Parting Shot

Brook Peterson · Issue 83, Mar/Apr 2015 · pp. 84–87

Products mentioned: Nikon D7000, Sea and Sea Housing, YS-D1 Strobes, 105mm lens, +10 diopter

the tentacles were a color combination of both the Blue and Aqua hues, but I was able to further improve the overall color by manually moving the Aqua slider further left to get the color I’m looking for. (Figure 2) Color saturation was them optimized under the Saturation tab. Here, I again used the TAT to increase color intensity by clicking and dragging on the same region of tentacles. I also increased saturation throughout the red and orange tonal ranges by manually moving both sliders to improve the overall color on the crab and further strengthen the color contrast going on between the reds and greens which helps make a stronger shot. (Figure 3) As I’m working with multiple images of the same subject matter I want to do similar edits to, I can save time, by applying these develop changes to the rest of the series using Lightroom’s Synch command. To do that, I must first select the r…