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In this week’s episode, we discuss how you can go from beginner to pro with Lightroom in this one simple video. I'm currently in Menorca Spain teaching at an event and wanted to walk you through the edit of an image from the first location I took my group to. This specific photo edit is a great teaching example as I used radial filters in Lightroom to help enhance and shape the subtle light that was occurring from the rising sun. Light or lack there of is one of the things that can make or break your photograph and being able to shape and direct subtle light that is contained within your image is an incredibly useful skill to have, and in this video my goal is to help you do just that! I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.
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⭐️QUICK QUESTION: Do you use more than one program to edit your photos?
Hi Mark, i've had the free edition of the Nik collection lurking in my computer for quite some time now and completely forgot about it until recently when a youtuber made a video on Color Efex Pro 4. I actually have never used it preferring Silver Efex Pro 2 (B&W) so dusted it off and have been trying it out and it's amazing software, really very very good indeed. Not a pro like yourself, just a keen amateur and i've been getting some great results. On a different note, been saving up for a new camera as my 8 year old D7100 has been taking a battering but instead splashed out on a calibrated BenQ monitor and wow, the difference is chalk and cheese between what i was using. I would recommend any newbie to look at their monitor before splashing out on new camera as i've realised that's where i was lacking. Going to stick with my faithful D7100 as i'm more than happy with it's output plus i don't have much spare cash! Thanks Mark sorry for my story. All the best mate and great tutorials.
No, one is confusing enough. 🙄
I always start out with LR and finish with PS. On occasion I’ll use Topaz Studio 2. I still have Luminar 3 but I rarely use it.
DXO Pure Raw, LR, Affinity Photo. Occasionally Luminar Neo.
Mostly lightroom but also photoshop. The two just work well together.
Hi Mark! It was such a pleasure working with you at the Menorca PhotoPills 2023 Camp.
That Orton Effect might be a good action to create in PS.
I am learning so much from you! I’m just an advanced beginner in editing so I appreciate the way you explain things :)
Love to hear this - thanks Pam!
Thanks Mark, that’s the simplest way of doing an Orton Effect I’ve come across!
Loved the way you taught the spilling of light at the horizon 👌 also, the fact u taught how we see the foreground with more clarity than background 🙌 thank u for the tutorial 👍
At 28k and counting perhaps not every landscape photographer yet but certainly a substantial fraction. I’m glad I tuned in, this is a truly informative tutorial. Coincidentally, yesterday I returned to work on post processing backlog from our workshop last October on the Oregon Coast. Now I will return to the task with additional strategies to experiment with. Thanks!
Goosebumps - looks so cool! Thanks for sharing!
This and all your other tutorials are extremely helpful. Thank you so much.
Watching your videos makes me realize I need more landscape photography! Thanks for the inspiration and sharing!
Thanks Tim!
I just love your videos; amazing techniques explained in a down-to-earth human way. So refreshing! I learn so much from you. Thank you!!!
Thanks for another stellar tutorial, Mark !! I just hope this is the start of a series for your style of teaching makes learning all these techniques easy and enjoyable. The fact that you always go beyond the "how" to use an adjustment by including the "why" you opt to do it. A great teaching technique to say the least. Slainte !
I really liked how you showed us how to selectively sharpen an image, super helpful! Thanks!
Thank you for not blasting through LR, good pace I can easily follow. Thank you.
Your videos are simply, Great!!! just perfect... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
That was an excellent edit!! I learned a bunch. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice job. Thanks so much. Enjoy you vacation.
Thanks for another great video!
Great video again, Mark ❤
Thank You!
Superb Mark ...always learning from your vids 👌
Thanks Mark!!! Love these process videos. You are a fantastic teacher!!! Thanks for sharing
I appreciate that - thank you Greg!
This is a freaking awesome video! A ton of great information and techniques. And I appreciate that you have a LrC + PS workflow, and that in this example doesn't rely too heavily on PS, as I'm a definite PS beginner. All in all, much appreciated :)
Great tips and a very good example of working flow. Thank you Mark!
Great to hear you enjoyed it!
Thanks!
I love your videos and your explanations, just a joy to watch and quite therapeutic :) Thank you
Thanks so much!
Great video once again. Enjoy Spain. Love learning these tips and tricks
Thanks Adam!
This actually useful :)
Very cool class!
I enjoy your work, your videos are so to the point!
I can’t wait to try it out!!
Thanks so much Ray!
Always helpful to see alternate workflows to pick up new ideas. Thanks!
