Shutter-life|Adaptive photography and more, by Henrik Johansson

This is a macro of saw blade. I tried several different compositions and angles and this photo turned out to be one of the best.

As I’ve written before, I use Lightroom as my main tool for processing and organizing photos. One of the features that I initially found to be hard to use was the split toning functionality. Using split toning, you can add separate color tones to the highlights and the shadows. The implementation in Lightroom 1.x was quite bad, but I major improvement was made for Lightrom 2. Instead of using sliders to select the color tone, you now pick it from a color map. This makes it much easier to use split toning and to select the exact color tone that you want to apply.

For this shot, I added a combination of red and yellow to both the highlights and the shadows. The tone applied to the highlights are slightly redder and a bit more saturated than the tone for the shadows. I also increased the contrast and made some changes to the hue. As you can, I also cropped and tilted the photo.