Camera’s View

Seems as if I just can not leave well enough alone.
I just returned from a two week trip around the beautiful state of Oregon and have been going over some of my images.
I no sooner got to an image of the Yaquina Head Light when I started to play around with it inside Adobe Lightroom [...]

In the previous post I referenced a preset created for draining all colors except red.
It’s actually easier than you might think.
Here are two images of butterflies where I drained out most of the color.

Technique
In the Lightroom Develop module -

Perform your desired tonal adjustments
In the HSL/Color/Grey scale panel, select Color
Drop all the saturation levels to zero [...]

Matt Kloskowski of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Blog, posted a new preset he calls “Sin City Look”.  Basically what Matt is doing is draining all the colors out of an image and leaving just the reds.
I did something similar  to this in a previous posting but I never created or saved a [...]

Beautiful night here in New England, so my wife and I decided to dine out at the Clam Box in Ipswich MA.
After consuming more fried food than we probably should, we headed to Ipswich Neck and Bay area to check out the ocean and views.
Here is an image I captured of Ipswich Bay looking towards [...]