Now that I’ve told you not to place the main subject in the center of the frame, I’m going to tell you to do the exact opposite! There are times when placing a subject in the center of the frame works really well. Having the rule of thirds grid activated in live view on my camera really helped me with composition when I took this photograph. The cobbled street roughly occupies the bottom third of the frame the building ground floors frontages occupy the middle third and the upper floors of the buildings occupy the top third. In this street photograph taken in my home city of Dublin, I’ve placed the woman in red walking along the street on the point where two of the grid lines intersect. The spires of the church are placed near the horizontal line to the right of the frame. Most of the buildings sit in the middle third and the square itself occupies the bottom third of the frame. In this photo of the Old Town Square in Prague, I’ve placed the horizon along the top third of the frame. The photo wouldn’t have the same impact if the larger trees had been placed in the center of the frame. In this photo, I’ve placed the horizon roughly along the bottom third of the frame and the biggest and closest trees along the line to the right. Placing it off-center using the rule of thirds will more often than not lead to a more attractive composition. We have a natural tendency to want to place the main subject in the middle. The idea is to place the important element(s) of the scene along one or more of the lines or where the lines intersect.

Check your camera’s manual to see how to turn on this feature. Many camera manufacturers have actually included the capability to display this grid in live view mode. You divide the frame into 9 equal rectangles, 3 across and 3 down as illustrated below. In my defense, I didn’t come up with the name. So I’ve just told you that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to composition and then the first thing I write about is the ‘rule’ of thirds. Once you get it, Lightroom is great and you can do what you want.We’ll start with probably the most well-known composition technique: The Rule of Thirds. The other thing to keep in mind is that everyone is going to have an opinion on what you should do. The library functions of Lightroom are the most difficult. Here again, pick key words carefully and stick to them. Then key word the crap out of your images. You want to pick something that if you shoot with multiple cameras will not result in a crash when you end up with the same file name from two different cameras. New images can be imported to file structure you set up. Nothing worse than two file structures or more to make it impossible to find your images. Set up your file structure outside of Lightroom, and then import all your existing images into Lightroom. Get it the way you want it and then stick to it. There are lots of tutorials on it and lots of books. I suggest spending sometime setting up your file structure. I convert and have never had a problem since Lightroom 1 where I started. I hope someone can give me an answer that will be more understandable than technical, but that may have a workflow suggestion or two with it.Ĭonverting to DNG will make the files smaller, but yes once you convert you have gone to the dark side forever. Will Lightroom automatically read my ORF files when I import them to Lightroom from a file, whether from the Olympus Photo Editor of from a computer file? or Do I have to convert those ORF files to DNG format and import those files into Lightroom? Can I eliminate the Olympus Photo Editor, or should I not even think about it? I suspect that I have to save the images to a file(s) and or folder(s) on my computer if I do not use the Olympus Photo Editor. I would prefer to eliminate the Olympus Photo Editor and just import directly to Lightroom. When I import my Raw (0RF) images from the camera card to the computer via USB port, they currently go to the Olympus Photo Editor and then I pull them into Lightroom. I do not understand something which may be easily explained. Youtube tutorials were a big help to me in the learning process for Lightroom Classic. I am somewhat new to Lightroom Classic CC.

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