This past weekend I conducted my first “Digital Art Class” with Capital Photography Center. The course helped guide participants in seeing photography as an artist would and how to begin the process out in the field when capturing an image.

This past week I visited my favorite Tundra swan flock and noticed that there were two swans sleeping next to each other. In seeing it, I could imagine what I would do in the Digital Art room once I brought the image home.

Here is the original image with some basic Lightroom edits including contrast, clarity, noise reduction and softening of the color saturation.

Recently I had been given a set of Lightroom Presets to review from SleekLens and the set I was provided is from their Through The Woods Workflow collection. This collection includes 51 Develop Presets and 30 Brush adjustment presets. With the current price of $39.00 this…