This picture, incidentally, is of the heavy iron rack on our porch, thrift store price included.

Since I started up Lightroom a few days ago (it's been a while), I've been playing a bit with the "clarity" slider. Clarity is basically a local contrast enhancement, like a large-radius USM or the effect that gets applied to HDR pictures to punch them up.

I see it used tactfully a lot, and applied way too heavily even more. In this, it's a lot like sharpening, saturation, or any other control in an image editing program.

So anyway, I've been sliding it to the left. Making the images less punchy and flatter. Used modestly, it is kind of dreamy. I don't know if I'll find a more meaningful use for it.