![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/BeachSign_before_after.jpg\")
<\/p>\nOriginal on the top. G1, Olympus 9-19mm MFT lens at 9mm.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
A quick tap on the lens correction profile<\/a> for the lens in LR3, two minutes work with the adjustment brush on the signs using AutoMask and zero feather to faithfully define the edges, a local exposure adjustment of plus one stop on the masked signs, a minus one stop exposure adjustment to the whole image, a touch on the vibrance slider, a little post-crop vignetting (the Olympus lens is totally free from optical vignetting even at 9mm, as you can see from the original, above), some selective darkening of the foreground and a blah original becomes a picture, and exactly what I visualized when pressing the button. The sheer idiocy of the sign testifies to the fact that the least able in any society work for government.<\/p>\n Stop! Turn right! G1, 9-18mm Olympus at 9mm, 1\/800, f\/8, ISO 320<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n With images where you expect to use lens distortion correction or perspective correction at the processing stage, it makes sense to compose with a little space around objects close to the edge of the frame, as that space will be lost when corrections are added – as in this example. Things are made a lot easier by the fact that the Panasonic G1 has one of the very few viewfinders which shows 100% of the image – most crop 3-5% making it impossible to exactly preview the saved file.<\/p>\n Lightroom3 is a powerful, efficient photography tool. The enhancements in Lightroom3 have now almost totally obsoleted my use of Photoshop for which feature, alone, I am immensely grateful.<\/p>\n Thank you, Adobe. Now maybe you can convince that jerk Steve Jobs to allow Flash to work on the iPad before I resort to jailbreaking mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dream to use. Having explained how to create your own lens profiles for use with Lightroom3 yesterday, here’s that experience being put to use. In this snap I wanted to emphasize the foreground sign to heighten the impact of the lone child on the beach. As you can see the original is rather blah … Continue reading Lens profile correction in practice<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/BeachSign.jpg\")
<\/p>\n