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How to Edit a Cinematic Scene in Lightroom

January 2, 2015 by Jack Luo 2 Comments

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Images © Wei Xi Luo | Photograph IO. All rights reserved.

For more Lightroom editing workflows like this one, click here. View the different steps distraction-free using the lightbox by clicking on the images. 

Did it ever happen to you that you took a shot in camera but visualized something totally different with your eye? Have you ever wondered how to turn a seemingly ‘ordinary’ image into a cinematic scene?

In this third article of the Lightroom Editing Series, we’ll turn a mundane scene of a New York yellow taxi into a cinematic-style piece of art. The picture itself was shot using a Fuji X-Pro1, 35mm f/1.4 lens at 1/125 sec @ f/1.4, ISO 400. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Lightroom Editing Series, Photography Tagged With: adobe lightroom, cinematic, cinematic scene, cinemtic, editing, lightroom, lightroom cinematic, lightroom editing series, new york, workflow

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