Totally agree!
I pretty much would edit the same way I probably wouldn’t have used the individual circular gradients. I would’ve just used a general mask across the bottom but that’s okay. I do like the fact that you highlighted the rock one of the things. Linear grads and circular grads are so good … It’s absolutely a game changer for landscape photography that we now have the ability to do this because it means we don’t have to get the exact perfect exposure across the image
Thanks for a great and informative video, Mark, with lots to take from it. For me, the selective sharpening technique was especially useful.
Great to hear this feedback Michael!
Excellent!
Thanks Bob!
Excellent video as always.
Thanks so much!
Great vid. Small changes can yield big results.
Thanks Greg!
6:00 this was an excellent tip! I use LR a LOT, have been for many years, but there's always something we don't know, because some of us are too careless, lazy, clumsy enough to read the "what's new" info (well, I'm speaking for myself). Therefore, quite a few excellent features go unnoticed. Hence why these videos are priceless. These tips you're teaching are so, so useful to improve our workflow and get even more impressive results, for beginners to long time users.
Also, these are not just for landscape photographers. I am not. I'm an urban, street photographer (taking many photos in promenades with the sea as a background) who doesn't edit a lot my shots, as I like them to stay as faithful to the scene as it was taken, as much as possible, but using your tips allows me to give my photos that subtle extra touch, punch, boost that DO make an aesthetic difference, no matter how subtle. In BW images (my style of choice) these look so good. I should copy and paste this comment in every video of yours.
Thank you so much for what you do in your channel, from content to the way you approach the matters in a clear, pedagogic, non-condescending way. Keep shining.
Best regards from Portugal.
Thanks so much for the kind comment - great to hear the videos are helpful and enjoyable!
One thing I always do before sunrise especially blue hour when only the camera sees the magenta sunlight and again as the sun is just above the horizon maybe the first 10 minutes is to bracket 5 @ +/- 2EV. In today's SW and cameras with greater dynamic range you get clear and real looking images not the old cartoon colors. A main reason is you get brighter light on the darkside of things like driftwood and the correct color of things like sand on the beach or trees/ bushes instead of silhouette of everything and also is what you actually saw. After the sun gets above the horizon you get a smaller sun that is not blown out and get sun rays also. The bottom line is you get 5 images to use as you please that you can never ever go back and get again!
Great video!
Thanks Dave!
Thank you for speaking your heart out always and bringing the hidden photographer out of individuals. The best and most important thing you said in this video is that " Walk away from your PC and reset your eyes ! "
I, with dxo, had the gradiant mask
You choose 102 pixels, not 102 Mega pixels for the Gaussian blur. Would like to understand the radius of the blur better other than it is the standard deviation of the Gaussian function. Do you have a better explanation?
Another great shot. When you used the plug-in to apply the Orton effect to just the highlights, could you have also used the blend-if slider in the layer properties to remove the adjustment from the shadows? Seems that would have a similar effect. Asking b/c I don’t have that plug-in.
Yes, blend-if would work.👍
I had the exact same question. Now to figure out what the answer means. Thanks
Love your videos. Question- How long did it take you to become so fluid in FS and LR?
What brand is that odd ball head at the start of this video? Like to know more about it.
Great video. I’m not sure how you created the layer you used for sharpening, but it may have overridden your Orton effect on the rock? Perhaps that was intentional? More of an fyi.
I learn something new every time! Watching you use Photoshop makes it seems less scary now. LOL.
Ahhh that's good to hear Nikki!
Since you already have Lumenzia and the LR portion of this video was basically dodging and burning, do you have any videos where you just do all of this in PS?
Thanks for sharing the amazing edit Mark .. Get some rest 😉
Thanks so much Omar! Yes sleep time for me:)
I liked specifically the sharpening effect. But why didn’t you expand the histogram to the right in the first step? Take care, Göran from Latvia
I appreciate the thoroughness of the approach, but honestly I think it's a lot more time spent that would really be worth it in the end. You can get to 90% of where you ended up withoput laboring through so many gradients and layers IMHO.
My radial gradient filter, doesn't have tabs with the new version like it use to. Is there a way to turn them on? Thanks in Advance.
