Rick Spaulding will talk about the latest in digital SLR equipment – everything from camera bodies, to lenses and flashes.

Rikk Flohr, professional photographer and trainer, will discuss his Lightroom HDR worklow as well as configuring and using external editors in Lightroom (including Enfuse and the Photomatix LR Plugin.)

The HDR workflow consists of:

1. ID Images and stack by time
2. Find bracketed image set in Lightroom
3. Zero Settings using the preset.
4. On darkest image set recovery to keep brightest highlights out of Recovery area of histogram. Some images may require an adjustment of 100
5. Go to middle exposure and adjust Chromatic Aberrations on the Detail tab.
6. Adjust Chromatic Aberrations on each over and under exposed image individually.
7. Select all bracketed and go to PHOTO-EDIT IN-Merge to HDR in Photoshop
   In Photoshop, process the HDR into a 32 bit image through the Merge to HDR dialog adjusting the sliders to retain highlights and shadows.
8. Convert to 16 Bit and select the best looking item from the pull down.
9. Adjust the curves in the Convert dialog to almost touch the blacks and whites.
10. Close Photoshop. (Save when prompted) (Image will reappear in Lightroom.)
11. Adjust (in this order) White Balance, Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light, Blacks, Clarity.
12. Set Saturation to +10
13. Adjust Vibrance to taste.
14. Crop, fine tune etc.
15. Edit in Photoshop to do final cloning and miscellaneous adjustments.

For PhotoMatix or Enfuse, substitute steps 7-11 with export and processing through the appropriate program. With PhotoMatix processing omit step 13 as necessary.

Rikk Flohr © 2009

Craig Marble, Senior Lightroom QE Lead, will give out some insider tips about presets in Lightroom which are:

1. Import – File Naming
2. Import – Develop Settings
3. Import – Metadata
4. Library – Keyword Sets
5. Library – Metadata
6. Library – Identity Plates
7. Library – Filter Presets
8. Library – Color Label Sets
9. Library ‐ External Editor Preset
10. Develop – Presets Panel
11. Develop – Local Corrections Adjustment Brush
12. Develop – Local Corrections Gradient Filter
13. Develop – Camera Calibration Profiles
14. Develop – Crop Aspect Ratio (this is more like recent settings than a preset)
15. Develop – Camera Default Settings
16. Slideshow – Templates
17. Slideshow – Custom Text – Text Template Editor
18. Print – Templates
19. Print – Photo Info – Text Template Editor
20. Web – Templates
21. Web – FTP Settings
22. Export – Presets
23. Export – File Naming
24. Export – Post Processing

Q & A session and great give-aways will follow. (Must be present to win.)

Members of the Photoshop and Lightroom development teams will be on hand to help answer questions.

Location – Easel Solutions, 7pm to 9pm.