"diner at the green dragon" ©2007-2008 markkirschphotography
hi gang...
last night we looked at william eggleston's 'los alamos' portfolio, and discussed among other things, how eggleston cropped his photos, and the way he worked with color.
many of eggleston's images were cropped irregularly, so that seemingly horizontal subjects were forced to exist in a vertical world while rectangular subjects were frequently stuffed into a square box. but even as he was busy redefining the tenets of composition, eggleston's photographs were just as frequently heralded for their unusual color shifts- a result of the early/late day sunlight and artificial light he often used.
our focus this week is to work with the developer module in lightroom with a focus on the crop tool and the creative presets panel. your challenge is threefold.
firstly, choose a photograph and crop it using 3 different formats- one using the original aspect ratio, one using the opposite aspect ratio, and one square crop. post the original and all three crops to your blog.
second, pick another photo and modify it using the creative presets in the developer module. choose any three presets, and feel free to modify them as you see fit. post the results to your blog.
third, save one of the modified presets using the develop/new preset pulldown menu. locate the preset in the user/library/application support/adobe/lightroom/developer presets folder. make a copy of the preset [it will have the suffix .lrtemplate] and for now, just save it on a jump drive or on your home drive.
see you monday...
[brother]mark
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