” don’t expect these to work on anything but street photography “
Most presets try to be everything for everyone, they are afraid to push the enveloppe. Not the Inspired Eye presets, they are absolutely NOT for everyone. They are for Street Photographers ONLY because they are designed to punch up the grit, deal with harsh light and play with the heartstrings of your viewers with some kick-butt tones.
Look at the image up top. I’m no magician but I knew you looked at the image to the right first. How do I know? Because the eye is attracted to contrast. But beyond that, you can see how the image was flat and after the image is boiled down to it’s BW essence for a punch-in-your-gut effect. These presets, applied on any other type of image would fail.
Here’s what I am saying: don’t expect these to work on anything but street photography. Try it on a wedding image and the bride and groom will look like monsters. Heck, I tried one of the presets on my wife’s portrait…unfortunately she was looking over my shoulder…and let’s just say that she didn’t talk to me for a while.
You might already be sitting on jaw-dropping images
” It’s simply fun to explore the different options the presets offer your images “
There’s two ways to get new images. You can either get yourself out there and shoot, or you can revisit your images. Imagine this: you are browsing your catalog of images and your eyes land on an image you made 3 years ago. You go ahead and apply a few presets on it. After the 3rd preset, heart skips a beat. The preset just showed you a whole other way to see the image, one you haven’t seen before.
When you look at your images for too long, you will get tunnel vision. Applying a few presets allows you to see the creative potential and boom, you are jolted out of your tunnel vision and you are once more exited about your images.
Fun Fact: Because I needed some images to show some before and afters in these pages, I went aead and processed some of my photographs with them. One image in particular, the one above, I passed by. But then I stumbled upon a preset that made it look real nice. I actually went ahead and pretty much abandoned my writing this piece. Careful: These might just be addicting.
Truth be told, the potential of your images has always been there but you preobably couldn’t see it, because you’ve been looking at the same image over and over again for too long. Can you imagine getting exited for an image that you shot 5 years ago as if it was brand new?
Presets allow you to make the most out of what you already have. It’s like having a few extra pairs of eyes looking at your work, showing exciting creative possibilities of images you already have.
Having coached photographers from all over the world, I can tell you from experience that what keeps many images from being remarkable is the post processing.
A wealth of Creative options
Elixir BW Applied
But…won’t you be like everyone else?
I can hear ya. If I use these…won’t these make me look like everyone else? I don’t want nobody else’s look on my images!
Testimonials from our users
The balance between the various elements manipulated in these presets are just right and they create a MUCH better starting point for this kind of work than I’ve ever gotten to on my own
Ray S.
I have been using the presets for a while now, and I have to admit that they are my favorite presets in Lightroom. I generally don’t use any – but sometimes I just gravitate towards them!!!
Jannette L.
The presets are a very good way to discover the enormous potential of LR but more importantly the potential in certain images. I have photos that would have been passed over in my catalog if not for these!
Not only the results are outstanding in one click, but it is also a good lesson on how certain sliders affect the spirit of an image. The presets are very useful, and they also allow you to progress in your understanding of Post Processing. Here’s a few images of mine above.
Christophe D.
Big thanks to Inspired Eye for all your time and effort in making these presets and then for having the generosity to make them available.
I really enjoy these presets…a lot. I like post processing images in my digital darkroom and having your presets gives me yet another option to work with….IMO a very no nonsense, lay it all on the line set of B+W presets
Joe K.
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Case Study: Stock Images
Because I wanted to show that these presets work very well for street photography and didn’t want torely solely on my own photography, I went ahead an got some street photography stock images. They are usually designed to be as bland as possible, look at the results the presets have on them:
For reference, presets used clockwise: Elixir color, Daywalker, Elixir color, Vagrant
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