Mark, I watch your videos a lot, I don't comment probably as much as I should. I just wanted to thank you for all these tips and say you have made me a better photographer through all of your videos and work, for that, I wanted to say a huge thank you!
I can appreciate Mark's effectiveness in speaking. Too many times I watch instructional videos and the jump cuts ruin the video. Almost always in one take! I think it is under-appeciated. Thanks Mark!
Always a great pleasure to watch your videos, with really useful and effective tricks. Your way of explaining, so calm and clear, allows me to follow even if English is not my natural language. Thank you very much !
Your editing vids are top notch. I like your communication style and also your ability to get just the right amount of detail. I am never bored and always informed. Great job, Mark.
Mark I love your videos. I learn something every time I watch them. I'm fairly new to photography. I have been into landscape/wildlife photography a little over a year now and really enjoy it. Keep the videos coming. I'm looking forward to learning more. Thanks
A Dunder-Mifflin box and a GameBoy... No wonder I feel such a kindred spirit with you, Mark! LOL As always, thank you for taking time to share your wealth of knowledge and experience with the rest of us!
Mark, nice work as always. I have one suggestion for your videos - sum up your major points at the end. This video demonstrates 5 'hacks'. Listing them at the end will help cement those in the minds of your viewers. Verbally and visually.
Very cool. I do not use any Adobe software for photo editing. But as you suggested, I was able to reproduce all five of your "hacks" on the photo editor I use. Thank you.
Gosh, I really loved this video! Out of the five hacks you shared, the floating vignette was my favorite. I'll definitely create a preset just so I have a starting point. The other tips were also very helpful. I'm never very sure about using the tone curve tab, but I have recently started to familiarize myself with it. Thanks, Mark.
Great stuff, Mark! I'm going to have to pay more attention to that luminance slider in the Color Grading panel. I didn't even think to see what effect it has until you brought it up. I've also been processing my Iceland photos with my own version of what you call "Grad Painting", only instead of graduating the clarity and texture (which I will definitely try out now that you've mentioned it), I've been graduating with contrast, instead, which has a similar effect and more in keeping with how the eye sees high contrast up close, and low contrast in the distance. It's also good to see you revealing your black fade technique. I've been using it on many of my photos from our Iceland adventure ever since you showed it to me there. Thanks again for all the great tips, and happy shooting in Acadia! :D
Good job! I think you had explained each at one time or another, but if I don’t use them all the time I forget. The radial vignette was something I was trying to remember the other day for a particular image…. And now I know :). Thanks!
Yes, these techniques are definitely very helpful. I don't shoot much landscape but portraits, and they look good on my images, too. Especially dynamic vignetting. I've been applying vignetting in a way that really hurts. I've just tried them out on some portraits I took today!
This is great, Mark! All of your vids are incredibly helpful. This one, showing the benefits of small-ish hacks, takes huge strides in editing. Thanks!
Nice tips. Can I ask for number 4 - Grad Paintings. I hear everywhere that landscape photo must be sharp from front to back. In some cases we use focus stack and then in post you applied negative texture and clarity to soften? It isnt little counterproductive. I understand that with eyes we see like this and added more depth to photo, that front is sharp and back soften, but you can shoot with lower F stop or with focus stacking in field and you have same result with softening in postproduction. Thank you for you videos.
G8 info as always Mark...can you do a video on non photographic equipment you use and find useful. So, do you wear breathable sports tees when hiking, best socks, types of trousers....I think that could be useful to your followers...cheers, keep the good work going
For a long time adding a little bit of color or light felt like such a cheat, but hacks like this really are necessary to bring the correct feel into the photo.
Great tips/hacks Mark. Many thanks for sharing Love the last tip and will definitely be using it. Also like the very natural looking sharpness in the last image. May I ask if that image had been sharpened and what camera and lens did you use for it? Do you have a video on the sharpening technique/s you use? Many thanks
what he’s doing is changing the black point. so the darkest that a pixel in the image could possibly be if it’s clipped, even after any adjustments you make to contrast or tone curves, is like 15, as opposed to 0 (pure black). the shadows slider just generally lightens the shadow areas of the image, but there can still be pixels that are at a 0 even after that.
Hi Mark! Another excellent video! Although I’m curious about your 4th hack, grad painting. Doesn’t this hack defeat the purpose of focus stacking? Additionally, couldn’t you just get this effect authentically by just using a wider aperture and focusing on the foreground? While I understand the desire to reduce the “digital look”, removing the clarity that you worked so hard to accomplish through narrow apertures and focus stacks seems to make that work in the field pointless. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Techniques look interesting. I'm not a Lightroom user, but similar edits can be done in Ps with adjustment layers and layer masks with at least the effectiveness you've shown here and maybe with better results.
