Distilled Water (Lightroom tip)

Here's a little tip to enhance water with Lightroom. All it takes is a graduated filter. First the original photo (its already developed of course, but no effect on the water):


Water without alteration (FinePix S5Pro, 1/450s @ ISO 100; f/5.6, 50 mm DX)

And here's the "distilled" version with a graduated filter dragged in from the bottom, a little bit of negative exposure compensation (-0,20), maximum clarity and maximum contrast:


Water with more reflections & mirroring (FinePix S5Pro, 1/450s @ ISO 100; f/5.6, 50 mm DX)

I think its quite visible how much more of the reflection of the cliff in the river is there in the "distilled" version. This works quite well on all kinds of long time exposures with water, too - its possible to over-expose the water until it is not much but a white/grey mass and then get it all back like that in Lightroom (oh yes, I've used this quite often already in the photos I've shown in my web album;-).

Honk if you find this tip useful. :-)