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Technique

Verity Milligan shares her tips on

how she made her image from a

damp day in the Lakes print ready

I

love going to the

Lake District and

I’m always struck

by the diversity of

the landscape there. The

Eastern lakes such as

Ullswater have a serenity to

them, but if you head west

the landscape gets much

more rugged, giving way

to Wasdale and Wastwater.

There is a desolate feeling to

Behind the

print

3

Lighten the foreground

to help lead the viewer

through the image from the

front to the back.

4

Bring out the colour

in the sky and the

colour on the fells for

maximum impact.

1

Crop image to accentuate

the sweep of the shoreline

to the fells in the distance.

2

Bring out the moodiness

in the sky through the

highlight/shadow sliders.

Verity Milligan

Verity is a

professional

photographer based

in Birmingham. She

is an ambassador

for Zeiss and

regularly creates

imagery for organisations such as Visit

Britain and Yorkshire Tea. See http://www.

veritymilliganphotography.com.

PREPARING FOR PRINTING

1 Crop to right dimensions
The first thing I do is crop the image to the
relevant dimensions. It can be tempting to
‘free crop’, but this can be problematic when
it comes to printing the image. Sticking to an
established aspect ratio will make it easier for
you (or a client) to frame the product.

2 Lens correction

The first thing I do to an image in Lightroom

(or any editing software) is ensure I tick the

boxes Remove Chromatic Aberration and

Enable Profile Corrections. This makes sure

that any distortion that may occur when

shooting with a wideangle lens is corrected.

3 Local adjustments

Raw images tend to be very flat when they first

come out of the camera. I want to make sure

that the final edit is representative of the scene

I saw when I captured the image. For this, I use

my editing software to make adjustments to

Contrast, Highlights, Shadows and Clarity.