Creative Lightroom Pt 7

Tim Parkin

Tim Parkin is a British landscape photographer, writer, and editor best known as the co-founder of On Landscape magazine, where he explores the art and practice of photographing the natural world. His work is thoughtful and carefully crafted, often focusing on subtle details and quiet moments in the landscape rather than dramatic vistas. Alongside his photography and writing, he co-founded the Natural Landscape Photography Awards, serves as a judge for other international competitions. Through all these projects, Parkin has become a respected and influential voice in contemporary landscape photography.

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In this installment of the Lightroom videos we'll be looking at Lens Corrections module. This corrects chromatic aberration, vignetting, distortion and perspective correction.

If you have any questions please let us know and we'll add to this article.

Here are the images we will be looking at.

Firstly we corrected the horizon and used a lens profile to correct the distortion on this image

Vignetting and levelling

Then we looked at chromatic aberration correction on a photograph of Tim's taken on an old Canon FD 24mm f/2.8 lens. Here's the before and after

Before

After

We'll look in depth at chromatic aberration in a future article as it's more complicated than it first seems.

Following this we looked at perspective correction, distortion and vignetting on this Saltwick image of Joe's

Before

After

and finally we took a look at Lightroom's ability to correct axial chromatic aberration (correctly known as secondary spectrum aberrations or sometimes spherochromatism).

Before

After