Using Lightroom to make YOUR photos STAND OUT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2023
- Your style isn't just the type of photographs you take, but also how you edit them - check out my tips on creating a style in Lightroom.
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Thanks for another great and fun video! And thanks for featuring my edit :)
[Gijom] 😁
The more I watch your videos and those of your peers, and create photographs myself occasionally, the more I realise it is much more an art, than the science I thought it was! Long way from where I started off on this photo journey.
Thank you sharing my edit, I really enjoyed process it. 😊 (Palmai Zoltan)
A very kind, gentle and respectful way to "critique" other people's edits of your photographs. Well done!
Nigel thanks, it is so inspiring for me to see how you edit the photos from raw to finish.
Great demonstration of how much different editing styles create a wide variety of results from the same image. This would be a good exercise for camera clubs to do.
Love the way you invite others to play around with your images. Your responses are so respectful and kind while also inviting us to consider things we might not have thought of. You really are a wonderful teacher. Thank you.
Thanks Nigel. I find it fascinating just how much editing is done in your images. I guess I naively thought that all of your lighting was based on reality so I often get frustrated and demotivated that I never seem to find dramatic conditions for my work.
Seeing your before/after shots gives me hope.
Great work Nigel...very informative 👌
Beautiful editings, very inspiring, Nigel! One little note about "crushing the blacks", most of the times I've seen it referred to creating true blacks, while what you refer to I've always seen called "lifting the blacks".
This made me realise i defiantly don't do enough editing on my images so thanks for this i now have to learn Lightroom.
Another great video Nigel.
It was interesting to see how you would edit an image and how other people edited your image's.
Food for thought.
Excellent video again!
I think this may be one of your best "educational" videos yet!
Brilliant job!
It’s very inspiring to see all these examples of how people see the picture 👍 Thanks
Great video again!
Good advises, ánd nice to see so many different editing styles on your photo's!
Thanks again!
Fantastic tips!! Thank you ☝️
Best part of my Sundays....watching your latest video!
What a great way to show style, different edits of the same photo. Thanks, I learned a lot.
I am amazed at how much time and effort you put into editing photos and then sharing before and after versions. It shows me what is possible and provides inspiration.
What a great way to demonstrate "style", Nigel. Thank you!!
It's encouraging to see so many different good edits. Sometimes as I edit, I think, "Wow, this doesn't look anything like a Nigel." I suppose part of the reason is that it isn't one. It's a Gabe. But admittedly, the other part of the reason is that I still have a lot to learn. Thanks for the video, Nigel, and for being humble and secure enough to showcase other people's creativity as well. It makes us all better!
Oh yes, thats exactly the same for me. I was lucky enough to have 2 edits mentioned but the funny thing I was trying to do them as Nigel would - clearly I am not actually capable! I was temporarily impressed with myself that I thought I could justify a new camera until I reminded myself he was talking about my edit not one of my photographs! I love his videos and work.
Glad to be the first one today! Hope all is well. As always thanks for your wealth of knowledge and you willingness to share with everyone. Take care bud!
>glad to be the first one today
really..lol
@@doderiolarkisso4038 actually yeah, I’m in the us, been following him for years, and once and a while I can’t find myself sleeping cause of my own back issues. I’m always glad when Nigel posts on my rough nights. There is usually always something to take away from his content. And I’m glad to be the first when it happens cause I’ve enjoyed the content for years, and glad to continue seeing him following his passion, sharing the process, stories and detours when they arise. 😅👍🏼 nothing wrong with being happy (glad) to support someone. Me being glass I’m the first one is really just saying thanks for keeping me company. I look forward to next time.
Excellent (and educational) to see the interpretations of various people with the same images.
Thanks for a very interesting and inspiring video.
Thanks so much for this!
Some good ideas as always but surely style is more than what you do in post. For me it starts with the images you choose to shoot and the way you compose them. Editing is the icing on the cake.
Yep, I'd say it does. From the lens choice to the focal length to composure and when you take the shot, plus the settings used, that provides the foundation for the image. Editing is putting the finishing touches to it and finalising what look and mood you want the image to evoke in a viewer.
Thank you for sharing! I learn so much about photography and photo editing from your channel.
It’s fascinating to see the different interpretations.
That was a really interesting and informative insight into your editing. Interesting as well, to see just how varied the edits and styles were by the other photographers.
Very interesting and enjoyed the way other people see the images. Photography as you say is rather subjective and includes a lot of personal influence. No black and white takes on your sets - another interesting point. Just love your videos and you explain matters so well that it is easy to comprehend. Thank you, as always. xxx
Strong episode with useful, encouraging advice. I LOVED the contributions of other edits quite inspiring.
That was a very interesting video! I would love to see more of these in the future. Thank you so much for working so hard for us Nigel! It was very interesting to see other photographers points of view on the exact same scene.
Thank you!
Really enjoyed the video Nigel and thank you for featuring my edit of your Cornish tin mines image; it’s certainly got me thinking more about achieving a pleasing tonality during the editing process.
