yOOrek's Rants'n Raves » Lightroom presets http://blog.yoorek.com The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:40:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another photo à la Daido Moriyama http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/another-photo-a-la-daido-moriyama/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/another-photo-a-la-daido-moriyama/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:11:42 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/another-photo-a-la-daido-moriyama/ Here is another photo post-processed in Lightroom using ‘Moriyama’ preset.

Northern Star

Northern Star Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Winterthur, Switzerland, April 2009 

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• NIKON D50 • 1/30 sec at f/1.4 (0 EV) • ISO 1600 • Pattern metering • Manual • no flash • 50 mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm •

2009-04-08-2326-5120

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Copyright © 2009 yOOrek

Image uploaded with Jeffrey Friedl’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin

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]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/another-photo-a-la-daido-moriyama/feed/ 3 Moriyama rulez http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/moriyama-rulez/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/moriyama-rulez/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:05:45 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/moriyama-rulez/ I have come across this LR preset called after a Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. You can get it at Really Japan Blog. I just love the effect it produces. Tonight for example I just went out on a balcony and started shooting random objects I could aim my lens at. Downloaded them to my iMac, and few minutes later I end up with something that I like very, very much. Borrowing from the Really Japan blog these photos have that “gritty, harsh, raw, very analogish, almost punk” look.

NZ Love

NZ Love Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Winterthur, Switzerland, April 2009 

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• NIKON D50 • 1/8 sec at f/1.4 (0 EV) • ISO 1600 • Pattern metering • Manual • no flash • 50 mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm •

2009-04-08-2325-0400

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Copyright © 2009 yOOrek

Image uploaded with Jeffrey Friedl’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin

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]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/04/09/moriyama-rulez/feed/ 0 What a difference a well done preset makes http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:36:11 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/ I came across a site, www.presetsheaven.com, that hosts quite a number of Lightroom presets. One of them, PH Naturally BW has been used to post process this photo. I also used Adobe Camera Portrait Beta 2 profile. Rather nice end result, wouldn’t you say?

On a slightly different note, all is coming nicely together for me on the photography front. LR2.1 has been released recently. I do not experience any problems with it whatsoever. LR export plugins are doing their job of uploading the photos to Flickr™ or Zenfolio very nicely. All my uploaded photos have proper title, complex, automatically generated caption, plus a discrete watermark is applied (and I am not talking about the copyright text in the right bottom corner). I have to admit that my photographic work flow has evolved into something I’m very happy and content with.

To make things even better, after the move, when unpacking some boxes I didn’t even realized still existed, I came across an old set of Cokin filters I used in my film camera days. And guess what? The filter adapter is 72mm (perfect for my Sigma 10-20), the stash includes couple of soft edge ND grad filters (recently I was thinking of getting them). A polarizer (although it is not circular polarizer so this is of limited, if any use on digital camera). And I thought they were all lost when we moved from the land of OZ to Switzerland.

Life is full of surprises.

Maya (B&W)

Maya (B&W) Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Winterthur, Switzerland, October 2008

Maya before going to a coctail party in Zürich.

Post processing in Lightroom 2.1. Preset used – PH Naturally BW from www.presetsheaven.com/

• NIKON D50 • 1/400 sec at f/4.5 (0 EV) • ISO 400 • Spot metering • Shutter priority • flash fired • 18-70 mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 70 mm •

2008-10-24-1949-23

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Copyright © 2008 by yOOrek, all rights reserved.

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]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/feed/ 4 New Beginnings http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/03/10/new-beginnings-3/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/03/10/new-beginnings-3/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:08:49 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/new-beginnings-3/ Once again the ‘Extreme Velvia’ Lightroom preset has done its magic on this photo. Plus the tripod has been used. Plus long exposure has been utilized.

New Beginnings

New Beginnings Originally uploaded by yOOrek

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2006-05-07-1739-53

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