I'm generally in agreement with your editing choices. But I prefer the before version of the first example (the starburst shot) with the stronger contrast.
Totally agree! I think the edited version ended up looking bland to me - on the fence with the second picture too... :/ Just goes to show how different our preferences are :P
social medias are fascinating... imagine doing the same in real life. walking by a butcher and telling hin: your meat notmally looks delicious, but I don't like that pork leg 😅
I've heard you say often "you'll get more keepers" In your mind what's a keeper? I'm 76 yrs old and I've had cameras starting off with a Kodak twin reflex in the 1950's. Having said that is a keeper image one you can sell, enjoy yourself,or get compliments and positive feedback.
The second picture was so great as it was with the darker details on the mountains with a fading sunburnt sky. The edit blows out all the nice color of the sky and makes a pretty big white ring aswell as taking away the majestics of the mountains. Hmm if this is what people are doing to "fool" me, they gotta get better at fooling.
I am at the point when I want to apply all of these tricks to my photos but didn’t even know where to start till now! Thank you so much for making this video!
What a great video! Your switching between before & after views is especially helpful. That's something that I wish other folks would do more often in their own Lightroom tutorials. Keep up the good work, and thank you!
uhhhh im just at trick #2 and i just tested that out and boom what a difference. thank you so much alredy. definitely gonna finish to see what else u got there :) much love from Germany
Thank you so much Mark. Really interesting and very practical video. Learned a lot. Love your very clear delivery and excellent explanations, and your charisma. Pace of video is great
Mark does it again! Great video as always! I'm definitely going to have to try out the noise idea. I greatly appreciate you doing these awesome videos for us all. You are the man!
I've been using that light glow effect for a while, with a variation. Adding haze and de-texture tends to over-expose the area to my liking and also washes out the color. So within that radial filter, I slightly reduce exposure and increase saturation. Just my preference.
I live at the beach and take a lot of sunset shots. I've always struggled with editing the sun. These look really great and I'm definitely going to go back through some old shots and give some of these techniques a try.
Hi, Mark. I love your channel and learn a lot from your tutorials. Thank you for not playing music while you teach. I was curious about the thumbnail image for this video. I am certain that is the Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon. However, you never covered it in your video. I've been there several times and have images to edit.
Thank you for this Mark, I always felt that some of my images were just lacking ‘something’ I really enjoy your videos especially the Lightroom editing ones Andy
Thanks for collecting all of these techniques in one video. I use most of these ideas, picked up one at a time from multiple videos. I appreciate you taking the time to consolidate these into a single video.
Thank you for continuing to give us videos with editing tips. You show just enough without overwhelming us viewers….I have watched other photographers videos and they talk so fast and move thru the steps so fast that they lose me half way thru the video and I turn it off. I would appreciate tips for editing daytime pics too as I don’t often get to take sunrise and sunsets. Thanks for your help.
Once again another great video. Love your tee shirt in the video..lol. I will be in Boone, Banner Elk soon. What are your favorite spots around there? I have been visiting those areas for over 30 years.
😄 I think dyslexia crept into Mark's reality while showing the before and after samples of the third trick. 😄 I love this channel, though. Mark offers great tips with a warm attitude.
Thank you for the very informative video. I will definitely be using these techniques in my future edits and will go back through some of my previous images to use them there as well.
Thank you, the first tip I have tried a few times but never got it right, so I went back to a recent image and redid the radial gradient over the setting sun and it made the image vastly better and it was one of my best picks in a while. Thanks agian.
Thanks, Mark, for another informative video. I also find that it's effective to raise the black slider for landscapes, as you have mentioned this before. The other techniques will be very useful to me, especially the side lighting tip and the Golden Hour POP. Very clearly explained. Great video.
Mark, I like everything you do on your channel. (OK, don't care for ICM but that's my problem.) But I really enjoy your help in processing images in Lightroom. Thanks for being so open. I'm so glad I'm a subscriber.
