Adobe Camera Profiles for Lightroom part.2

I have a few tricky images, which I use to test out various gadgets, and software.

The images below are generated from one tricky RAW file, I've always had trouble with the reds of these red flowers.

I used the new Adobe beta Camera Profiles to revisit this RAW file, and see if I could process it better, using the new profiles.

The problems I'd experienced were, the reds just blowing out, showing no colour graduation, or the red shifted to pink or orange.

The image on the left is an unprocessed RAW using the previous old profile (ACR 4.4), and the image on the right is using one of the new Camera Profiles (camera faithful beta 2).

It is immediately apparent that the new profile is better, as the red contains detail and much more could be made of this image - given further processing.

Adobe Camera Profiles for Lightroom

I've downloaded Beta versions of camera profiles for use in Adobe Lightroom. These Beta profiles are intended to manage how Lightroom interprets the Raw data into the Lightroom colour space. The profiles are intended to be more faithful to the camera manufacturers' intended 'look' for the images.

Potentially, it all sounds good in theory, and gives a good base point from which to start developing your images in Lightroom.

I'll be using these profiles in my remaster project, so I'll revisit my shots taken on a Canon EOS 10D from 2004, and see how I go !

I'll keep you updated on how it goes.

Wedding Remastering Project continues

I continue to make strides with my remastering of wedding photographs.

I'm taking all images from 2004 onwards, and first of all, creating new master TIFF files.

Thankfully, I had the foresight to shoot RAW files right from day one ! This has meant that, as software has become more sophisticated, I have been able to extract more detail, better colours, and overall richer images from my original RAWs.

The master TIFFs have then been treated further, with a variety of plug-ins, including a range from NIK Software.

Updated www.jasonbatterham-photography.co.uk

Have just significantly updated my website.

Alamy.com

Just uploaded some more images to Alamy - the online sales portal/stock library. My collection is slowly building up.
Click here to see my own images on Alamy.

Remastering Project

I've been working, for ages, on remastering all of my old major photography jobs - weddings, portraits, etc.

At the moment it's still in the early, experimental stages. Software has come on a long way since I started shooting digitally in 2004. So, I've been trying out various techniques I've picked up, plus some new software packages and plug ins.

I would compare this 'remastering' to movie directors like George Lucas - just can't resist going back to continually improve on old work.

Kew Gardens - with Nikon & Heather Angel.

Earlier this week, I visited Kew Gardens, courtesy of Nikon UK. I was treated to a talk by world renowned natural history photographer - Heather Angel. Then Nikon kindly loaned me a D3 and 105mm macro lens. Despite the less than ideal weather, I managed to capture some half decent images. I may have to buy a D3 from Calumet