I use similar techniques but instead of the radial filter I tend to use the brush tool a little more-- I think at least I think I can do a more realistic effect. Not always so round especially to dodge and burn the photo.
Didn't knew about the luminance slider of the split tone channel. I'll have to try it on some of my images, kind of curious if it will work on my images as well
Sometimes I feeling editing is the thing I still just barely know at all. I'm also in acadia right now and will use these "hacks" when I get to editing.
Great stuff, Mark. Are you still happy with your Aspen ball head? I ordered one on July 29th and I have yet to receive it. Their response to my queries is "no ETA." Do you have any idea what is going on with the Colorado Tripod company?
Any idea if the vignette feature is available on an ipad pro? I keep finding more features on it which is going to make my decision more difficult weather or not to buy the new MacBook when it comes out . 🤔
I love your videos. But so many ads and ad interruptions, they're becoming unwatchable. I'm starting to pass on by, and that makes me sad. :( I do love your work - and your videos. I understand ads are needed but want (politely) to suggest they're out of balance now. In truth, I've no idea how much is in your control!
Aaaaaaaand this is exactly why I quit landscape, street and documentary photography jobs and now I only do portraits and weddings... 90% of photography nowadays is not art. 90% of photography nowadays is fake and isn't photography. Photographers don't take time to compose, don't think creatively and invent new ideas on how to take photos, don't push themselves to limits, whether physically or mentally, to acquire that ''one in a lifetime shot'' or ''that perfect moment'' or ''that impossible angle shot...'' And so on and so forth... 90% of ''photography'' nowadays is just a bunch of pseudo-creative and uncreative people with cameras, mindlessly taking pictures of everything and anything, only to bombard them with heavy digital adjustments (aka. ''edits''), some to the point where the end product looks nothing like the reality and/or the captured image. If you dared any of these photographers to enter any of the ''Photographer of the Year'' contests, in any field, portraiture, wildlife, documentary... Does not matter... They wouldn't even make it past the first round because they don't allow ANY digital adjustments to the submitted images - not even cropping or slight sharpening is allowed. Just imagine how badly 90% of ''photographers'' would perform without being able to fake their images... Seeing this honestly discourages me from even continuing with my photography... The way ''everything'' revolves around editing and the way people promote that as a good thing is just...
Love the way you drill down in an effort enhance the overall look of your image.
Mark, I watch your videos a lot, I don't comment probably as much as I should. I just wanted to thank you for all these tips and say you have made me a better photographer through all of your videos and work, for that, I wanted to say a huge thank you!
I can appreciate Mark's effectiveness in speaking. Too many times I watch instructional videos and the jump cuts ruin the video. Almost always in one take! I think it is under-appeciated. Thanks Mark!
Always a great pleasure to watch your videos, with really useful and effective tricks. Your way of explaining, so calm and clear, allows me to follow even if English is not my natural language. Thank you very much !
Mark, you do such a good job sharing simple but impactful techniques.
Thanks so much Sharon!
Your editing vids are top notch. I like your communication style and also your ability to get just the right amount of detail. I am never bored and always informed. Great job, Mark.
Much appreciated Jeff!!
That color grading technique is awesome. Could be a total game changer for me. Thank you for sharing!! Great video!
Thanks for those hacks Mark. I will try them out during my editing process.
All great tips, Mark, and so easy to use. The difficult part, as always, is when and how much! Thanks, for another really useful video.
Thanks for checking it out Michael!
Mark as usual, great job. Always like how yiu simplify your techniques for us and theyvway you illustrate your techniques
Mark I love your videos. I learn something every time I watch them.
I'm fairly new to photography. I have been into landscape/wildlife photography a little over a year now and really enjoy it.
Keep the videos coming. I'm looking forward to learning more.
Thanks
A Dunder-Mifflin box and a GameBoy... No wonder I feel such a kindred spirit with you, Mark! LOL
As always, thank you for taking time to share your wealth of knowledge and experience with the rest of us!
Undoubtedly, all the hacks are GOLDEN. Thanks Mark.
Glad you think so!
Mark, nice work as always. I have one suggestion for your videos - sum up your major points at the end. This video demonstrates 5 'hacks'. Listing them at the end will help cement those in the minds of your viewers. Verbally and visually.
Excellent. Now must try to remember some of this!
Thanks Mark, always like your style and explanation!
Very cool. I do not use any Adobe software for photo editing. But as you suggested, I was able to reproduce all five of your "hacks" on the photo editor I use. Thank you.
Interesting way for a custom vignette, thanks for sharing.
