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Restive effect – Lightroom Tutorial

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I am a big fans of Adobe Lightroom, really big big fans as almost entire of my photo are develop using Lightroom and it is indeed really a great product. There are few advantages that you can find using Lightroom when you are editing your picture but today topic I would not discuss about that, or rather today I wanna share how to make restive effect popping out from your picture.

restive effect 480x318 Restive effect Lightroom TutorialThis is the picture that I too from Tioman during my dive trip, I personally love this one as it is really bring memory back and also the environment, beach at behind really bring out the feeling of relax. so I want to bring more details and use restive effect to this picture to bring out details as well as sharpness. Now the question is how do I do this?

I will divide this tutorial into two areas, one is tone, another one is presence. First lets go to tone area. Lets talk about Tone.

Increase exposure for a little, as it will bring more light, then put recover to 60, fill light to the max, then get black to 73. So my picture will be looks like more colorful and you will notice the different significantly by doing this.

Next we go to presence. put clarity and vibrance to max +100 to really make the color sharp, then decrease saturation to -86 so each color blend really well. This saturation is based on preference but I like each color blend nicely and the sharpness we still can found.

Before After mask editing 480x232 Restive effect Lightroom TutorialThis picture show the different between before and after post processing. As you can see, it does bring restive effect from my picture to be more sharp as well as the ocean feeling. You can use this tutorial to bring more significant color from your picture, and also you can copy and paste into your website, but just link back to this page and I will be very happy.

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Playing with Texture

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I am really feel privilege to be able to take wedding dinner shoot for my close friend. They are such a sweet couple and fun to be with. They have entrust me to take their precious moment in their life. Below is the picture of the bride.

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It is my very first time using texture to make this art work. As you can tell there is no way any other camera can able to get this kind of picture naturally (if there is, please share to me how you do it icon smile Playing with Texture ). I love to take picture naturally with slightly warm tones and sharp images, but after I see some of the wedding photo from other blogs and photographers, I am inspired to use texture to enhance the photo and this is the first experiment.

I am using two different texture to create the picture above, and some tweaking in photoshop, it gives me this color and grain. I am new in photoshop and I love some of photography blog they willing to share their techniques how to enhance the images, click this LINK to see the tutorial that I view and tried.

Important of Composition in Photography

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In photography, composition is the soul of the image. Well composed photo is the basic fundamental of every amazing photo. Composition is something that really hard to learn as different angle and places required different composition to bring something good out of nothing. If you are master in balancing light in your photo, have great exposure, even very focus photo but the composition the part that lack, it does not help to produce great photo. Good photograph can produces superb photo from boring places, dusty room, messy garage, and even dirty kitchen.

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The most basic and famous rule of composition is the rule of third. Rule of third is being widely used for many published photo in the magazine and also in any high profile media as it gives very good composition and not too boring, by boring I mean if the photographer always put the main subject in the middle, regardless everything.

The main concept of rule of third is you put your subject in the third frame of your photo if you taking portrait, if you take landscape phot, divide horizon two third of sky and one third of land or two third of land one third of sky. This will enhance your deep of photo and increase your composition skills.

I often use this technique and I really loves my picture more, so what is your favorite composition technique?

3 Main Factors in Photography

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replace fear with curiousity 3 Main Factors in Photography

It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.  ~James Lalropui Keivom

It is just few months that I have been into photography and day by day it is really interesting field to explore. I am involve into many photography forum where I post my photo and also ask for critics and any comments. Comments and critiques is really helps me and build me to improve my skills in photograph, and also my character on how I take comments.

There are 3 main factors that I discover after using my nikky for half a year to capture great moments.

1. Make full use of your equipment.

Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer.  It makes you a Nikon owner.  ~Author Unknown

If you possess DSLR camera or even the highest and the latest Nikon (I am a fans of nikon so I use nikon icon razz 3 Main Factors in Photography ) DSLR, like D3x, it does not make you very professional photographer but makes you D3x owner. Getting latest camera and fastest lens would not make you become very good photographer. Some lucky fellow, they use D3x as learning camera with very expensive lens, like 24-70mm and 70-200mm, as they can afford it like buying peanuts but it makes me sad that they use it like using point and shoot camera.

If you have thinking that buying latest and most expensive camera will make your photography skills improve, what I can say is the image quality will improve a lot but not your skill. I have seen few blogger in internet that they use Nikon D3000 and the photo they put on the blog really good and superb. I admit some of the photo taken by D3000 is much better than mine.

One great tips once you owns DSLR camera, first read the manuals as most people skips this steps, and after that do lots of experiment and errors. There are many times that I need to use reset functions in my DSLR as I mess up the setting, but that process is really fun as I can learn something once I made mistake. I am a slow learner, so it takes me quite lots of time for me to use manual mode in D90. Once I learn manual, it gives me freedom to control everything, from shuttle speed, aperture, ISO, and even white balance.

2. Have lots of curiosity

I began develop lots of curiosity in photography. Almost every time I took a picture, I begin ask myself that what can be improved, either my composition, lighting technique, or proper angle or some weird angle to make the photo looks more interesting, and there are many more questions.

There are two common style in photography, one is they take tons of picture and then select the best from it and the other one is they really careful to take picture as one picture they will spend some time even hours to take one picture. There is nothing wrong or right in both style, it is just which one that suits you.

For my style, I may combine both style, first I will take picture with proper setting, then after that I will try from different angle, different setting, and also different lighting technique to capture more possibility. That is how sometimes I end up shooting quite number of picture from one subject, but most of the time I will really careful before I press my shuttle button as I want to get correct setting, composition, and also timing to make a snap shoot become something special.

3. Enjoy what you are doing

Enjoying taking picture in photography is something crucial point. If you are not passion in this field, you better give up as the equipment for photography is really expensive, unless you have big fat cash in your bank. It is really struggle for me to own my D90 and some lens that I need to have for my project but could not afford it for time being.

Taking photography is become more than hobby for me, It also represent my character from photo that I took. I have read many books regarding photography and put it into practice once I gain the knowledge. I am a slow leaner so I need to repeat some of the technique many times and with many failures until I satisfied with the result, and every mistake I took it increase my interest on taking superb picture.

That my personal three points from me throughout this half year, and I believe each person have different point or perhaps different idea, please post it into comments and I will be really happy icon smile 3 Main Factors in Photography