New Lightroom D300 Preset
I’ve updated the Lightroom preset I use on all of my D300 images to get a good starting point similar to Capture or JPEG settings. I really like these settings and feel that the contrast and exposure are really nice in this preset. Download it right here.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Do you have any lightroom presents for the D3? I could sure use the help because what I see on my camera and what I see with the imported view are quite different.
Thank you in advance Jon for any help.
Wally
July 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Hi Wally,
I do not, as I do not own a D3 and wouldn’t be able to test it without some D3 RAW files. However, what you can do is start with this preset and then tweak it until it looks like the capture NX import of the D3 RAW file (or the raw+jpeg jpeg, or the extracted JPEG from the raw - these should all be the same)
Hopefully one day I can get a D3, or whatever else Nikon has under their sleeve for the future. I can’t justify the D700 either at this point, but one day… The D300 hit a good point of cost vs quality for me.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hi, Jon,
Just wanted to thank you for this preset. I just got a D300 and have been trudging through calibration scripts, in search of a calibration that gives a balance between good skin tones and accurate colors elsewhere. It seems to me that the default profile in Lightroom is way off. Skin tones are washed out, and saturated blues blow out so quickly it’s ridiculous. My calibration scripts were giving better colors in clothing, but skin tones were too red in some cases. Yours does better with skin tones than anything I’ve made or found so far. You’ve obviously got a feel for how to adjust the calibration controls — something I’m still getting the hang of.
Keep up the good work, and thanks so much for sharing it!
Peace,
Dirk
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Thanks much for the compliment. I’m glad it’s of use to others. This preset is the result of 3 or 4 revisions, and it’s the best I’ve managed so far to get a natural look out of the D300 in Lightroom.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:29 am
When I click on “download”, I get a long list of numbers that is on another website-like page. How do I install this to Lightroom? (When I download Matt Kloskowski’s presets, they download to my Desktop with an icon to import.)
Thanks, John
July 24th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I will have to check that out John. For now you can right click the link and save as.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Jon - I did the save as and got it to my desktop. However when I went to User Preset, Import, it was greyed out from the list of items on my desktop.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am
PS - I was able to take the Camera Calibration numbers (related to your preset) listed in the Nikonians forum, and create a new preset using those numbers.
July 24th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I’ve updated the link to go to a ZIP file with the preset inside, which should make it simpler to download in the future.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Perfect. Thanks a million!
August 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Thank you! I have spent quite some time tweaking Lightroom myself, and your preset was an improvement of the ones I had managed myself. I changed the tone curve a little to get a bit more contrast. Nice work!
September 27th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Nice work!
Thanks!!!
Muchas gracias por su trabajo me gusta el resultado.
Saludos.