Critique Last Nights Lightning Preservations Group Photo Shoot

[stevet20]

Final set from last nights shoot

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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

2.

Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr
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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

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Lightning XR728 by Steve Tron, on Flickr

 

[Simon Johnson]

Very nice indeed Steve, #8 is superb

 

[Chr1stof]

Would you mind doing a quick run through the PP?
Interesting read on flickr too.
Thanks

 

[stevet20]

Chr1stof

Nothing special in post processing 99% work completed in camera raw 1% in Photoshop but here's a quick walk through for number 8

In Camera raw

In the basic panel
1. Exposure adjustments
2. Tweak Highlights to drop down the blown out spotlights
3. Drop the shadows to make the sparkle of the lights stand out (sorry don't know best to describe them )
4. Tweak the whites to take some of the harshness of the light reflected of the aircraft

In the sharpening/noise reduction panel
1. Drop the sharpening to 0
2. Adjust the Luminance just so the luminance noise disappears
3. Sharpen to about 25-30
4. Adjust the masking so that only the main features are sharpened

In the lens correction panel
1. Remove chromatic aberration
2. Enable default lens corrections

In Photoshop

1. Save as PSD
2. Clone stamp out bits and pieces
3. Crop
4. Save as JPEG

Hope this helps

 

[Chr1stof]

Cheers, I know very little about PP. Need to spend some (well, a lot) time on it and post like the above give me some pointers what to start with.

 

[stevet20]

No problem happy to help