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I went to stay with my brother and his family for a few days last week, I was hoping to take some photos when I was there but the weather was unbelievably dreadful and we had 5 very grey, very wet days. I like to take landscapes really, I enjoy taking them in manual and spend ages fiddling around with my camera and really take my time. I don't like taking portraits and I'm not very good at it at all so when my sister-in-law asked me to take a 'formal' family photo when we visited Brigham Rocks I didn't have a good feeling about it.
To cut a very long story short, I was having an extremely bad day/year, which resulted in me just putting the camera on autofocus (which isn't as good as manual on my camera) and preset it to 'portrait' and just took a few snaps. There was only so much I could have done given the weather but unsurprisingly, I've ended up with some very flat, dull photos.
I tried to jazz them up a bit in Lightroom but I've only been using it for two weeks and I'm really still finding my feet with it so I feel like I'm fighting a bit of a loosing battle.
I've copied one of the photos below (they're all like this) so you can see what I mean, any suggestions as to what I could do to them to make them look 'better' would be very very much appreciated. I took them all in RAW format so I can tweak the exposure a it but I don't know how to 'lighten' isolated areas or anything.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/NLPDBT]IMG_3227 by Justine Edwards, on Flickr[/URL]
To cut a very long story short, I was having an extremely bad day/year, which resulted in me just putting the camera on autofocus (which isn't as good as manual on my camera) and preset it to 'portrait' and just took a few snaps. There was only so much I could have done given the weather but unsurprisingly, I've ended up with some very flat, dull photos.
I tried to jazz them up a bit in Lightroom but I've only been using it for two weeks and I'm really still finding my feet with it so I feel like I'm fighting a bit of a loosing battle.
I've copied one of the photos below (they're all like this) so you can see what I mean, any suggestions as to what I could do to them to make them look 'better' would be very very much appreciated. I took them all in RAW format so I can tweak the exposure a it but I don't know how to 'lighten' isolated areas or anything.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/NLPDBT]IMG_3227 by Justine Edwards, on Flickr[/URL]