Hey Mark! I have a quick question about panorama photography. Typically with panoramas, we stay fixed and rotate the camera around, and in LR we can select various projections that fit the image best (spherical, etc). I recently took a series of photos where I physically moved for each one. I had a drone looking at some buildings, and I moved the drone parallel with the buildings left to right, taking pictures at various intervals, facing them and never changing the camera - just the drone's location. I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself, the end result would be a very long photo of the series of buildings stitched together. However, in LR I'm having difficulty stitching it as it's not a "perspective" or "spherical" panorama, since I'm not rotating about a fixed point but rather moving the camera physically to obtain a very long panorama with the camera perpendicular to the buildings. Do you have any advice on softwares or techniques to stitch these photos together? Thank you!
Perhaps use the print module and select the photos you want in horizontal (or vertical) alignment and select a print page grid that has the correct number of columns (or rows). Then put each picture in the correct cell location and set the borders / edges to zero pixels. You should be then able to then print a new jpeg that has all your pixels for a super wide shot for further import / editing. This is if you only want to use LR Classic, versus Photoshop and it definitely helps if you can stay in alignment vertically from shot to shot, if you are doing a wide panorama. Hope this helps.
AH!! PTGui will stitch say the two images.
You should team up with Dan Becker for some almost look alike outdoor action 😀
I start in Lightroom and end in Photoshop with TK 8.
Is Lumencia a plugin ?
Yes it's to make creating Luminosity Masks much faster and easier.
@@MarkDenneyPhoto Mmm the 'tutorials for it on their web site are 8 years old LOL do they update it ?
That was a great class you taught. The first thing i did when i woke up to prepare for the bus to go that spot was shooting the milky way from the balkony of the hotel in Cala Galdana.
And thenwhen on location treated by this kind of light. What else could we wish for?
Thanks for the great week.
grtz \o/
Thanks so much Rob - a great week indeed! Take care my friend!
Hi Mark, any chance you could show how to blur the highlights without using a plugin. Is it levels or curves? I can't seem to reverse engineer it in my head. Your results are fantastic and I'd love to experiment but don't have any plugins. Cheers and thanks for your videos, I truly enjoy them.
You'd have to build a luminosity mask just for the highlights in order to replicate what the plug in is doing
That would be a nice addition to the video or a future video explaining the exercise done natively in PS.
And ditto to the accolades. These are really great Mark 🙏🏼
Brilliant video. I’m just learning to edit and to be honest would prefer not to. I’m always surprised by the minimal adjustments a pro makes. I’m definitely too heavy handed. I’m using Luminar Neo so there are lots of differences but the idea is the same. If only the results were :(
I've watched (and loved) your videos for a while now, and lately I've been more and more disappointed to find out how much "photoshopping" goes into creating your final images. Not just you, but also the other "photographers" that I follow on youtube. Sometimes, your original image (what I call a true photograph) and your final image (what I call digital art) bear only a passing resemblance. I realize that "photographers" and "digital artists" have a lot of debate over the blurry line between the two. In fact, I believe that line is very distinct. If you are using Photoshop to process your images, then you are NOT a photographer but a digital artist. I mean, the real art of photography is to get it all right in the camera; what you do to enhance it (and correct mistakes) is clearly in the realm of art. Photography is the art of composing and capturing an image using the variables that your camera provides, i.e., shutter speed, f-stop, focus, iso etc. If you change any of this in post processing (which most software now allows you to do), then you are no longer a photographer. I have respect for digital artistry, but in my opinion, that is a completely different discipline than photography.
A few days ago, I saw an artist take a "fairly decent" photograph, remove the foreground completely and replace it with an upside down image of the sky and mid-ground to create a reflection. He then adjusted the reflection to make it look a little bit different than the mid-ground and sky. The result was a gorgeous landscape image. But it was no longer the same photograph!! The Foreground had now become a gorgeous lake with a reflection! How can this be called photography? This is utter nonsense! Really?
Are you going to visit Portugal as well?
No not this time. I wish!
@@MarkDenneyPhoto shame, would be more than happy to welcome you and meet you. Keep up the awesome work!
8:10 There's a face in the rocks on the right
why do people not use the new lightroom? Classic settings aren't even the same, and to people using the new app a lot of these videos aren't helpful. Most every video i look for to try and get some help with lightroom stuff, its 2023 but they are using Classic instead of the "normal" lightroom. Which just seems like its a more dated version with less clear UI?
That’s because new Lightroom forces You to upload all your Photos to the cloud. Cant use it with files stored locally
i really liked the first radial you used but the others put an unnatural light which is really fake and it's not worth it too work for nothing that adds beneficial to the photo. I've seen better lightroom tutorials and the title of the video baits you. didn't unlike the video but MAAaaaaan cmon!
the photo was much better before =(