into that, but it might just be
aggressive sharpening. I also failed to remove spots in a couple of
the photos. I do need to learn to clean those lenses...


What look are you trying to achieve.
Try playing with levels /curves on a separate layer. Judicious use will
cause your image to really pop.

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/when-to-use-levels-or-curves-in-photoshop/

There are also some neat free tutorials on youtube.

I wasn't trying to achieve any look, just hoping to get proper looking
photos. They're just a bunch of planes flying around, but I was hoping
that a couple of those images did pop, and thought at least a couple
of them did. Many of them clearly didn't, but I at least wanted to get
the WB, saturation, & exposure looking right.

I do have PS, but I'm not using it much anymore, unless I need to do
things that LR cannot do at all. I finally understand why people use
LR. I used to just do what I needed to the raw file, and then save it
as a tiff. Then one day I saw how large those tiff files really are -
almost 10x the size of the original raw in some cases, and the light
bulb went on. No more, unless absolutely necessary.


These links are LR specific:

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2117243&seqNum=9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDq1JguOyv4

I find that if the black and white points are properly set there is
much less need for for use of the clarity, vibrance or saturation
controls.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens