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How to Fake a Ray of Light in Lightroom (And Make a Dark Photo Feel Alive)
There’s a category of photo that lives on almost every photographer’s hard drive: the one that felt magical in person but came home looking flat, dark, or just… off. The light was doing something incredible, you saw it, you felt it, and somehow the camera disagreed. I have a folder of these. I used to just leave them there, hoping I’d eventually figure out what to do with them. What I’ve learned over time is that Lightroom’s masking tools, used intentionally, can actually reconstruct that feeling of light rather than just recover it.