Revealing Secret Lightroom Tricks PROs Use to FOOL You!
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In this week’s episode, we discuss the secret Lightroom editing tricks professionals use to fool you and the step by step process in which they do it. The five editing tricks covered in this video, are some of my favorite techniques and can really take a photo from good to great in just a matter of a few minutes. And, by the time you watch this video and become comfortable applying these tricks to your own photos, you'll begin seeing many use cases within your own photography moving forward. I hope you enjoy this week's video and find it both helpful and beneficial to your photo editing skill set. As always, thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.
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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.
Hi Mark, excellent content. What might be interesting in the future for folks, like me, who are trying to learn Photoshop as well, is the show these great techniques in Lightroom as you've done here and then flip over to Photoshop to show how to produce the same effect in Photoshop. It would be interesting to see the benefits of one process over the other. Thanks for taking the time to show this type of content.
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!
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.
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
I like the bright and cheery editing too.
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.
Wow - in the first 8 minutes, I've learnt more about using Lightroom effectively than I have in the last year! Thanks, awesome video.
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).
I feel like something is wrong with me, but I like the before look more. 😔
I Feel That Way A lot
Great video, Mark. All new techniques I will try when I re-re-re-edit my photos one more time 😊
Excellent, as always. Thank you Mark!
Mark, Thank you for turnng this feature on for me !
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial 🙏🏻
You are the best. Thanks for the tutorials and the tips, it has improved my photography editing skills a lot.
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 😂
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!
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!
Love the way you explain your tutorials Mark.
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
Thanks for some great ideas. Really like the radial tool for bringing out colour in sunset/sunrises.
Thanks for this tricks you shared with us and well done for the great video as all ways
Tipp 4 is Awesome! Thank you
Thank you for this! Very informative!
Thanks Denney for another nice quick tutorial.
Very informative and helpful insights and tips. Thanks for sharing!!!
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!
Great information! Thanks Mark!
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!
Thanks for this. Very helpful
Great tips and tricks thank you so much!
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!
Always enjoy your techniques.
Thanks for this Mark!!
Thanks Mark, Great video. It really helps a lot.
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!
Great video. Thanks for the tips.
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.
Awesome Mark. 👌👏🏽👏🏽
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!
Like your channel, good explanation and gain a lot of knowledge with my edit skills. Thank you
Thank u soooo much, I start using Lightroom and this helped me a lot. 🙏
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.
Hi Mark, thank you for another top quality video. Please keep up the great work. Cheers, Ivan
Another great editing video!! Will certainly give these a go in the future. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this
Beautiful!
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 for all your videos. I’ve learned so much from you!
Love hearing this - thank you!
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.
Great tips, thanks Mark 👍
Fantastic tips!
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!
Great informative video Mark, thanks as always.
Thanks for checking it out Nick!
Thanks for a great “tip” video. Making a digital image to look like a film image have some challenges, eg to get a Kodachrome or Ektachrome look. The two film types had completely different manufacturing and development processes. In Australia, the manufacturing process of these films were bit different to US manufacturing. Due the northern and southern atmospheric differences the Kelvin degree sensitivity were different.
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!
Always something new to learn from your videos.. thank you Mark.
Happy to hear this!
This is great Mark! Fire content as usual my friend :)
Great tips and ideas Mark! Thank you!
Thank ya Jim!!
Thank you Mark you have made this so simple to listen to keep the info Mark
Glad you enjoyed it Colin!
Hey Mark, I believe you got you last before & afters mixed up on the Yosemite scene. No biggy, great video!
Very nice information again thank you
Great video as always Mark!
Thanks Tommy!!
Great video !!!
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!!
love to learn from you.
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!
Great review.
Enjoyed this video... everything but that shirt.... Go Herd... 😁😁
Just here to celebrate 🍾 the Appalachian state tee!
Again...great content!
Appreciate it Danny!
Very helpful Mark, thnx.
Glad to do it!!
Great video Mark!
Many thanks Rick!!
Nice tips man
😄 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.
Superb tutorial. More please.
Thanks so much Sarah!
Nice tips. thanks!
Thanks a million!
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!
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!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this Ralph!
Great video Mark, the only thing I didn't use before is the grain tool. Might have some shots where that might be interesting for so I'll give it a try. I realy like how you show what you do on the screen in your videos. Been thinking about making some how to videos for my landscape photography channel but haven't figured the screen recording out yet. For now I'll stick to the on location videos 🤣 hopefully I can do something like this un the future to. If I even come close to your quality then I would be a happy man! Keep them up mark realy enjoying them 🙂 grt guido
Thanks so much - really appreciate the kind words!
Mark..great video! How do you make a set point in the tone curve???
Excellent video.
Thanks Keith!
Thanks for the video! Just curious if you ever play with the mid-tone setting under the color grading section or do you generally just stick to the shadows/highlights?
I seldom use it, just every once and awhile.
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.
2:53 "Rock the contrast" now that's a t-shirt, right there. lol
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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.
Awesome shirt! Go App!
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?
Please correct me if I'm wrong: but for photo #2 wouldn't the trees and top of that little mountain have the light on it too if the sun was bright enough to light the cliffs? The things I worry about trying to make beautiful images like this man has made!
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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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