15 hours ago, imacro said:The photos turned out average :-/. The ray was not very strong on the day I dived. What do you guys think I can do in LR mobile to pop it more?
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Good photos. Especially the first one has potential, since you avoided to directly get the bright opening in the picture (when going for the light beams, avoiding to directly image the opening is an important method, as can be read also in Alex Mustards famous book). As said previously by several, these openings easily can destroy the image, when blown out. In addition there are the light beams entering the cave and the light beam from the divers lamp that have different spectra...
My personal processing would be (everybody will have his/her own preferences): Increase "shadows", "clarity" and "exposure" (reduce "highlights" a little, but not too much). Adjust "whites" and "blacks", so that neither are oversaturated, but the mayority of dynamic range is used. Then have a look at the noise and reduce if required ("luminance"). Subsequently I would process in photoshop with "autotone" and "autocontrast", but almost never 100%, use "undo" and then "fade" to apply only part of that filtering, according to taste. At the end some sharpening (also here "fade" to take not 100% of the filter). Finally the TIF file can be tweaked again in LR (eventually "clarity" and "vibrance", "saturation" and WB according to taste).
Eager to see the outcome...
Wolfgang