Glad i grew up and got my degree in photography in the film days. I believe those who went this route understand the importance of setting up your shot. F stop, aperture, depth of field and lighting all need to be correct. Today, one shoots hundreds of images in hopes of the one good image. No concept of what is taking place because in the back of their mind they know they can correct everything to include sharpening in some post production software. Don’t get me wrong, i use PS. But when you shoot with film, it costs money when you fail to incorporate the basics.
I get so many great tips from your videos Mark. And I’ve been doing scenic and landscape photography non stop for 45 years! I’ve already gone back and applied your techniques in this video to some of my sunsets and they’ve made a great improvement.
Mark, I notice that your studio environment has shuttered windows and a purplish light. Could you do a future video on setting up a photo editing environment?
I was looking forward to your editting of the Lighthouse as shown on the thumb nail of the TH-cam. I have a few shots that could potentially benefit but it wasn't there?
Mark, thank you so much for all your straight to the point and thoughtful videos. I am picking through your catalog everyday one by one to absorb the info like a sponge. Do you have a tutorial available on how to capture a sunset image like this? I don’t think I found one. Basically I’m wondering what your technique is for exposing the foreground and the sky properly. Is it bracketing/HDR? Is it a glass graduated ND filter in front of the lens? Thank you!
That´s a point that bothers me the most when I´m watching all kind of photography tutorials on youtube. Most of the time I have the impression that the "starting" material that is used to show a specific editing technique is finally edited and what´s left is only the cherry on the cake. So the tip is not quiet useful if you still struggle to do the work to get the "starting" material.
Thanks for making this video. I was frustrated trying to improve a photo I was working on. Using normal adjustments to exposure brought up parts of the photo but killed other parts. Showing how to isolate parts of the photo and make the adjustments only to the selected area gave me the photo I was looking for and struggling to achieve. I now have my next comp entry for my local photographic club. Seems strange that light room give you an oval to select the areas you want to adjust. Thought they might have a drawing tool.....,.or is that something else only the pros know about
Another great video, Mark! As always, very interesting ideas, and for me, as beginner in editing/post-processing (and I love it more and more), I always found in your video moments like "ahaaa! this is how is done....". I loved specially your first examples, with golden hour photos, du the fact that I have some recently taken on a beautiful islands, and now I have great ideas to try again to edit it, in a different way that I did it 😀 Thanks, Mark!
I love your natural admission that you sometimes alter the images from what you see to transform them into new scenes by applying these edits. I guess our eyes tend to see these things in live settings, but a photograph seldom captures those nuances. By altering the photo to match more what your eyes remember is a great tool when used sparingly as you showed in these examples.
Mr.Mark I have to say you are a great teacher but as one of your fellow photographers your given away a lot of those photographers secrets man 😂 lol , another great share from you
Mark, was the first sun shot HDR merge or something to begin with? When I take a sunset/sunrise shots, it will be more like what you were showing after the editing.
Thanks for video. One question. While working in the curve panel, you dropped several points on the diagonal line, but moved only the bottom two in the shadows area. Did your dropped points do anything to change the image, in the midtones or the highlights, since they were not moved?
Good catch! I don't believe they do anything if you just set the anchor point. They stay where they are until you move them. In my mind he did that as him normal process but then only showed us what he was doing in terms of the blacks. He probably would change those mid tones doing more editing work later.
Glad to do it Charlie! The anchor points in the mid tones and highlights locked the curve in place and didn’t allow the mid tones and highlights to be impacted when I adjusted the shadows
Great video Mark! Had a question, instead of adding grain in post, what about just using a higher ISO like 800 or 1600? Would that have the same affect?
I'm generally in agreement with your editing choices. But I prefer the before version of the first example (the starburst shot) with the stronger contrast.
ditto
Totally agree! I think the edited version ended up looking bland to me - on the fence with the second picture too... :/ Just goes to show how different our preferences are :P
+1
social medias are fascinating... imagine doing the same in real life. walking by a butcher and telling hin: your meat notmally looks delicious, but I don't like that pork leg 😅
Yeah, that’s what I thought as well.
Great video. I was really looking forward to seeing how you dealt with the lighthouse in the preview thumbnail………but there was no lighthouse?
