From the course: Travel Photography: Portrait of a City Neighborhood

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Looking at the post work done on some of the places photographed

Looking at the post work done on some of the places photographed

From the course: Travel Photography: Portrait of a City Neighborhood

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Looking at the post work done on some of the places photographed

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Male: Let me walk you through some of the things I do to make an image better. So, let's start with this picture here, Coit Tower, and I look at it and the first thing I think, it's a little flat. So, I'm going to come over here in the Light Room, that's the application I use.t I'm really familiar with it. I come over in the develop module in the right panel, under the basic panel, under "presence," I almost always play with the clarity setting, right away. By moving the clarity slider over to the right, I bump up the midtone contrast, and that immediately improves this picture. Some of the other things that I do is I open up the shadow area, they, went a little bit dark especially when I moved the clarity slider to the right. And also by moving the black slider over to the left, which I did to also increase the contrast the shadows closed down. But in Light room by moving the shadow Slider over to the right, you can open up that shadow area. Now I tried different things with this…

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