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Hurrah… Second ever before and after! Once again… All without the help of photoshop! Lightroom is the bee’s knees!! (do bees have knees? what kind of an expression is that?)

I was just rummaging through an old hard drive today when I cam across this raw file I took on my way back from Lake Geneva, WI last year. My brother has a pimpin’ 98′ VW Cabrio  (convertible) which makes summer road trips the best thing ever! With the hood down… its easy to capture shots like this at sunset…

Canon 30D ISO160 17mm f/2.8 @1/250th

right… not all that interesting… but that’s the beauty of RAW files.

I applied the following settings in lightroom -

and I then applied a gradient mask on the sky like this

and another mask on the road at the bottom with these settings

and voila!!!

I hope you guys digg it! Let me know if this is helping anyone… anyone? … anyone? … Bueler? Bueler…. Bueler?

(I know, bueler joke is clichée … but I do what I want!)

Yo, so a while back I mentioned I’d post some before of my editing process…

so here goes. I just finished editing Brandon and Kristin’s engagement shoot and thought I’d share a bit of the process. I hope you digg it! We Shot in Fabyan park Bn batavia, one of the nicest free parks in the greater chicagoland area to take pictures… did I mention they have a windmill?? yeah, cool!

anyways, here is the image straight out of the camera… 5D at ISO 250 with the Ef 50mm f/1.4 @ 1/8000ths of a sec (that’s pretty stinkin’ quick)

then I applied these following settings in lightroom

A newfound favorite trick of mine is to pull the shaddows in the camera calibration into the purples just a smidge… and then I occasionally just go crazy with the rest of the options.

and then… just cuz I love B&W… I applied these following settings to get a strong dynamic look… or so I think… you let me know.

I added a gradient filter to the bottom third of the pic with these settings…

Then simply dropped down the saturation and jacked up the contrast all the way to la la land…

not shown in this screen capture… I got rid of the vignette.

hope y’all like it…

and yeah, that’s right, I didn’t use photoshop!!

suckas!