Photo Presets

I don’t ever want to see another elderly folk dancing group. Ever. Or ballet dancers with embarrassing personal wetness issues (Chris, is that a dust spot in this photo? Um, no. Eeewww!!! Get that woman a panty liner).

What am I talking about, you ask? I just finished editing 772 photos from last Sunday’s Magic City Art Connection (still have Friday and Saturdays photos to do). Since ONB will be using the photos for promotional purposes I didn’t have to get too creative with them, mainly just cleaning up dust spots and slightly adjusting the exposure and saturation. Luckily since I was doing the same thing to most all of the photos I created a preset in Lightroom. Here’s an example:

This photo isn’t a great example, actually, since there is so much going on, I just love the little girl’s expression. It’s like she’s saying, “What am I doing up here with all these crazy white people?” Anyway, the left is straight from the camera. The right is after the Jenny Fix It preset. I was going for a subtle change, not obviously Photoshopped, slightly deeper blacks and colors.

I will do a little more tweaking on this one, but you get the idea.  I love Lightroom.

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