Can I get some lightroom help? I'm fairly new to photography

Practice, look at tutorials, hating your work is a good sign. Keep taking pictures until you think you live up to your own expectations, I've been doing this for 5 years and still think I suck.

>>3104639
any tutorial suggestions? I've been watching a few and it's mostly "this is what all the buttons do", not much in the way of practical advice.

>>3104644
I made the mistake of being roped in by professional hacks and it took me 2 years to unlearn their over edited crap. I have no real list of tutorials other than who to avoid. Find your niche, share your work, take criticism wherever you can from people that won't placate your emotions. Unless you're naturally gifted, it will take you years of practice before people won't think you're a joke. The only thing you can do to improve is take thousands of pictures, edit hundreds of them, share your work, accept criticism, and improve, there is A LOT of trial and error in photographer since there is an infinite amount of variables to work with.

I'm not anywhere trained enough to critique your work, I just go by instinct, there are plenty of people that frequent this board that will. As in, with the picture you posted, I have no idea what the subject of the photo is supposed to be, just looks like a random snapshot of a road at night that has a stadium half way in frame, which distracts from the image, too much clutter. I'll give you credit that at least your photo is clear and you have the good sense to use a tripod.

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>>3104650
I see! Ok, good feedback. I will post some more and see what sticks and what doesn't

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ok, this is the last one I think I will post

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Ok, here's one more
please bully

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>>3104659
>>3104665
okay okay okay
>>3104673
>>3104684
aight i feel you
>>3104686
>>3104692
mm okay
>>3104697
>>3104699
haha listen
>>3104700
>>3104701
>>3104744
keep it up haomie

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>>3104887
Thank you for the feedback! Here's two more

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What do you think of this path? I spent probably an hour trying to get a good shot of it and don't think I ever did.

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took some new ones today - tell me what you think

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download presets offline. I usually download film emulation presets, take all the grain out, reduce the vibrance, and adjust the fade/exposure accordingly. Fujicolor 400 N is a perfect one to start with. Also just download presets from the thread on here. It's pretty easy.

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>>3105396
Thank you! I will try them out.

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Try shooting film. The post processing you do is more fun and your shots look better

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>>3104679
Those mountains look so fucking similar to where i live. Where is this?

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>>3105645
That one is right outside of Eldorado Springs, Colorado

>>3105594
What's the buy in for film? I feel like I've already spent a lot on my digital gear, but looking at the pictures on this board taken in film I am very drawn to the softness and cinematic quality. How much would it cost me, including the learning process. Would I need to take classes?

>>3105315
what are ya taking these on?

>>3105717
I'm using a Nikon d3400 with a 50mm 1.2 lense

>>3105720
oh damn f1.2?

>>3105736
Yes, I read that it was good for shooting at night.

>>3105776
for sure

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OK, here are some from today - some lightroom work on them. Hopefully it's not too much!

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critiques are welcome on my lightroom monstrosities.

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I dont mean to hijack but what do you use to resize your pictures? I also own a d3400 and I can't seem to resize my photo's without them looking horribly pixelated whereas your photos are still quite clear.

>>3107278
I'm not the guy you asked. But appart from obvious options like Photoshop or GIMP, you can use Paint.net, Infraview, and a bunch of others. Including the software which should of came with your camera.

Sounds like you are either doing nearest neighbor resizing or your JPG images are being saved with a pretty low quantizer (quality value).

>>3107278
There's an export option in Lightroom to change the resolution - that's what I used. Other than that, you could use GIMP and specify a specific scaling algorithm.

>>3104639
>>3104650
Not OP but also stuck in the postprocessing... I think I never get it right so it's comforting reading that.

>>3105396
That would be a good advice. Is there any other film preset that can be a good start? also, is there any preset that I can throw just by any kind of picture? I don't need it to be the best I just hate it when all the pictures look similar so I'm trying to get an homogeneous look in all of them. That's why a single "multipurpose" preset would be perfect

>>3107686
I went to the lightroom thread and downloaded some presets, but all the ones I tried out were either too severe or too insignificant. I'm not sure if there's something I should be doing beforehand - I put a preset on this one:
>>3107256
but it just made everything kind of blue, so I don't know