I've heard you say often "you'll get more keepers" In your mind what's a keeper? I'm 76 yrs old and I've had cameras starting off with a Kodak twin reflex in the 1950's. Having said that is a keeper image one you can sell, enjoy yourself,or get compliments and positive feedback.
Great information! Thanks Mark!
Love the way you explain your tutorials Mark.
This is great Mark! Fire content as usual my friend :)
I like the bright and cheery editing too.
Excellent, as always. Thank you Mark!
Thanks Denney for another nice quick tutorial.
Thank you for this! Very informative!
Thanks for this tricks you shared with us and well done for the great video as all ways
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this Ralph!
Very informative and helpful insights and tips. Thanks for sharing!!!
The second picture was so great as it was with the darker details on the mountains with a fading sunburnt sky. The edit blows out all the nice color of the sky and makes a pretty big white ring aswell as taking away the majestics of the mountains. Hmm if this is what people are doing to "fool" me, they gotta get better at fooling.
Thank you, Mark! Superhelpful (though I was admittedly disappointed hoping to see those lighthouses).
You are the best. Thanks for the tutorials and the tips, it has improved my photography editing skills a lot.
Awesome Mark. 👌👏🏽👏🏽
Hi Mark, thank you for another top quality video. Please keep up the great work. Cheers, Ivan
Mark, Thank you for turnng this feature on for me !
I am at the point when I want to apply all of these tricks to my photos but didn’t even know where to start till now! Thank you so much for making this video!
This is great to hear - thank you!
Wow - in the first 8 minutes, I've learnt more about using Lightroom effectively than I have in the last year! Thanks, awesome video.
Like your channel, good explanation and gain a lot of knowledge with my edit skills. Thank you
Thanks Mark, Great video. It really helps a lot.
Great tips and tricks thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial 🙏🏻
Great video. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for this. Very helpful
Thanks for this Mark!!
What a great video! Your switching between before & after views is especially helpful. That's something that I wish other folks would do more often in their own Lightroom tutorials. Keep up the good work, and thank you!
uhhhh im just at trick #2 and i just tested that out and boom what a difference. thank you so much alredy. definitely gonna finish to see what else u got there :) much love from Germany
Great tips, thanks Mark 👍
Always something new to learn from your videos.. thank you Mark.
Happy to hear this!
Tipp 4 is Awesome! Thank you
Thank you Mark you have made this so simple to listen to keep the info Mark
Glad you enjoyed it Colin!
Thank you so much Mark. Really interesting and very practical video. Learned a lot. Love your very clear delivery and excellent explanations, and your charisma. Pace of video is great
Thank u soooo much, I start using Lightroom and this helped me a lot. 🙏
Great informative video Mark, thanks as always.
Thanks for checking it out Nick!
Very nice information again thank you
Great tips Mark! I love how you do so much of the edit in Lightroom. Thanks for all the work!
Thanks so much for watching Michael!
Great video as always Mark!
Thanks Tommy!!
Mark does it again! Great video as always! I'm definitely going to have to try out the noise idea. I greatly appreciate you doing these awesome videos for us all. You are the man!
This is great to hear - thank ya!!
I like getting things right in camera... So I just jack the ISO up for noise 😂
Fantastic tips!
Another great editing video!! Will certainly give these a go in the future. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tips and ideas Mark! Thank you!
Thank ya Jim!!
Always enjoy your techniques.
Thanks! Your videos are always informative. It is nice to know how you use photo editing techniques. It has been a great help to me.
This is great to hear Mike - thank you!
I've been using that light glow effect for a while, with a variation. Adding haze and de-texture tends to over-expose the area to my liking and also washes out the color. So within that radial filter, I slightly reduce exposure and increase saturation. Just my preference.
Great review.
Beautiful!
I live at the beach and take a lot of sunset shots. I've always struggled with editing the sun. These look really great and I'm definitely going to go back through some old shots and give some of these techniques a try.
Great video, Mark. All new techniques I will try when I re-re-re-edit my photos one more time 😊
Hi, Mark. I love your channel and learn a lot from your tutorials. Thank you for not playing music while you teach. I was curious about the thumbnail image for this video. I am certain that is the Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon. However, you never covered it in your video. I've been there several times and have images to edit.
