Lightroom Question

E

Eye-level

Banned
Are there buttons or sliders or whatever that allow you do these things? I'm sure contrast is easy but how does one go about with lifting shadows and pulling down highlights?

My lovely wife has told me that I can get the Fuji and the 85/1.4 D if I sell everything else (Looks like all of the film cameras might go away!). If I go this route than I need to get Lightroom to be able to do this stuff with the Fuji RAW files.
 
Marcel

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
Yes it is. Lightroom is a very powerful program often under estimated. When we were reviewing shots in Malta at Julian knight's photo event, Moritz exclusively used Lightroom and (even if he must be really used to it), he could do almost everything Photoshop does except retouching. As with any software, there is a learning curve but there is so much tutorials on line that with a little practice, most of us could probably learn how to master it. The more time you spend with it, the easier it will become.
 
E

Eye-level

Banned
cnyram said:
To a certain degree yes. Blown out highlights are difficult in any program I think.
Click to expand...

The Fuji is incredible in it's ability to be able to recover highlights. That is why so many wedding photographers like it so much. You can expose for the black tuxedo, blow out the white dress, and then recover the highlights in Lightroom.

This is an amazing flickr post. It started everyone to raving about the Fuji. This example is extreme so the recovered picture has a few things wrong with it. Check it out though it is crazy.

The S5 Pro Dynamic Range Stress Test | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
 
E

Eye-level

Banned
Here is a quote from that guy...

"The S5 doesn't work like other cameras. It has a whole other set of sensors that capture extra information in the highlight regions. So even though the main sensors were totally blown out, there was still lots information left from the secondary sensors."

This is the camera I want...because of this sensor...and because it is the closest thing digital that replicates the look and effects of negative film. The new cameras have a little more dynamic range but the verdict is still out on if they can handle the highlights like the Fuji sensor.


 
E

Eye-level

Banned
Come on guys do you think I would jump ship? LOL

The S5 Pro is nothing but a D200 body with a Fuji sensor and Fuji nameplates...as such it is F mount...it is a Nikon/Fuji hybrid!

I can't believe they didn't carry on with the sensor technology as it is such an interesting sensor. Up until about the D7000 it was the camera with the highest DR of all.
 
E

Eye-level

Banned
My wife is a physics student. We got this thing in the mail the other day with all kinds of software in it discounted for students...now I can't find the darn thing.

I guess this is what I want for Christmas... :)
 
D

Dave_W

The Dude
Eye-level said:
How much is Lightroom running nowadays anyway? What are the versions available?
Click to expand...

Download a copy of Lightroom 4 for a free 15 day trial (or is it 30?) and give it a try. As to your earlier question, you can have all the blown out portions of your image highlighted in red so that you can easily see which portions of are blown out. That said, data blown out beyond a certain point is not recoverable regardless of the program you use. Certainly perfect exposure is always the best but at least underexposed image has more salvageable data compared to overexposed data

Lightroom is, IMO, the best program on the market for photography. It has amazing depth and even the most prolific photographers only scratch the surface of it's total capabilities. And then when you couple LR with the Nik suite of software (also downloadable for a free trial) you'll have a set up second to none.
 
E

Eye-level

Banned
OK thanks Rick that answers my question perfectly and yes you are right I am 100% sold on it now. I think my photography is going to become much better in the near future! :)
 
Top