What's your workflow?

[analbeard]

I've been a long-time lurker on stance works, and I absolutely adore the photography, it's a perfect union between photography and cars, my two biggest passions. My main question is this: how do you achieve what I would call the 'Stanceworks' look? Something like this:

[Matt Peters]

I would say that can be achieve using Lightroom..

[analbeard]

I would say that can be achieve using Lightroom..

care to elaborate..?

[Matt Peters]

Do you use Adobe Lightroom for your processing at all? You can achieve almost any look by editing the original RAW file.. You can load in presets and then tweak the look to suit!

My advice is if you don't have it, get it and play with the sliders..

Also if your looking for that shallow depth of field that is down to the apature of the lens, you control this by the f/stop..

[analbeard]

Do you use Adobe Lightroom for your processing at all? You can achieve almost any look by editing the original RAW file.. You can load in presets and then tweak the look to suit!

My advice is if you don't have it, get it and play with the sliders..

Also if your looking for that shallow depth of field that is down to the apature of the lens, you control this by the f/stop..

I do use Lightroom, yes, I usually work with jpg though to save on space. I know the dof is down to a large aperture, I was looking more about the way the light is very diffuse and soft.

[Kielan]

Rather than trying to mimic Mike's editing style, try and develop your own. It's perfectly ok to have your influences, but just trying to copy one person's style won't help anyone, and you won't learn much.

It takes a lot of practice to get to a point where you start to begin feeling satisfied with your own work, it took me 2 years, and 90% of my photos I still feel are lacking in terms of post processing.

And for what it's worth, I know Mike doesn't use LR.

[Jorge]

Adjustment brush on Lightroom helps a lot

[Nic.Kuiper]

Id say Photoshop would be the way to go. Tones and light are the two major things I focus on, but I still have shit loads to learn.

[Matt Peters]

I'm just getting into shooting with cars.. It's a whole different ball game!!
I've used several different processing styles and I think I'm slowly getting it to where I want!

[analbeard]

Rather than trying to mimic Mike's editing style, try and develop your own. It's perfectly ok to have your influences, but just trying to copy one person's style won't help anyone, and you won't learn much.

It takes a lot of practice to get to a point where you start to begin feeling satisfied with your own work, it took me 2 years, and 90% of my photos I still feel are lacking in terms of post processing.

And for what it's worth, I know Mike doesn't use LR.

cheers, I appreciate the input. I guess part of me wanting to know how to achieve the Stanceworks look is down to the want to develop my style more. I do have a range of things i do to my photos, but my shots are more landscape/architectural so they're rather different. I think i need to spend more time practicing with Lightroom.