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Victoria
Bampton
“The Lightroom queen”
The team at Photo Live were sitting
around sharing a drink and discuss-
ing pre digital photography versus
today’s photography. One topic we
talked about for a while is how much
post processing did photographers
do in the dark room. Talking to our
friend Sarah (see her interview earli-
er in this issue) she said that people
like Ansel Adams were masters of
the darkroom.
Dodging and burning, according to
Ansel Adams were required in his
famous photo, Moonrise, so that
the sky looked darker. Doing some
Google snooping around we found
many examples of processing pre
digital. Master printer, Pablo Inirio
use to make test prints and then
make notations on what he felt an
image needed for the final print.
Today things are easier, there’s no
need to get a master printer to do
the hard work (although having a
good retoucher is a bonus for many
photographers), you can do quite a
bit of adjusting in Adobe Photoshop
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Lightroom. With that in mind we
asked the Lightroom Queen herself,
Victoria Bampton about post pro-
cessing of images both