BEFORE
After working on this image in my Digital Darkroom this is what I got. Tools used:
1. Adobe Lightroom 2 – Preset Punch and Sharpen Landscape
2. Photoshop CS3 – Levels, Healing Brush, Selection Tools, Layers and Layer Masks, and Adjustment Layers
AFTER
by Robert Frost
Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.
I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?
Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.
Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who’s to say where
The harvest shall stop?
This short video shows how you can use the Local Adjustments Tool in Adobe Lightroom to lighten up a dark background in a photograph after the fact.
PK loves photography. This blog is a record of his photographic adventures and projects. If you like what you see congratulations - you have a good taste in photography. If you want to commission me for a portrait or just to hang out drop me an email at pk [at] photoindica [dot] com.
