Master Low Light Sunset Cityscape Photography + Color Adjustments in Lightroom (Brooklyn Bridge)
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Low Light Cityscape Photography featuring @JasonVong
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:43 Setup For Composition (Tripod)
02:38 Setup For Composition (Hand-Held)
03:50 Alternative Affordable Versatile Lenses!
06:04 Lightroom Classic
06:33 Editing Begins (Profiles)
06:50 HSL/Color Mixer
08:36 Color Grading
09:56 NEW Adobe Presets Available (Closing)
Professor Hines takes you through his process for photographing Low Light Cityscapes, from this on location session on The Brooklyn Bridge with Jason Vong and Vivienne Lee and utilizing a tripod and hand-held low light photography. Also learn his process for editing cityscape images in this Color Adjustment focused tutorial, utilizing the color tools of Adobe Lightroom.
Kenneth Hines, Jr | @professorhines
Multi-discipline Photographer, Educator, Host
Jason Vong | @jasonvmedia
Cinematographer
Vivienne | @hellovivienne
Project Manager
FYI: The EXIF on the last two images are incorrect in the video and the correct EXIF is below (sorry).
BOTH vertical images: ZEISS Loxia 21mm, ISO 1000, f/9, 0.3 seconds.
You make such great videos. I like that you show us how you shoot and how you process those photos. I learned a lot from you. And your photos are beautiful.
Thanks so much for enjoying the new format! 🥰
Wow, amazing tips from one of the best photography educators on TH-cam. This is infield learning right here. Not many do this. Keep it up Professor Hines. 🙏
Very kind, thank you so much! 🥹 Delighted for the comments to my new format for TH-cam! 😊
Awesome tutorial as always!
Thank you so much and thanks for the Thanks Donation as well! Appreciate your support of my content! ❤️
Great video, enjoy watching your content
Much appreciated 😊
New here, and holy i love your Content! Thanks for all the Inspiration and Tutorials! Keep up the good work and thanks again
That’s very kind, thank you so much 🥹
Yess! Amazing content.
Thanks so much! 🥰
Love your work!
Thank you! ✨
Awesome tutorial, thank you!
Thank you kindly ✨
Thanks for the great video professor 🖖🏾✊🏾🇺🇸
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amazing photo
Thank you! Cheers!
Very informative
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Love videos like this one. They expand my horizon about what's possible in photography. I learned something today and that's great! But Kenneth, the Zeiss hat and sweater made me wonder: are you going to get a Zeiss tattoo at some point? :-D
Thanks so much! 😊
I always said if I did consider getting a tattoo it would be of a ZEISS internal lens design. 🥰
Thank u so much! I was in that very spot last April but unfortunately it was foggy and the whole image turned flat! Will be back again on August 2nd and will try to follow this process and hopefully will get better results that the first time.
Could perhaps make for a nice black and white image?
@@professorhineschoice Some images yes, others no! I need colorful shots with blue skies backgrounds like this one as well. Will try to get the max out of this trip this time
Great video, I've been learning a lot from you since discovering you last week. How would you go about focusing for an image like this? I have a Sony A7iv with the new Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 G2. Would I just choose a distant building and have it focus there?
Correct! This This works even more if you choose to use an aperture of a wider value. If you're using a narrower value then your focus will be sharp typically across the frame, but in the case of this exact image I'm focused on the buildings. I don't mind if there's a bit of fall off as you come closer to the camera, but I the focus are the buildings and bridge towers so I want all of that in focus more than anything. Hope this helps!
@@professorhineschoice It does help, thank you very much for the detailed reply. I've been trying to learn lightroom by watching you edit, I really like your style of editing, particularly the London subway you posted. Haven't managed to replicate it yet but I'm slowly figuring out what some of the sliders do, if not all thanks to you. Have a great weekend!
You can visit my Lightroom profile: lightroom.adobe.com/u/kennethhines that has interactive tutorials, which give more details from what the TH-cam tutorials give. Many of the images from my videos are featured here and will be more descriptive in information.
Hope you have a great weekend as well!
Thanks Prop, do you have a polaroid filter on the Lens ?
Nope, no filters are attached here.
Great video! I guess I'll have to find a separate video to see how you did the tone curve. This picture really stood out on your instagram, so I had to come see how you made it :D
P.S. The shadow selection seems to have failed you when it comes to the cables of the bridge - the tiny gaps between the metal beams and the ropes are lighter than the surrounding sky should be in those areas. I wish I had a simple solution to that problem, but it's something I struggle with in my own edits as well.
Over time the masking will improve hopefully, for detailed selections like that! 😊
With these distanses would not everything still be in focus with lower f stop? and then can use faster shutterspeed in handheld? maybe not?
Hi Hoff,
In this instance it wouldn’t, because there’s a lot of foreground subjects in the scene, therefore the beams and pedestrian path would be blurred if you were to focus on the buildings. To mitigate that you could focus more in the center however. Depending on the effects one may want then using a wider aperture isn’t a bad thing to do either! 😊 There’s no wrong way, more on what kind of results you’d want.
@@professorhineschoice got it :) thanks for replying!
What is the best time to go to Brooklyn Bridge to avoid the tourists and get a shot like this?
Go prior to sunrise. Here's an earlier video where I was there for sunrise and not sunset like this video: th-cam.com/video/_fefO3LD-Y4/w-d-xo.html This was prior to the removable of the bike lanes on the bridge, so you have even better opportunity to photograph the bridge now. An image without people is only achievable for sunrise. Sunsets you'll never get that. I think the only time that may have been possible is when the pandemic first began and the lockdowns were pretty strict!
The unedited raw files looked much better than the edited files
As good photography should be. My channel is for teaching purposes and as a Lightroom instructor the editing is for that purpose and not for fixing any of my images. 😊
@@professorhineschoice As a good photographer, you make the right settings in camera. Then the photos don't need to be edited in Lightroom. If I make small changes, I do that with Nikon NX Studio or sometimes in Photoshop. I don't even have LR on my MacBookPro
That’s essentially the same reply to my original response.
If you’re photographing in RAW then the images have to be processed through Lightroom or any program of one’s choosing. For JPEG then that’s going to be important 100% of the time. RAW is more forgiving but everyone should strive to obtain the best image possible in the camera.
@@greeceinfocus dude \!!/
I thought the accepted wisdom was that you should switch off stabilisation functions such as Steadyshot when you put the camera on a tripod?
Hi Jeff,
Yes, you’re absolutely correct! The reason I enabled it here is because the bridge is vibrating due to the car traffic and foot traffic on the bridge. Since the pedestrian bridge is composed of wooden planks the vibration is more significant as well. To compensate for that IBIS is enabled so that the vibrations affect the camera during the exposure at a minimal rate.
Its really tough to have ppl watch and critique you as a youtuber as you edit haha >_
Indeed it is!
You learn to ignore it over time however lol.
Nice video. I suggest not to desaturate the blue as it complements orange
I don't like harsh blue in my images like this. For printing it prints better this way as well.
@@professorhineschoice I am actually not referring to harsh blue but not desaturating it. At the end of the day it is your image and you display what you feel and I respect that. On another note, I’ve been reading that when you put your camera that has IBIS on a tripod, it is advised to switch off the IBIS so the camera doesn’t introduce any shake but I saw you doing otherwise.. Any evidence of that in your photos?
IBIS is enabled because I'm on a moving bridge and not a solid surface.