>>3112850Glad you like it. Was surprisingly easy to work with. White balance seems fine, which is the main thing.
I can't really recommend anything in particular, especially in the context of LR as I somewhat randomly went down the C1 route and have only looked at a couple of their video tutorials BUT here's what I think will translate, as it's a workflow thing that totally changed my results and finally let me achieve some consistency...relatively speaking.
I always start with a quick white balance check and then deep into the colours (crop and straighten before if I've really messed up the framing). C1 makes this really easy in terms of tinting shadows, midtones and highlights, but I believe LR can achieve the same results just in a different way. This step (done right, I still mess up sometimes...generally sit on an image for a bit and then see how it looks 24 hours or so after the first edit) will let you combine tints with the colours in the scene to generate contrast without clipping the shadows and highlights. Depending on the way your cam balanced RGB you can recover half your highlights this way before you go anywhere near the highlight slider itself, and generate warm/cold/aesthetic combinations to taste. If I really understood colour theory I could probably explain this much better, but check out Johannes Itten as a starting point. Also every time you get a result you like save the settings as a preset.
After I've done enough global adjustments to colours I go to curves and religiously drop midtones a little (curves are just something you need to experiment a bit with - again, save your settings), then look at exposure warnings and just try and calibrate the overall scene brightness. Then I'll do some masking (or just chuck a vignette on it if I can get away with it) if I've still got selective exposure issues, then maybe back to looking at specific colours and adjusting those (especially reds & yellows, just because).
Basically it's a massive pita.