before and after… on the way back from Lake Geneva, WI

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

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

I applied the following settings in lightroom -

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

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

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and voila!!!

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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!)

Posted: December 9th, 2009
Categories: Before and After
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Comments: 5 Comments.
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Comment from Guena - December 11, 2009 at 02:30

Definitely better here ! And yeah Thatcher rocks !

Comment from Fernando - December 23, 2009 at 21:47

Hey Tim… real cool pic! I’m a big fan of your work. You got me started on Esteban Shedd’s wedding (I was the guy that you lend a 50mm lens ;)
Thanks for the tips… and the inspiration bro
Peace,

Fernando

Comment from TimTab - December 24, 2009 at 04:57

Fernando!
great to hear from you, I most definitely still remember you!! I am glad to see you have a website up and going with your work on it! very cool man! keep in touch!

Comment from Vitaliy Prokopets - January 4, 2010 at 12:12

Love the colors! I see the Newsome’esque influence :)

Comment from TimTab - January 4, 2010 at 17:07

Thanks V… yeah man, I like to juice those raw files for all their hidden color!

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