{"id":5626,"date":"2012-04-19T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2012-04-19T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:16:44","slug":"shadows-lightroom-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5626","title":{"rendered":"Shadows (Lightroom editing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to see just how far I could edit an image in Lightroom and whether I could achieve the effect I wanted without the need to go into a more advanced editing program and this is the resulting image.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5632\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wkoopmans_shadows-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5632\" title=\"wkoopmans_shadows-2\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wkoopmans_shadows-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wkoopmans_shadows-2.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wkoopmans_shadows-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whether what I did was good or not is not the point, the point is that by using local adjustments, the healing brush, graduated filters and overall image adjustments I was able to create the image I wanted without leaving Lightroom.\u00a0 There are definitely areas within the software that could stand improvement but I don&#8217;t think Adobe has much appetite for that as they won&#8217;t want to create a situation where people feel Lightroom is all they need and have them\u00a0forgo buying the much more expensive Photoshop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the before and after, hopefully most of my edits will be unnoticed except for the most obvious one of course.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5631\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Shadow_Before_After.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5631\" title=\"Shadow_Before_After\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Shadow_Before_After.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Shadow_Before_After.jpg 640w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Shadow_Before_After-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to see just how far I could edit an image in Lightroom and whether I could achieve the effect I wanted without the need to go into a more advanced editing program and this is the resulting image. Whether what I did was good or not is not the point, the point is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[125,270],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-processing","tag-digital","tag-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5658,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}