Lightroom Day Course - Lesson Plan

Tomorrow is Friday so I thought I'd give you a rundown on what we will cover Sat/Sun.

1. Intro to Lightworkz.net
2. Intro to Lightroom
3. Importing Your Photos Part 1
4. First Shoot
5. Importing Your Photos Part 2
6. Finding Your Way Around Lightroom
7. Sorting Your Photos
8. Keywords and Metadata
9. Getting Your Photos Out of Lightroom
10. Stacking and Virtual Copies
11. White Balance
12. Cropping and Straightening
13. Toning Photos
14. Editing Multiple Photos
15. Second Shoot
16. Adjusting Specific Colours
17. Creating Black and Whites
18. Dust and Spot Removal
19. Sharpening and Noise Reduction
20. Lightroom Photoshop Workflow

Looking forward to meeting you all Sat/Sun.

Retro Skunk Lighting in Lightroom

Wow, had an absolute blast in Melbourne on an Advanced Studio Lighting Course. Got to know some top Landscape, Fashion, Architecture, and Food Photographers. We had ten people on the course and learnt all about different lighting techniques. We were also blessed with a fantastic fashion model. We were spoilt really, very little direction was given to Clarisa as she naturally moved into a different pose each time the shutter was released. I wanted to try out Skunk lighting which involves two key lights camera left and right 90 degrees to the models face, plus a fill light above the camera. You may be able to see a darkish line down the middle of Clarisa's face showing fall off of the light. This was intentional and known as skunk lighting. I did a little LR on this image which involved increasing the contrast using the tone curve and bumping the vibrance up a little, I then moved the image to PS for some final sharpening effects. Job done!