Bhardeep Dhaliwal: Lightroom Editing- Snowbaru STI

Earlier this week i went to Snoqualmie at night and took some shots for my friend, I figured this would be a good thing to use for one of my Blog Posts.

• We went at night and Snoqualmie was full of snow, i had him park his car in a huge parking lot with the mountain side behind his car. We set it up like this so the car wasn't just the only thing in the picture. The snow is white and reflects light so i didn't need an exposure as long as usual. 
• I set up his car, and then put my camera on my tripod and framed the shot how i wanted. Then i took a few tests shots and eventually found the settings that i thought looked about right. 
• Exposure: 4 Seconds
• F/ 13
• ISO: 400
• The shot came out solid, good exposure. Only thing off was that the snow and whole shot looked yellow because of the lights. 

• First thing i did with the shot was shadows and highlights, i brought out the shadows and turned down the highlights as i always do
• Second i messed with the blacks and white's, making sure everything was properly exposed. 
• Then i added clarity to the shot as a whole. Then using the brush tool i learned about in the book, i added clarity specifically to the top half of the picture since it looked hazy from the fog.  
• Next, i brought the white balance more to the blue side. I wanted the snow to look more white.
• Doing the same thing as the last step, I used the graduated filter they talked about in section 4. I placed it from the top going down and added way more blue. I liked the color tone of the bottom half and only wanted to change the top mountain side to match it. This tool did that perfectly. 
• Finally I decided to make the car purple, just because I'm a rebel and wanted too. I felt like it looked decent and was snazzy. 

EVERYTHING IS PURPLEEEEE