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CSI Miami look preset II

Pierre — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:45:28 +0000

Earlier I made a preset called CSI Miami. That preset mostly changed the saturation and color tones in a hard way. This time I made a new version called CSI Miami II (of course :-) ) It consists of three graduated filters, adjustments on white balance and some color tone changes.

You might wanna move the graduated filters (up or down depending on the horizon) to make the effect look good on your photos. Keep in mind that this preset works best on photos like the one in the example below.

By the way… I took this shot in Miami when I was there with my wife on our honeymoon :-)

If you need to change the graduated filters position. Press the Graduated Filters tool and grab any of the three filters and move them up or down.

The graduated tool in the Develop Mode

Select a “dot” to adjust the position

Preset in action:
SOOC/ORIGINAL

PH CSI Miami II

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Dramatic Ocean – For both sky and water

Pierre — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:43:28 +0000

I was sitting here with my old crappy laptop (you can’t even imagine) trying to be creative for a moment. After three crashes I almost gave up but I was to close to my goal…

Recently there was a “great” storm outside and I just had to take a ride out to the ocean to see it in action. I probably took about 150 shots before I went home again.

Actually I wanted to try to make some new HDR images (with three or more images merged) but my tripod was way to cheap to stand against the wind for multiple EV shots. Anyway I still got some nice shots and some that didn’t reached the top-10.This preview image was one of those that didn’t meet my demands of quality. Still, I though I could spice it up a little in Lightroom so I created this new preset called “PH Dramatic Ocean”. It’s a mix of two graduated filters tuning the horizon (above and below) + some more adjustments ;-) .

Preset in action

SOOC/ORIGINAL:

PH Dramatic Ocean:

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Let me enhance the beach…

Pierre — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:44:55 +0000

Hi everyone,

It has been some time now and I feel a bit ashamed I haven’t updated you with more presets lately. Obviously I’ve been on a two week trip to Thailand recently which made it impossible (well, almost) to get you some LR candy. I have around 700 photos that are lying on my externad HD right now, photos I’ve taken during this trip. It take some time to “take care” of them but when it’s done I promise I will show you some of them :-) Right now I’m happy to give you a brand new preset. I call it “Ocean Power“. I made it when I was cleaning up some of my beach shots to enhance to colors and brightness.The photo is one of many that I took when we visited “Ma Ya Bay“, the island where they recorded the movie “The Beach“. This place is unreal! Soo beautiful.

Preset in action

SOOC/ORIGINAL:

PH Ocean Power:

Enjoy!