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Inspired by Ben Ingham’s superb photos for Rapha rides Norddal and other series, I have fiddled a little with the new “Grain” effect in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 RC1:

Nikon D300, 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 78mm, ISO 1600, f/3.5, 1/320.

Creating the above image took less than a minute using the “B&W”, “Post-Crop Vignetting” and “Grain” controls. Very nice to have effect like this built into Lightroom. I really like the Grain effect, and it makes it very easy to get exactly the result I was hoping to get with my Grainy B&W preset.

Here is the same photo developed with my standard Lightroom preset for Nikon D300 (with some small additional adjustments):

The Lightroom 3 beta is not finished enough to replace Lightroom 2, but it’s nice to test the new features. If you haven’t already: Download the Lightroom 3 beta from Adobe Labs: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 RC1.

I saved this preset as “Rapha”, and if you would like to test it, here it is: Rapha.lrtemplate (please note that this was just a quick test with one(!) photo, so I can guarantee that you will need to make additional adjustments).

Rapha has made some of Ben Ingham’s pohotos available as desktop backgrounds at www.rapha.cc/rapha-desktops. If you like these photos – and road cycling – maybe you should subcribe to Rouleur? (If you already do, and have a spare #1 issue, let me know..)

Ben Ingham’s website is beningham.net.

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