Filmmaker & color ninja Stu Maschwitz recently visited the Bay Area Lightroom User Group for an interesting event. LR add-on maker Jeffrey Friedl writes,
Stu Maschwitz sits down to a blacked-out Lightroom catalog loaded with a couple dozen photos submitted by strangers, and one by one he unveils and processes them as the whim strikes him, providing a running commentary about his artistic reasons for doing things, or technical comments about how to achieve in Lightroom whatever look he’s going for.
The running commentary on the hows and whys provide ample little seeds that may germinate ideas when processing your own photos.
It’s not a “how-to” video, and it’s not a demonstration of the “right way” to process photos… It’s just Stu looking at a stranger’s photo and instantly deciding what that photo’s “story” is to him, and then proceeding to crop and adjust the photo so that as far as he’s concerned, it better tells that story.
For a LR novice like me- and having never had the chance to see someone who knows what theyre actually doing use LR before- this was awesome. Love that it’s not just a tutorial on specific techniques, but a look into photographic creative direction as well. Stu’s pretty funny too. Thanks for sharing!