My Photography Workflow Part 2 - Optimise
In this section I’ve chosen one image from my still life images to optimise
First of all I imported to Lightroom from Bridge the image I wanted to optimise, you can do this by drag and drop then follow the open window instructions or you can click on import which takes you to the same windows if you want to import from a folder
Next I changed the view of the image in the middle to loupe, so that I could see it a bit better
On the left of the image is a preview and history of what has been / is going to be done to this image, on the left is the histogram
Next I went to develop, this allows me various choices to optimise my image - see on the left below the histogram
I didn’t want to do very much to this image, and I wanted to keep it low-key so I lowered the exposure a fraction and the contrast, but I didn’t want to lose to much of the vibrance in the colours so raised that to no more than 5 as I still wanted to keep the old look, I also did some noise reduction
As you can see from the two histograms, on left before, on right after, that there has not been much change to the image, only the low key impression seems to have gone further to the left of the histogram, which is exactly what I wanted. The small changes in the peaks of the colours, I’m assuming relate to the changes in those actual colours in my image.
