Free Lightroom Preset – Put Your Helmet On
A lot of support bands cop fairly poor lighting during their sets. This is intentionally done so as to not out-do the main act. Red gelled lighting, left motionless for the entire set is not uncommon. This was certainly the case for Leader Cheetah as they opened for Gomez @ the Gov recently. Luckily, I have [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – People Are Dying
If you shoot at the same venue repeatedly, you will invariably wind up shooting the same performer at the same venue more than once. To make each set different, I like to shoot the first time “as is“, then the next time I shoot them, apply a lightroom preset to give a different feel. Such [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Kendra’s Letter
I really love how this preset gives pop to an otherwise flat image, bringing out waaaaay more details, particularly in the shadows. That’s in part to the fill light slider cranked pretty high to 85. Try going further if your image is especially dark to begin with. It’s also got just a nice amount of [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – The K-Mart Kid
You know when the stage lighting really sucks for the first three songs, but then once you’ve put your gear away and are enjoying the show, everything steps up 10 notches? The spotties come on, gelled, rotating rear facing lights and smoke machines creates a sense of depth behind the drummer, massive LED panels stretched [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Hoogan Schnoogan
Consistent, unchanging lighting (whether it be good or bad) at a show can actually work in your favour if, like me, you enjoy a little post production here and there! When confronted with lighting of this nature, I love leaving all my settings the same for every shot (ok, so I’ll adjust the shutter a [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Darn It!
When forced to shoot with flash for whatever the reason (usually due to a lack of stage lighting), I have thoughts of heavy post processing in the back of my mind as I’m clicking that shutter. Smaller venues are typical candidates for sketchy lighting, like the Gaslight Tavern where I shot Militant Groove as they [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Mooga
Pulling detail out of heavy shadowed areas is not easy. If you simply decrease the blacks you introduce a lot of noise and lose loads of contrast. With this FREE Lightroom preset I call Mooga, I’ve compensated for this by increasing both the exposure and the fill lights (plus a little more in the backend, [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – B&W Weapon
Black & White Lightroom presets: you can never have enough of them!! Each has its own pros and cons: some don’t allow anywhere near enough contrast with the resulting image looks more like someone has dragged coal over paper than a work of photographic genius, others simply desaturate all colour from the image – brilliant [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Cat McPherson
Here’s a preset with a silly name, but they say you remember silly things more than normal. I do anyway… I use tweaks of this preset ALL THE TIME!. It’s gold, gold, gold for bands in particular, as demonstrated nicely here by Poetikool Justice. You will more than likely have to tweak the black clipping [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Happenin Style
This preset is for when you have an over exposed image that with just a wee bit of white clipping going on. I love how the shadows are super punchy with this preset and on a fair skinned model like Renee below, the results are pretty impressive. * Download Happenin Style here. Once installed, you should [...]
Free Lightroom Preset – Erpla
Here’s a great preset from that I come back to from time to time – it works well when there is a generous amount of contrast within the image. Having said that, I haven’t used it for glamour work much before and was surprised at the results when I tried it on this shot of [...]
