What if your image could only communicate one thing: one major idea, overarching theme, or driving emotion? If you identified this, you’d discover your vision for that image—the internal, invisible guiding principle that directs both how you capture the image and how you develop it in the digital darkroom. Without vision, you likely find yourself flailing both behind the camera and in front of the computer—indiscriminately shooting and arbitrarily moving sliders in hopes of stumbling upon something great every once in a while. With vision, you bring direction and intention to both the creation and development of all your images.Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is about identifying your vision and using Lightroom’s Develop module to give voice—that outward expression—to your vision. Photographer David duChemin begins with the fundamentals of a vision-driven workflow, where he discusses everything from vision and style, to the importance of mood and color, to the crucial role of histograms and of getting the best possible digital negative to work with. After demonstrating how the Develop module’s tools affect the aesthetics of your image, duChemin then offers a straightforward approach to developing your images in accordance with your own personal vision: identify your intention, minimize the distractions, maximize the mood, and draw the viewer’s eye—all while leaving room for play and serendipity. Finally, duChemin applies this approach to 20 of his photographs as he takes you into his own digital darkroom and, beginning with the original RAW file, works step by step through the development of the final image.
Author(s): David duChemin
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 272
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
CHAPTER ONE: Vision in Focus......Page 17
CHAPTER TWO: Vision & Process......Page 21
The Process of Vision......Page 23
Vision in Process......Page 24
CHAPTER THREE: Vision & Style......Page 29
Adapt vs. Adopt......Page 31
Horses and Carts......Page 32
CHAPTER FOUR: A Vision-Driven Workflow......Page 33
What Is a Vision-Driven Workflow?......Page 35
What Are the Principles of a Vision-Driven Workflow?......Page 36
Process......Page 37
CHAPTER FIVE: Voice Training......Page 43
Make Your Blacks Black......Page 45
Histograms......Page 47
Give and Take......Page 50
Shooting RAW......Page 51
Visual Mass, or Pull......Page 53
Mood......Page 58
CHAPTER SIX: The Means of Expression......Page 61
The Develop Module......Page 64
Histogram......Page 65
White Balance (WB)......Page 67
Tone......Page 69
Presence......Page 77
Tone Curve......Page 81
About Hue/Saturation/Luminance......Page 85
HSL......Page 86
B&W......Page 88
So What?......Page 90
Split Toning......Page 91
Detail......Page 92
Sharpening......Page 93
Noise Reduction......Page 95
Lens Vignetting......Page 96
Chromatic Aberration......Page 97
Post-Crop Vignetting......Page 98
Grain......Page 99
Develop Tools......Page 101
Crop Overlay......Page 102
Spot Removal......Page 103
Red Eye Correction......Page 104
Graduated Filter......Page 105
Adjustment Brush......Page 108
Moving On......Page 109
CHAPTER SEVEN: 20 Visions, 20 Voices......Page 111
Pink Umbrella......Page 115
The Blacksmith......Page 121
Winnowing in Lamayuru......Page 127
Bound......Page 135
You Go Your Way......Page 143
Nizamuddin Chai......Page 149
Judy......Page 157
Toward Lamayuru......Page 163
Green Bike/Yellow Wall......Page 171
Brothers at Dawn, Bangladesh......Page 179
Tepees and Rice #1......Page 187
Tepees and Rice #2......Page 195
Spire over Leh......Page 205
Waiting on Allah......Page 213
Nizamuddin Elder......Page 221
Harvest Road......Page 227
Rays on Sapa......Page 233
Through the Paddies......Page 241
Lone Tree, Lone Buffalo......Page 249
Grandson......Page 257
Conclusion......Page 265
C......Page 269
K......Page 270
S......Page 271
Z......Page 272
