From the course: Photo Tips and Tools Weekly

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Fix and finish a portrait in Lightroom

Fix and finish a portrait in Lightroom

From the course: Photo Tips and Tools Weekly

Fix and finish a portrait in Lightroom

- [Chris] Hello friends, this is Chris Orwig. Welcome to my weekly series where I share with you some tips and tricks which will help you to capture and create better photographs. Now, in this week's episode, we are here in Lightroom. We'll be working with this photograph that I captured of a local firefighter, and I have so much respect for these men and women who do this work, and so, I'm really excited to work on this image, and to finish it off and then share it on Instagram. So, I want to go through the overall process start to finish on doing that. Now, as far as the capture goes, there was one light. I was using a Profoto B10 with a large umbrella with diffusion, just adding a little bit of that accent there and the whole ambient light was much brighter. So, I wanted to darken all of that down and create a little more drama. Okay, well, let's start to process the image. So, I'm going to begin by cropping the…

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