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Mousam Mouth<\/h4>\n

Just a gentle landscape shot, out across the marshes toward the mouth of the Mousam River\u2026a rarity for the cost of southern Maine these days in that it is a unprotected<\/em> river mouth\u2026no jetty\u2026therefore one of the last wild, unmanaged <\/em>beaches. <\/p>\n

This is a good example of what a little help from Lightroom can do for a landscape. The original\u2026<\/p>\n

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has potential but is overall rather dull. Applying my normal processing\u2026Recovery for the sky, touch of Fill Light, Blackpoint to the right,  added Clarity and Vibrance, and sharpening\u2026improves the sky but leaves the foreground too dark and still dull\u2026maybe duller since the highlights are stripped from the grasses as well. <\/p>\n

This is when I resort to Lr\u2019s graduated filter effects.<\/p>\n

Drawing one down from the top across the sky and well into the landscape, I am able to reduce some Brightness, and add additional Clarity and and a bit of Contrast to bring up detail in the clouds. Then, drawing a graduated filter up from the bottom about 2\/3rs of the frame, I am able to add Brightness, increase Clarity and Contrast, to bring out both the color and the detail in the foreground. I call it the dualing GrFilter effect<\/em>. Finally, since the midground right along the horizon was left a little dark, I went in with the Local Adjustment Brush in Lightroom and defined a brush that was mostly feather\u2026then drew an area along the horizon and added Brightness and Clarity. The result is a far different image\u2026but arguably one closer to what the eye sees, rather than what the sensor captures. Mind you, Lr does not add<\/em> anything to what the sensor caught\u2026it just remaps the tones to a closer approximation of the visual. In that sense, the sensor and the camera did a great job of capturing the scene\u2026since all the information needed to post-process was in the file! <\/p>\n

Note that I am working from the jpeg file, and even with the limitations of jpeg, a lot is still possible in Lr.<\/p>\n

From Around Home 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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