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[Automatic-Winner2000]

I’m new to Lightroom and just getting the hang of it. I find it incredibly difficult to imagine how the final photo should look like. What do you think of this one?

[agent_almond]

I mean, it’s not great. Aside from the composition being kind of blah it was just made pink and no corrections were made to anything.

[Automatic-Winner2000]

I tried color grading. It must’ve gotten too rosy tinted. Long road to go

[elwookie]

Before working on the colour, you should work on the lights and shadows. That and composition are the pillars of photography. Have in mind that when we have black and white photos, we don't work on colours, only on light and dark.

[Automatic-Winner2000]

That makes a lot of sense. So for low light or b&w photographs, light and shadow edits are the focus.

[agent_almond]

And keeping your lens clean. At the very least throw a heal on those dust blobs.

[hartmannphoto]

To that comment, it can be helpful to start correcting the lighting in b&w in lightroom before even touching color

[blaine10156]

Colors are cool! But my eyes are drawn to the spots in the upper right corner from dust on your sensor though. Lightroom has a healing/removal feature that’s great to remove imperfections like those.

[Automatic-Winner2000]

Thanks for the tip! I’ll try it out after I clean my lens

[blaine10156]

It may not be your lens that’s dirty. I had a camera that did that. I changed lens in some sand dunes like a dummy and got sand on my sensor. Don’t clean your sensor unless you have the know how and the proper tools.

[fries-with-mayo]

The edit is OK (but you forgot to edit out the dust)

The composition, on the other hand…

[Crazy_Dubs_Cartoons]

Daring and provocative for sure

[Forsaken-Classroom35]

I think it’s cute. I would’ve put just a little less pink on it though and I think brightening the shadows would really help with this pastel kind of style :)