Thanks so much for showing my edit. I really appreciate that you liked that one. And you almost pronounced my name correctly 😁
Very interesting to see all those different styles. Every individual gets inspired in different ways with a single image and that's what makes the beauty of photography. Thank you for letting us editing some of your images from time to time. It's a very constructive exercise.
Of all the edits, I like Andy Gray's the best. I'm well familiar with his use of ICM. But introducing an ICM look to an image that lacked it really takes ingenuity!
Ah man, I missed out again on being featured again! Fantastic video as always!
Thanks for showcasing my edit on your site! I found the Tin Mines photo to be the most captivating, but the Borrowdale Valley shot was very pleasing too. Glad to see an in-depth discussion about style. Some people can get quite particular about 'finding their style', yet they don't realise style comes about as a result of practice, evolving your creative choices to experiment and learn what you do and don't like.
I enjoyed watching you think out loud. It really helps. Seeing the variety of ways to develop the same photo was eye opening. Independently, I have been desaturating greens this summer as they just seem too in your face. I also find decreasing their luminance draws attention to the colorful flowers of summer.
Thanks again for some brilliant advice and tips! Enjoy Greenland and I'm sure you will come back with some amazing images which I can't wait to view.
Really good content 😃 Personally, I love your style and it was great to see other edits of the same photo.
Thanks for showing my edit of Sennen and Cape Cornwall I certainly found it easier to do somewhere I know well rather than the woodland scene that I had never visited.
Excellent tutorial, which shows the different styles of individual photographers.
A really fascinating subject Nigel...very enlightening. It's not my intent to be that "Old Curmudgeon of Photography", but I can't help but think about the pre-digital era of photography and what "style" meant back then. When I started in the early 1980s, transparency film was the medium of choice (ignoring B&W photography) and most of us dedicated amateurs didn't have access to our own photo labs. "Style" was basically your subject, composition, exposure and film choices. Once that transparency slide came back from the lab, that was it in terms of the final image. The digital age has been a remarkable "golden age" for photographers. Although I dislike "over-photoshopping", I think one's style should only be limited to one's personal choices. BTW, the Spirit of Luskentyre book is an amazingly enjoyable book, photos and text!
My style is constantly changing aswell.
Thanks Nigel. This was a fantastic video!
Once again a really enjoyable & informative video Nigel. Thank you. I found the colour grading / mixing section particularly useful as I often struggle with the greens when processing my landscape photography. I feel it just proves that our craft is so subjective, and we shouldn't necessarily be drawn into trying to create a style similar to someone else, but develop our own. Do what you do for your own enjoyment - unless of course you run a commercial enterprise rather than it being a "hobby"
It's nice to see someone else struggles with greens in their landscapes (also in my macros)! I always seem to de-saturate them and or tweak the hue/tint in the final image.
@@williampetersen2899 I think we all go through the same or similar issues & beat ourselves up too much thinking we are not up to scratch when comparing ourselves to others. I try to work through the issue and find a method that gives consistent results. Lots of greens in an image seem to be particularly troublesome - for me anyway. My own trial & error has helped, and Nigel's approach here certainly given me some food for thought with this.
This was very informative. I struggle with getting the colors where I want them. I don’t think I have considered matching colors and tones. Also, your description of style development demystifies the subject for me. Great content!
i don't have any particular style because i'm into bird, macro, landscape, portraits.. my style is how i feel when i edit & that makes my instagram feed a mess but it is what it is :D
Thank you, more suggestions to consider and having just moved to Lightroom Classic, very timely. A local competition had a winning photograph but it was too manipulated for me and very Disney-fied, missing only a cartoon character. Great update and like the care/attention. 👍👏
Great video Nigel and a great idea to see the various edit styles
Great insights 👍
Thank Nigel, excellent video
Very helpful! Thanks!
Another really great video. I always learn so much from your examples.
Great video Nigel. It is a great experience to see how others process their photos and create a style. I am not sure what my style is yet so I should look at passed photos I have edited to identify my style and us that when taking the photos.You showed some amazing edited photos from fellow viewers.
Great video Nigel. I really enjoy your "in the field" videos but also really appreciate these videos back at the studio and working in light room. I'm trying to really focus on my skills in the editing bay these days and so getting this instruction and insight from you is super value for me. Cheers! -Dan
I love the insights into your thought process on styling. Thanks very much for sharing! It's interesting to me to see where we make the same choices, but also where we make different choices. 🔥👩🚒📸
A brilliant video once again, thank you Nigel. I love seeing how different people have produced such a variety of edits, from the same starting point. It proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and how we all perceive it differently. All editions were so good. Lovely to compare with your original unedited file to see the progress from start to finish - and by taking time, editing, how different even your own edits turned out! Loved it all.
Thanks for sharing
I love this part of your videos - discovering style as you go; very creative. Do you every begin with "white balance" (workflow) ?
James's photographs look like Portra 400
This video got me motivated to get some kind of photo editing app, can you recommend any one? Photoshop sounds very difficult, also I haven’t got a computer only iPad and I’m not that interested in photo editing, my goal is to enhance rather than change the photo. Think that in this video you show a really beautiful way of editing and I love the thought that photography is art, and depending on how artsy I feel my photos can express that. Thank you for the education!
