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Problems with nitrates could deep water fish worse as Californias population swells. Were growing at a pace of about a half a million a year, so were looking at a population of 50 million by somewhere mid-century, predicts Ellen Hanak of the nonprofit think tank the Public Policy Institute of California. Hanaks research focuses on how the state will meet its water needs. Hanks continues, About half of that growth is going to be in the inland areas, including San Joaquin Valley, Inland Empire, and Sacramento Valley. All places that rely heavily on groundwater. So far, regulators havent done much to force farmers and the industry to clean up nitrates. State and regional water boards almost never issue fines or shut down farms and dairies found responsible for nitrate pollution. State water regulators say nitrates are not as urgent a priority as other contaminants that cause severe health effects, like perchlorate or dry cleaning chemicals. Darrin Polhemus, head of the water quality division of the State Water Board, defends the inaction: On the scale of things we deal with, while nitrates is certainly a concern, and were managing for it, I dont rank it high up there as something that makes me stay awake at night. But thats no comfort to Ana Vargas. Knowing her well is contaminated means her family must rely on bottled water, because they cant trust one of the most basic necessities the water from their tap. Please ensure that all comments adhere to our community guidelines. We reserve the right to edit or remove comments that do not follow these guidelines. Never miss an episode of The California Report. Copyright 2011 KQED Inc. All Rights Reserved. A not insignificant part of digital photography revolves around how you process your images. I provide such an underwhelming introduction because I feel that processing is something that is necessary to digital photography, but not so important that you can ignore, or spend less time focusing on creating great straight out of camera SOOC images. If you have an image that looks great straight out of camera great light, great composition, sharp then you re going to be in a much better position when it comes time to process that image! We use Lightroom to do the majority of our processing saving retouching for Photoshop. I thought it would be useful to start an ongoing series detailing some of the steps used the achieve the before/after you see below. Hopefully in this way you ll be able to take a few tips and tricks back to your own images! So the after of this image has three main adjustments applied to it to achieve the effect. There are a few other minor tweaks: White Balance: You can see that the before SOOC image is quite cool in temperature blue cast. I used temperature to warm the image up. Finding the right temperature can be a bit tricky so you ll want to be checking before after frequently the backslash key. Vignette: This image has a really soft vignette applied, which I apply to most images. Applying a vignette helps draw your eye to the center of the image and keep your eye from falling off the image. Try to feather your vignettes well, keep the midpoint as far deep water fish the center of the deep water fish as possible, and finally make sure the effect is subtle. Some images look great with noticeable vignette, but if all of your images have a noticeable vignette it might actually distract the viewer from the subject of your image. Split toning!: In order to achieve the more filmic looking tones subtle split toning has been applied to this image. This is an area that you ll need to experiment with in order to achieve an aesthetic you find appealing. There you go! Simple steps to make a huge improvement. That s the beauty of Lightroom, it s clean, straightforward, and powerful. I have to say that I loved the tutorials RAW processing and really appreicate these blog posts.