📷 Photo Post-Processing Experimentation In Lightroom - Bland Into Dramatic

Paddy fields in Hualien.

The image above is the result of me playing around with some editing in Lightroom using more extreme settings than I would normally use. The photo was shot in Hualien, Taiwan with a Sony A7 and 16-35mm lens.

In this post I'd like to show you guys the settings I used to achieve this image.

First a before and after side-by-side comparison, the before is what it looked like after I imported into Lightroom, cropped to match the after shot.

The first thing I did was rotate the image to make the horizon level, and cropped the image. Then I applied the following settings:

Finally, I added a graduated filter to make the sky even more dramatic, the following shows where I placed the filter in Lightroom, along with the filter settings:

These kind of edits are a little extreme to my liking, as I was trying to see what I could do to an image that I normally wouldn't share lol. But maybe now after the edit, I wouldn't mind sharing :)

Here's an animations showing the difference:

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Equipment Used

• Camera: Sony A7
• Lens: Zeiss 16-35mm f/4

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