Once again, awesome video this week. Love your editing videos and so many great editing tools to add to my bag.
Thanks so much man!
Enjoyed this video... everything but that shirt.... Go Herd... 😁😁
Thanks for some great ideas. Really like the radial tool for bringing out colour in sunset/sunrises.
Great video Mark!
Many thanks Rick!!
Hey Mark, I believe you got you last before & afters mixed up on the Yosemite scene. No biggy, great video!
Thank you for this Mark, I always felt that some of my images were just lacking ‘something’
I really enjoy your videos especially the Lightroom editing ones
Andy
Thanks for collecting all of these techniques in one video. I use most of these ideas, picked up one at a time from multiple videos. I appreciate you taking the time to consolidate these into a single video.
Thanks a million for checking out the video Doug!
Thank you for continuing to give us videos with editing tips. You show just enough without overwhelming us viewers….I have watched other photographers videos and they talk so fast and move thru the steps so fast that they lose me half way thru the video and I turn it off. I would appreciate tips for editing daytime pics too as I don’t often get to take sunrise and sunsets. Thanks for your help.
Thank you for all your videos. I’ve learned so much from you!
Love hearing this - thank you!
Great video !!!
Once again another great video. Love your tee shirt in the video..lol. I will be in Boone, Banner Elk soon. What are your favorite spots around there? I have been visiting those areas for over 30 years.
Thanks Billy! I I’ve wandering all along the Blue Ridge Parkway in that area!
Wow. I knew some of this but you take it to another level. The calibration tool is amazing. Thanks for these tips.
Great to hear it was helpful Brian!
😄 I think dyslexia crept into Mark's reality while showing the before and after samples of the third trick. 😄 I love this channel, though. Mark offers great tips with a warm attitude.
Thank you for the very informative video. I will definitely be using these techniques in my future edits and will go back through some of my previous images to use them there as well.
Thanks for checking it out!
Thank you, the first tip I have tried a few times but never got it right, so I went back to a recent image and redid the radial gradient over the setting sun and it made the image vastly better and it was one of my best picks in a while. Thanks agian.
Love hearing this Dave!
Really love your videos. Don't know what you did in the corporate world but you really have the ability to draw me in. Great video.
Thanks so much Ken!!
Thank you for this
Very helpful Mark, thnx.
Glad to do it!!
Again...great content!
Appreciate it Danny!
I feel like something is wrong with me, but I like the before look more. 😔
I Feel That Way A lot
I was thinking the exact same thing. Why on earth is he screwing with a perfectly good exposure?! 😂
Nice tips man
Thanks, Mark, for another informative video. I also find that it's effective to raise the black slider for landscapes, as you have mentioned this before. The other techniques will be very useful to me, especially the side lighting tip and the Golden Hour POP. Very clearly explained. Great video.
Thanks for watching Michael!
Mark, I like everything you do on your channel. (OK, don't care for ICM but that's my problem.) But I really enjoy your help in processing images in Lightroom. Thanks for being so open. I'm so glad I'm a subscriber.
Thank you Gary! I'm glad you're a subscriber as well!
Glad i grew up and got my degree in photography in the film days. I believe those who went this route understand the importance of setting up your shot. F stop, aperture, depth of field and lighting all need to be correct. Today, one shoots hundreds of images in hopes of the one good image. No concept of what is taking place because in the back of their mind they know they can correct everything to include sharpening in some post production software. Don’t get me wrong, i use PS. But when you shoot with film, it costs money when you fail to incorporate the basics.
Superb tutorial. More please.
Thanks so much Sarah!
I get so many great tips from your videos Mark. And I’ve been doing scenic and landscape photography non stop for 45 years! I’ve already gone back and applied your techniques in this video to some of my sunsets and they’ve made a great improvement.
love to learn from you.
Excellent video.
Thanks Keith!
Mark..great video! How do you make a set point in the tone curve???
