10The Magic of the Digital Darkroom

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The digital darkroom—Lightroom and Photoshop—is where we can check, rescue, enhance and play with our exposures. It’s also were we can create HDR images and play with plug-ins. I will cover all those topics in this chapter, starting with a properly exposed image I made of my friend Minyoung in my home studio. A smoke machine was used to create the smoke—which set off the fire alarm in my home. That will not happen again—because the next time I use a smoke machine I will deactivate the fire alarm. A speedlite was placed behind Minyoung to accentuate the smoke. I placed a speedlite in a softbox off to camera ...

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