I know, I’m boring… but I like shooting iconic locations, to see what I can do myself with the location and also because I read a post recently from someone who had refused to shoot ‘the tree’ on Loch Nah Achlaise on Rannoch Moor because everyone else had, and then the tree was blown down in a gale and they regretted never having shot it.
On a different subject many of you will know that I have been quite unwell for just over a year now. The last few weeks have seen an improvement in my situation hence the reason I’ve been out and about taking photos again. Whether this is temporary or not only time will tell.
One of the things that has helped me throughout is flickr. During the times I have been confined to home I was able to surf flickr and see lots of wonderful places around our beautiful planet. During the early days on the odd occasion that I was able to get out and take some photos it was really nice to be out taking photos and remember what it was like to enjoy being alive and it was good to share those moments on flickr.
I’ve said it before but I just want to say again at this time of year, thank you all for your support through this time.
As a little Christmas thank you, I’m sharing with you two lightroom presets that I’ve created from the settings that I used on my last two mono shots. There are basically mono conversions with a very slight hint of selenium. They are both quite similar but do have slight differences.
I don’t know if this will work or not as it’s the first time I’ve tried doing this, but if it does then by clicking on the links you should hopefully be able to download the file to your computer and then all you have to do is go into lightroom, right click on the Users Presets folder and click import and navigate to wherever you saved the file. You can then apply the preset to any of your shots
I find that presets work differently on different files, so they might not work for you but hopefully they will, a lot depends on how you’ve processed the color file before you apply the preset (I think). You can perhaps at least use it as a base to tweak further.
Anyway Merry Christmas to you all, I hope you all have a Happy New Year and thanks again for helping me through this one.
docs.google.com/open?id=0B0rjYOUeCi2BR2pXaWF6TUpyeE0
docs.google.com/open?id=0B0rjYOUeCi2BUF9tbGJQRTJMZmM
ps follow me on twitter if you like, I might post some more presets there in the future.
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Posted by Scott Masterton on 2012-12-18 15:42:49
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