From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
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Exploring ideas for editing photos
From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
Exploring ideas for editing photos
Let's take a few minutes to look at some post-production work, or as I like to call it, color tweaking. In this first example, I was shooting the coffee sitting on the chair arm and the light direction was perfect to catch the steam coming off the coffee. The thing that was missing was a nice warm morning feel to the light. You can see here in the original file that the light is looking drab in color. I found that Adobe Lightroom is perfect for what I do in wanting to add my own little tweaks to a photo like this. Now in the final version you can see that I added the warmth that the real time light was not giving me. Using the Color Temp slider, I was able to dial in the color temperature that gave me the best feel for the warm look I was after. A couple of other small tweaks were to create a slight fill on the back of the chair, again, just using the fill slider and then using the Burn feature, burn in the upper-right side of the image, which is the back of the chair. This took me…
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