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Dog Photography Tips on Lightroom

By KRae Merk | May 26, 2010

  I’ve had to learn the hard way to always check your WHIMES;

W; White Balance Check

H; Highlight warning turned on

I; ISO check

M; Mode Check

E; Exposure Compensation check

S; Size check

                Scott Kelby created the WHIMS check, I added the “E” because I shot our entire family Christmas weekend get-a-way with my exposure compensation dialed down to –2.0, I felt sick when I figured out what I did. (Blond me, I didn’t even follow my own dog photography tips) thankfully, I had just gotten Lightroom 2 a few weeks before so I was able to save some of my pictures. Here are a few examples of what Lightroom can do with the pictures I screwed up on;

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What I did in Lightroom 2;

  1. Import the photos and add them to their own collection
  2. Highlight the photo and go over to Develop
  3. Correct the white balance to auto correct and adjust the temperature sliders to the desired white balance
  4. Adjust the exposure to the bright side to the desired lightness
  5. Increase the recovery slider to offset the exposure brightness
  6. Slide the fill light slider over to almost full strength
  7. Adjust the brightness and contrast sliders slightly to compensate for the fill light hue
  8. Increase the clarity slider over about halfway
  9. Increase the vibrance and saturation sliders to bring back the color drained by the other sliders that were brightening up the photo

That is approximately what I did in Lightroom 2; of course I change it up slightly for each different photo.

                Now, one of my leading dog photography tips is; Get is right in the camera. Because, I’ve always liked the look of a picture fresh out of the camera, not Photoshop or Lightroom. Now, that doesn’t mean I won’t play around in Photoshop or Lightroom, I just proved that above. 

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