We have the second instalment of our “Lightroom Insights” article in this issue, with Joe Cornish and me taking a look at photographs from one of our willing volunteers. I got in touch with Ross Davidson to ask if he’d be happy to donate a RAW file and he said yes (with some trepidation I imagine!). Ross’s photographs are both taken from the flanks of Ben Nevis (near the top of the zig zags) and look toward the South and South West. Neither Joe nor I had a preview of the way that Ross had edited the files (both taken on his Nikon Z7ii) so it was an interesting exercise in personal expression.

The recordings went well and we even stayed pretty close to our goal of only 30 minutes for edit. Annoyingly, I had a hard drive error when editing the recordings and so my screen recording didn’t work. Fortunately, Joe still had his recording of our Zoom session so only a bit of quality was lost. Looking back at the sessions, I think they’re a really intriguing way of approaching a few photographic topics. Firstly, the very obvious of ‘how do you use Lightroom?’ and secondly the ‘How do you approach post-processing a photograph?’ and finally ‘What do different people do when processing the same photograph?’.

If you’re interested in subjecting one of your photographs to Joe and my post-processing, please send in a raw file to submissions@onlandscape.co.uk.
Oh, and losing my screencast recording was annoying, BUT while I was trying to ‘fix’ my hard drive I did find an old photograph that I thought I’d lost in the previous hard drive failure. I applied some of the Lightroom editing approaches that Joe and I had used and ended up quite pleased with the outcome. Every cloud has a silver lining (or in this case a funny blue lining).

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