Mark, I notice that your studio environment has shuttered windows and a purplish light. Could you do a future video on setting up a photo editing environment?
I was looking forward to your editting of the Lighthouse as shown on the thumb nail of the TH-cam. I have a few shots that could potentially benefit but it wasn't there?
... i like the before better, but either way, great edditing tips'n'tools. so much thanks!
Mark, thank you so much for all your straight to the point and thoughtful videos. I am picking through your catalog everyday one by one to absorb the info like a sponge. Do you have a tutorial available on how to capture a sunset image like this? I don’t think I found one. Basically I’m wondering what your technique is for exposing the foreground and the sky properly. Is it bracketing/HDR? Is it a glass graduated ND filter in front of the lens? Thank you!
That´s a point that bothers me the most when I´m watching all kind of photography tutorials on youtube. Most of the time I have the impression that the "starting" material that is used to show a specific editing technique is finally edited and what´s left is only the cherry on the cake. So the tip is not quiet useful if you still struggle to do the work to get the "starting" material.
Nice tips. thanks!
Thanks a million!
Thanks for making this video. I was frustrated trying to improve a photo I was working on. Using normal adjustments to exposure brought up parts of the photo but killed other parts. Showing how to isolate parts of the photo and make the adjustments only to the selected area gave me the photo I was looking for and struggling to achieve. I now have my next comp entry for my local photographic club. Seems strange that light room give you an oval to select the areas you want to adjust. Thought they might have a drawing tool.....,.or is that something else only the pros know about
Just here to celebrate 🍾 the Appalachian state tee!
I find that the grain slder also improves perceived sharpness
2:53 "Rock the contrast" now that's a t-shirt, right there. lol
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Another great video, Mark! As always, very interesting ideas, and for me, as beginner in editing/post-processing (and I love it more and more), I always found in your video moments like "ahaaa! this is how is done....".
I loved specially your first examples, with golden hour photos, du the fact that I have some recently taken on a beautiful islands, and now I have great ideas to try again to edit it, in a different way that I did it 😀
Thanks, Mark!
So glad to hear the video was helpful!
I love your natural admission that you sometimes alter the images from what you see to transform them into new scenes by applying these edits. I guess our eyes tend to see these things in live settings, but a photograph seldom captures those nuances. By altering the photo to match more what your eyes remember is a great tool when used sparingly as you showed in these examples.
I've seen a lot of pros saying "this is straight out of camera," and I can tell they are lying about it. Just own the fact that you make edits too.
Once you make the edit with the radial gradient, how do you apply the change? When I click on the mask button to exit masks, my change goes away.
Mr.Mark I have to say you are a great teacher but as one of your fellow photographers your given away a lot of those photographers secrets man 😂 lol , another great share from you
🤣🤣🤣
Awesome shirt! Go App!
Hey mark great video. Im new to LR and wanted to know if they replaced split toning? thanks
They did - it’s now called Color Grading
Mark, was the first sun shot HDR merge or something to begin with? When I take a sunset/sunrise shots, it will be more like what you were showing after the editing.
What I find interesting is when the obvious shadow area shows a sun reflection, my interest in the photo is done.
Thanks for video. One question. While working in the curve panel, you dropped several points on the diagonal line, but moved only the bottom two in the shadows area. Did your dropped points do anything to change the image, in the midtones or the highlights, since they were not moved?
Good catch! I don't believe they do anything if you just set the anchor point. They stay where they are until you move them. In my mind he did that as him normal process but then only showed us what he was doing in terms of the blacks. He probably would change those mid tones doing more editing work later.
Glad to do it Charlie! The anchor points in the mid tones and highlights locked the curve in place and didn’t allow the mid tones and highlights to be impacted when I adjusted the shadows
Great video Mark! Had a question, instead of adding grain in post, what about just using a higher ISO like 800 or 1600? Would that have the same affect?
Thanks Jerry! Although the look of grain and noise are different it could add a rough look to your photo as well
@@MarkDenneyPhoto ahhh that makes sense
@@MarkDenneyPhoto will be interesting to see comparisons of high iso photo vs Lightroom noise. May be u can make video for this