This past year I went to Moscow (which has been on my bucket list since college) and it was truly amazing and spectacular. Since I was going for work I didn’t feel comfortable bringing my big DSLR camera (rookie mistake). So I was just taking pictures on my iPhone 7 and editing them on a free app I downloaded (another rookie mistake). When I got home and actually blew them up on the big computer monitor, I hated my edits and thought they looked awful. But I had the mindset of ‘oh well they look good on my phone, who cares?’ Then I discovered Lightroom and the glory of actually editing your photos on a legitimate application and the results are amazing!
One thing that amazes me about Lightroom is that I can have a pictures that I think are beautiful and perfect and then edit them in Lightroom and see how wrong I was. This is what happened with Sedona, I thought I had all these beautiful pictures where the color popped perfectly and everything was in sync, but then when I put the photo into Lightroom and enhance the natural colors, the originals only look subpar at best.
In 2010, after I graduated High School, my family and I went on a cruise to Alaska. Long story short it was breathtaking and insanely beautiful. I had just gotten my fist DSLR camera and I remember taking pictures of absolutely everything, including a bunch of staged family photos 🙂 They quickly became some of our favorite photos with the beautiful backdrops Alaska provides. At the time, I think Photoshop was the only mainstream photo editing tool available and it was crazy expensive, like over $1,000. So I didn’t do any updates to the photos. But of course when I started playing around in Lightroom, I had to go back and play around with some of the Alaska photos, or at least the ones that I could find.
