Clear Sky On A Warm Afternoon

More From The Striking Sunset

This is another photo that I used Hue Shift to my advantage on. This time it was not by adding hue but by taking away. After adding the usual Recovery, Clarity and Vibrance in Lightroom, I went down a bit on the exposure to get the color blue I wanted. When I tried to add more orange and yellow with Hue Shift nothing happened, but I noticed when I dialed the yellow all the way down, it did change the color of the clouds closest to the horizon. I tried all the color and found that by taking away all the yellow and green I was left with the pink tones without it effecting the rest of the photo in any way.

Hue Shifts To Accentuate Colors.

This is a dog walking shot from this evening. The sky was full of amazing cloud bands and the sunset splash on this building made them the perfect backdrop. This was also the first time that I have played around with Hue Shifts in Lightroom to bump the green and orange on the building.

Evening Contrails

Here is a little example of the small things you can do to an image in Lightroom that only take one minute and have a big effect on the finished photo. This is an evening shot from the other night.



The first action in Lightroom was to straighten the picture a bit by adjusting the angle of the crop. What I try and do with buildings is pick the longest horizontal or vertical line and get it as close to level without pulling the other parallel lines out of whack.

Next comes Recovery. I used about +70 on this edit to really make the windows pop. After that I added 50 Clarity. Then a small(+30) tweak on the Vibrance and +20 Saturation to bring a deeper blue into the evening sky. Lastly I gave the corners a bit of definition with some Lens Vignetting. I don't usually go negative and darken any corners, but it does seem to work on this image. Here is the end result.