Tests With Lightroom 2.3

Benrath

Tried to get something from that interesting form in PS:
Exposure
Shadows
Contrast
Levels
Gradient curve
Saturation

The result is quite nice but i think this photo can do better.

So i did a Color management Seminar for photographers and the insturctor advised me to check out some new programs for photographers, like DXO (that can fix your camera distortions), Lightroom (for post production, print and web) and some plugins for photoshop like, Mask Pro 4 (cropping background or people), Focal Point (focusing and vignetting) , Genuine Fractals (scaling till 1000% of the source image), Portrait Professional 8 (fixing portrait tool) and Zoner PhotoStudio 10 (for organizing all your stuff better).
I hope I'll get to check all off them here latter on this blog.

Here is the first test with Lightroom 2.3
satisfying reflections after all

DTM auf der Kö

Deutsche Touring Meisterschaft - Düsseldorf

Oster in Berlin

Oster drunk
All the images from that trip are here

Nachtaufnahmen Praxis

Sitzbank in Düsseldorf

to learn a bit more about night photography i did a seminar

The Mask

'The Mask'
Made with NIKON D70 kit

NIKKOR 18 70mm 1:3:5-4:5

and i did some
Noise reduction
Blur(DOF)
Exposure Control
Colorbalance
Levels
...etc

Comments are welcome.