New to Light Room --> What would you do as post production ?

Hi All,

I just got Light Room and getting used to its features. I thought of an interesting ways to figureout its features from you who may be using it for years.

I have attached two pictures of that i have taken recently.

Question is : Which options in LR would you use primarily for these 2 images ?

I totally understand that the answers and opinions may vary from person to person. But i'm trying to figure our key options in LR what you guys would go for in pictures like what i have attached.

Only the keywords will help.

Rotate for the first one sorry just got LR myself

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh... I accidentally uploaded the RAW file so I never realized this simple mistake can be a such a bit hit...

Now some serious answers guys

In short:
Highlights
Dehaze
Whites
Blacks
Vibrance
Sharpen?
Noise?
Straighten horizon.


I'd bring the highlights down, perhaps all the way.
Use dehaze in effects panel.
Set the blacks and whites. I do this by pressing shift and double clicking on white/black. This does a technical adjustment. I might then adjust them from there. Usually bringing blacks down a bit more.
I might also increase vibrance a bit.
Sharpen and noise reduction if I felt it was need.
Straighten horizon.

This is a quick edit doing those things I mentioned. Think its overdone a bit and would be better if working from the original raw file. I would actually bring the colours back a bit. A crop would also help as shown above.

It's hard to say without full-res images since applying many of the techniques that I do in Lightroom require the information available in a full-res file. If you're shooting JPEG you're going to be able to do far less than you could with a RAW file since your light information is static and all you can do is tweak what you have. With RAW you have more information per pixel, so when you do things like shadow and highlight adjustments there is real light information available to you, where with a JPEG you're not going to be able to do highlight recovery, and the shadow slider is nothing more than a focused brightness control.

It's a tiny file to work with so there's some posterization and artifacting going on, but here's my take. Majorly cropped it (since all the sky isn't really doing anything for the composition), straightened it (using the fence at the bottom as my balance point), punched up the sky a little bit (not a lot to work with but I did what I could), corrected and enhanced the color a bit.

Oh, and those power lines had to go!
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How did you remove the power lines ?

SJD said:

How did you remove the power lines ?

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Spot Healing Brush... And a semi-delicate mix of healing and cloning because I'm primarily a Photoshop guy and really not that adept at using Lightroom.

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