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| A Lovely Fall Day, simple RAW edits Nikon 600, 14-24mm lens |
There are times when you get home after a photography shoot that you load your files and what you thought was going to be great, wasn't.
It happens to everyone.
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| Sly Eyes, RAW Edits with Sepia effect Nikon 5100, 55-300mm |
Sure, our first reaction may be to ditch and delete. We've done it many times.
Enter the world of creative edits!
A raining day? Pull out some old images.
Not able to get out and go shoot due to your work schedule? Take a break and review some prior images you haven't looked at in months.
Sitting on the couch watching football on a team you don't really care about? Find those 'almost had what you were looking for.'
Lightroom and other image processing software offer many creative editing tools that can turn what you were going to ditch into interesting and quite usable works of art.
Recently we visited the The Outer Banks. I had been picturing, non pun intended, in my mind wide-angel images of piers I wanted to capture with my new Nikon 14-24mm Landscape lens.
As a bird and flower photographer, most of my work has been with either the Sigma 150-500 or Nikon 105mm macro and a few other lenses. Landscape photography presents a new horizon of learning (see my recent blog The Checklist….It's Not About What I'm Packing). So when I returned from my first shoot on the pier, I was disappointed. The weather was colorless and flat. Winds whipped at 25 miles per hour. My limited perspectives captured didn't leave a lot to work with.
Or did it?
A photographer in The Outer Banks, Dan Waters, that I had the pleasure of working with while there shared many professional tips and tricks. One of which is www.niksoftware.com that has a series of modules to assist in various types of targeted editing.
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| A Light Hits the Gloom on the Gray Nikon 600, 14-24mm |
Here's to Happy Shooting! If you can't get out today or tomorrow - then, Happy Editing!
Sheen
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