LR cc... testing, testing 1, 2, 3...

[JimMcClain]

Jeez, I wasn't even through reading/studying Scott Kelby's Lightroom5 book for Digital Photographers and now LR cc is out. Well, I was happy to see some new features and anxious to try some out. I consider it my 30th sobriety anniversary present. I drove to my original home group for my birthday meeting and stopped along the way to make some pictures. This is one of them.

I usually bracket shots when I do sunsets - one over, one on and one under exposed - but I don't, rather, never have done HDR. Although many of you know I do like my pictures to be vibrant and I have way over-saturated a picture or 5, I've been trying to "tone it down." I don't care for a lot of HDR pictures I've seen, but the samples I saw in the videos about LR 6/CC didn't seem to be that kind of HDR.

The picture below is my first HDR, but I tried to keep it mild-ish. It was a promising sunset to come, but I didn't want to be late for my meeting, so this isn't quite a sunset. That would have meant waiting another 15 or 20 minutes.

But that isn't the only thing that made this picture a challenge for me. There are more than 2 dozen stumps in the field of view in this picture. I removed them with the healing brush in LR CC. This was a good test of the performance enhancements to LR CC and it did fairly well. I've done healing operations in the past and it was extremely slow going. Previously, zooming to 1:1 and then using the brush and moving the image to find more spots to heal was a real drag. This picture took much less time, but it wasn't as speedy as I'd hoped. Moving the image was very quick - a marked difference from LR5. But the healing brush was a little slow. Not as slow as LR5, but almost.

Okay, now the picture. I have no idea why the property owner didn't have all them stumps pulled or ground down. I've included a smaller version of the picture with the stumps left in.

Nikon D810, Tamron SP 24-70mm F2.8 Di VC USD at 55mm, f/8, ISO 100 and 1/250, 1/125 & 1/60s merged, hand-held.

Here it is with/stumps:

Jim

 

[weepete]

Looks nice to me Jim. I've allways found photoshop easier to use for cloning than lightroom if there's a lot of it to be done.

 

[JimMcClain]

I've allways found photoshop easier to use for cloning than lightroom if there's a lot of it to be done.

I've been real slow learning how to do stuff in PS CC. I also have Scott Kelby's "Photoshop for Lightroom Users" but have barely cracked the spine. I was spending more time with the LR5 book instead, but now that 6/CC is out, I suspect there will be new books on that version forthcoming. I'll have to put my nose into the PS book now.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[Rick50]

Thanks for posting Jim. I've been curious as to how well LR does HDR images. This looks pretty good.

 

[Braineack]

I downloaded it for the trial, will poke around with the new features.

 

[tirediron]

Very nice; love the way the light on the field looks.

 

[acparsons]

You live in one of the most beautiful places in Cali. I wish I could move back.