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Outdoor adventure portrait

Outdoor adventure portrait

- [Instructor] Hello, friends. In this week's episode, we will look at how we can go from this all the way to that, so that we can prepare an image for sharing it on Instagram, and we can make the image look a lot better as well. All right. We're here. I'll go ahead and exit out of full-screen mode and inside of Lightroom, we're in the Develop module, and this is the raw image straight out of the camera. Now I'm kind of embarrassed to admit my exposure is way off. Now, how do I know that? Well, if you look at the histogram, you can see there's all this space up here. And sometimes what happens when you're shooting is you get so excited, you're in the moment, and then you get back to your computer, and the image doesn't look good. So how do we fix that? Well, what we will do is we'll go through our workflow here, and I'm just going to boost my exposure, then maybe add some contrast, maybe drop my highlights a little…

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