Thank you for sharing this information. After going through a stroke I have been relearning everything when it comes to photography. Your videos have helped me get back up to speed. Once again thank you.
I like it , simple. I don’t like over editing.
I love your photography. Have you ever considered using ACDSee. Would love to hear your thoughts on ACDSee..
Interesting video, though I think style starts from the moment you 'see' the location and start making your choices about how to shoot it. Very interesting to see your editing process. Do you have a checklist, written or mental, that you follow, e.g. Exposure then White Balance then Crop and so on?
Do you do all your edits on this tablet or do you use a specialist monitor like a 10 bit one ?
What's the difference between an inverted radial mask with lowered exposure and a vignette?
You do that to the greens because de Nikon Colors?
Can you tell me what the Tablet is that you are using?
I question whether a 'style' is created from what happens after a photograph is taken. The genuinely exceptional photographs throughout time were captured at the moment, not after the fact, and that a repeated ability to communicate in a particular way. For me, a style is captured in the camera versus enhancing it for photo runways such as IG, YT, FB, etc. Devoting an entire video to show how to stylize a photo doesn't create style, it simply increases the use of post-editing tools while de-emphasizing the importance of image capture.
Nigel kept referring to crushed blacks but they were lifted blacks to me. Am I missing something ?
Me too - I've always understood crushed blacks to mean making sure there IS a true black in the image... I usually do this, but I liked the idea of lifting the blacks, as it helps Nigel's style, and I'm a big fan of it!
I think he just means crushing blacks as in stamping them out and lifting them as you said. You are not missing something although I think I am as I always try to emulate his work but fail!
If you have a style, does it mean it always has to be similar tones? When I look at people's Instagram, many have similar tones in their photos. My photos are kind of all over the place, partly because I'm a student and still learning and developing my eye, but also, I think the photo kind of dictates what the style is. So I don't know. I'd like to have a style, but I also think it might get kind of static and sometimes I'd be going against what certain photos feel like.
Spencer, that's an interesting question.
Take my words with a grain of salt as it is only my opinion, but I think Nigel demonstrates that 'style' does not necessarily mean similar tones or hues or a specific color palette in all your images, but rather more or less subtle adjustments to tonal distribution depending on subject (e.g. he seems to do similar things to his sky in a landscape image) and specific handling of specific colors which actually exist in the image (e.g. muting greens).
Whenever I wanted to try to 'style' my images in the sense of applying similar tones/hues to a series of different images, I always stopped doing so quickly because I just love the colors of nature and my photographed subjects sooo much that I always felt to destroy that beauty by 'styling' images.
So, I prefer bringing out/emphasizing what I like and love in each image (or better: in the real life subject). So I guess I am more like you than a typical Instagram-er.
This having said, I enjoy looking at other people's more extreme adjustments, and I think a style which can easily be recognized as such can have great appeal when looking at a series of images rather than at one image alone.
And nowadays it is almost mandatory that you 'style' your photos if you want to be recognized or even noticed by others.
Nigels images are great, his style is subtle e.g. he doesn't swap green with magenta or something alike, that's why I enjoy his images and bought a photobook, they are great. On the flip side his style is not as easily recognizable as more extreme styles from others.
The good thing is you can try out so many things as you are (probably) working with raw images and can create so many versions, one set of the same images more realistic and one set more color-'styled', there is no right or wrong.
Ansel Adams 'edited' (printed) his images differently throughout his life. Though his raw files were negatives, his prints (which he 'edited' a lot in the darkroom) of some of the identical negatives have been less contrasty in his beginning and more contrasty later in his life. His 'style' changed? :-)
But I also have to agree with others here who mention that a photographer's style does not start in front of the computer, but in the field. Just one example, if you capture your subject e.g. a tree or rock with a lot of bokeh or smooth transition into blurred background then this is fundamentally different to an 'all must be in focus' approach aka focus stacking. No right or wrong here either, just a different style, in case you always do it that or the other way. Which is kind of boring imo.
Botton line: Style can be nice, but also can be boring. Nigel even showed a photographer who has changed his/her (quite strong) style, maybe this is both, nice and interesting.
Style? Style? 😵💫😵💫 I'm lucky to get a decent subject and light at the moment?! 🤪🤪Lol
My style is blurry and underexposed. Wait, that's not style, that's reality. My style tends to be more dynamic like Gavin Hardcastle aka fototripper. The thing I enjoy about my local photography club is seeing the styles the others have.
Just wondered if you're aware of the faces you pull when doing these videos, just relax man, the content is cool!
Editing is fun but I find it very sad that a person can’t really find photos online or anywhere that TRULY looks like what it did in person as far as color etc. I can’t wait until better cameras come out with very accurate color where we can quit needing to edit so much. 😫
Guillaume=Gillam or Gwillam. It's where the name William comes from
15:11 really enjoying the lightroom natter then you promote a Fareo island book and I turned off. Enough said, sorry Nigel.
I don’t think I have a style yet, I’m still learning Lightroom and at present I’m lost somewhere in there. It will come at some point but most importantly I just love getting out taking the images. Great video as always.