Lightroom Workflow Lesson From David Cobb's Workshop

[@gordroberts53]

Hi Sean, excellent reminder of all that can be done in Lr. Thanks for sharing!

[@keithpinn152]

Hi Sean: Thanks for creating and sharing your thoughts on how you would approach this image. Well done! Now on to Part II. Cheers, Keith

[@frankf9233]

Thank you Sean and thank you David. The day hasn't been going too well and watching this helped quite a bit. Trippy hoodie!

[@SeanBagshaw]

Sorry to hear your day hasn't been great. I so glad that a Lightroom video can help out. Hope tomorrow goes better :-)

[@frankf9233]

@@SeanBagshaw Thanks man. I may watch it again just to see the Oregon coast and your processing :)

[@12stockweb]

I’m already dying at 0:52!! David must definitely be THE most interesting man alive! Ok, back to the video.....

[@SeanBagshaw]

I'm glad you caught that...we assigned him that alter-ego several years ago when he first grew the beard. Here's his first onscreen appearance as the most interesting man alive: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrKqmSrmtKFgLM

[@thomastuorto9929]

I came across lesson 2 first & glad that I used your link first. I still use LR6 & AP & have to say it hurts when I see all the tools that are in the subscription version. Of coarse I can these results but, It takes much more work that I don't mind when in the mood for some pp. Nice work & on to lesson 2 for me. Thanks.

[@ArefAlragehi]

Thanks for the video I hope that you touched on sharpening too

[@tapanchoudhury]

Well at the end , no clipping . Great video

[@rogergray7482]

Thanks for sharing this Sean - appreciate it. Love the transformation you achieve. An interesting point re the range masks that I stumbled on in a recent tutorial on KZbin was that if you hold down the option key (mac) while adjusting the range mask you get a b&w mask like true luminosity masks so shows white for areas of adjustment.

[@SeanBagshaw]

Yep...that is very helpful for viewing the range selection as if it was a mask in Ps.

[@glennricks]

Thanks so much, Sean.

[@freetibet1000]

Isn’t there a Keystone tool in LR like we have in C1? That would take care of any leaning objects towards the edges without losing too many pixels.

[@SeanBagshaw]

All the tools in Lr tend to crop the image in my experience.

[@M31glow]

Great post! Maybe you could do a post about how you go about not "overcooking" your images and making them look so natural. I struggle with overcooking and my images and them looking too phony. Any advice?

[@SeanBagshaw]

Thanks Walter. Good idea. I'll add it to the list. As far as advice goes...I tend to try to work delicately and incrementally, but I still overcook it, so I also let it rest for hours or more. When I come back to an image later I frequently see things I've taken too far that I didn't see before.

[@LukaEsenko]

I need this shirt! 😍

[@SeanBagshaw]

Yes you do!

[@klausschleicher523]

Thank you Sean. It was really great to you do some magic in Lightroom ;-) I have one question about the calibration tool. If I open the image in Photoshop as a SmartObject, I can manipulate the calibration slider in Camera Raw and then attach a mask to this layer to only reveal the changes where I want it. Do you see any negative points by doing so?

[@SeanBagshaw]

That should be a great method for localizing color calibration adjustments to just where you want them. The only downside I can see is that if you are doing this with a raw smart object you will need another background layer underneath for when you apply the mask. This will make your image file a bit larger. Other than that I can't think of downsides.

[@klausschleicher523]

@@SeanBagshaw Thank you for your fast response. I think I can handle the bigger files ;-) BTW: The Book "Oregon, My Oregon" is great. ;-)

[@SeanBagshaw]

@@klausschleicher523 I'm so glad you like it. We are just starting to work on one for Washington now.

[@philipculbertson55]

I see a lot of photos where the poster stresses to always set white point and black point and I was curious about your philosophy of not doing that. Do your global adjustment get you there so you don't do it globally?

[@SeanBagshaw]

I generally tend to work by what I see and what look I'm going for and not by formula...so there are very few things I do "always". With white black points, I will set them if there are true whites and blacks in my image and/or if it helps achieve my intention for how the image looks. A black point is fairly common for me. Unless there are white clouds, specular highlights or snow in daylight, I often do not set a white point because nothing in the image is white. Images in fog or low contrast light don't tend to have anything completely black or white. So, I work with contrast and exposure on an image-by-image basis and to my taste.

[@tapanchoudhury]

Hi Sean , I could see that shadows are clipping while you are doing this edit . Is that acceptable ? Asking for just for learning .

[@SeanBagshaw]

All depends on your intentions. Shadow clipping just means blacks with no detail. If it is in small areas or areas that should be completely black then not a problem. :-)

[@garysimms1347]

Thank you!

[@rickwilliamsphotography]

I think you should keep the beard.........makes you a bit more "interesting" looking.........LOL!

[@SeanBagshaw]

Haha! It kind of comes and goes these days.