Photo Editing 2

The pur­pose of this exer­cise is not to reach a final result but to pre­pare the image for edit­ing and post-editing. When cal­i­brat­ing, we try to cor­rect sys­tem­atic short­com­ings of our cam­era. When we edit, we try to drive a max­i­mum of data out of our image, namely because the cam­era deliv­ers jpeg files which com­press away quite some data of which some can be recovered.

Once we have the best pos­si­ble set of data, we can apply fil­ters and pre­sets with a fore­see­able result.

The Orig­i­nal

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler original

Edited Ver­sion

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler edited

BW Ver­sion

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler edited bw

Post-edited Ver­sion

Photo © 2010 Ute Schaedler post-edited

Enjoy!

[download_box]Cal­i­brate and Edit Pre­sets used in Light­room[/download_box]

A some­what more dif­fi­cult sam­ple in the sense that this image is not ideal for cal­i­brat­ing because of the color range and because it’s zoomed (114 mm in 35 mm equiv­a­lent). The image is there­fore not at max­i­mum sharp­ness or detail.

How­ever, it’s a nice bird, worth­while to spend some time on :-).

The Orig­i­nal

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke as shot

Edited Ver­sion

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke edited

Edited Ver­sion 2

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke edited 2

Edited Ver­sion 3

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke edited 3

Post-edited Ver­sion

Photo © 2010 Bianca Gubalke post-edited

No com­ment, let the yel­low bird tweet!

[download_box]Light­room Pre­sets used[/download_box]

More later.

Related posts:

1. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy and Photo Edit­ing II
2. Image Edit­ing and Post Editing
3. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy Ycad­emy 6
4. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy and Photo Editing
5. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy Ycad­emy 7

Tags: Photo and Image editing, Photo by Ute schaedler, Photo ©2010 Bianca Gubalke, Photo ©2010 Ute Schaedler

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