Another amazingly helpful video Mark. Thanks for sharing these techniques.
Thank you so much Mark for this Tutorial
Great video Mark, great tips, much appreciated.
Great hacks Mark, I thought number two was very useful and good explanation. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Now I need to go back and apply do some more work. Thanks.
Fantastic Mark. Thanks for sharing those. Simple and effective!
Tips I can actually use. Great stuff.
Thanks Mark. looking to utilize the floating vignette technique soon.. hope you are having a good trip to boulder beach.
Thanks for these five hacks, very useful all of them
This is a super helpful video, saving to my photo playlist.
Thank you Ken!
Gosh, I really loved this video! Out of the five hacks you shared, the floating vignette was my favorite. I'll definitely create a preset just so I have a starting point. The other tips were also very helpful. I'm never very sure about using the tone curve tab, but I have recently started to familiarize myself with it. Thanks, Mark.
I agree about the floating vignette - a very useful tool. Overall great video!
Excellent video as ever, Mark! All of these “hacks” are extremely useful and great for a beginner like me to build knowledge on. Thank you!
Thanks Brian
Great stuff, Mark! I'm going to have to pay more attention to that luminance slider in the Color Grading panel. I didn't even think to see what effect it has until you brought it up. I've also been processing my Iceland photos with my own version of what you call "Grad Painting", only instead of graduating the clarity and texture (which I will definitely try out now that you've mentioned it), I've been graduating with contrast, instead, which has a similar effect and more in keeping with how the eye sees high contrast up close, and low contrast in the distance. It's also good to see you revealing your black fade technique. I've been using it on many of my photos from our Iceland adventure ever since you showed it to me there. Thanks again for all the great tips, and happy shooting in Acadia! :D
Really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing and I’ll be putting them to good use. Andy
Good job! I think you had explained each at one time or another, but if I don’t use them all the time I forget. The radial vignette was something I was trying to remember the other day for a particular image…. And now I know :). Thanks!
All five hacks explained clearly and valuable Thanks!
Yet another great tutorial (hack) video Mark!!
Yes, these techniques are definitely very helpful. I don't shoot much landscape but portraits, and they look good on my images, too. Especially dynamic vignetting. I've been applying vignetting in a way that really hurts. I've just tried them out on some portraits I took today!
This is great, Mark! All of your vids are incredibly helpful. This one, showing the benefits of small-ish hacks, takes huge strides in editing. Thanks!
Great to hear you enjoyed it!
Woah, nice! I kind of moved away as all that Fuji Vs Sony blabla started but that's good stuff!! Thanks 👍
Thanks! Simple, useful, & interesting editing techniques.
Thank you Mark, very helpful techniques.
Great stuff, Mark.
Wow. That’s awesome. Thanks a bunch
GRACIAS, MARK!!!... I think I’ll start practicing the “ floating vignette” and the “border light” techniques..Interesting!!
Great hacks Mark! I will be trying them all out this evening!
Thanks for providing such great content week after week 😊
Great to hear you enjoy them Jackie🙏
Great tips! Thank you!
Nice tips. Can I ask for number 4 - Grad Paintings. I hear everywhere that landscape photo must be sharp from front to back. In some cases we use focus stack and then in post you applied negative texture and clarity to soften? It isnt little counterproductive. I understand that with eyes we see like this and added more depth to photo, that front is sharp and back soften, but you can shoot with lower F stop or with focus stacking in field and you have same result with softening in postproduction.
Thank you for you videos.
Great content Mark!
I totally forgot about this year's bundle. I buy them every year. I have a whole library of videos I've collected. Thanks for reminding me!
Of course - glad to do it!
Thank you for this content. As a fujifilm Guy I would love to see you work on capture one as well 😊
Excellent advice! Thanks
I learn so much from you!
G8 info as always Mark...can you do a video on non photographic equipment you use and find useful. So, do you wear breathable sports tees when hiking, best socks, types of trousers....I think that could be useful to your followers...cheers, keep the good work going
Hi Mark, more useful information and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Steve!
Great work,thanks for share,keep going.
For a long time adding a little bit of color or light felt like such a cheat, but hacks like this really are necessary to bring the correct feel into the photo.
Great tips/hacks Mark. Many thanks for sharing Love the last tip and will definitely be using it. Also like the very natural looking sharpness in the last image. May I ask if that image had been sharpened and what camera and lens did you use for it? Do you have a video on the sharpening technique/s you use? Many thanks
It’s the small things that matter. Like the Dunder Mifflin succulent planter.
Very interesting "hacks". On #5, would like to se a comparison with just moving the Shadow slider, which is what most people do, I believe. Thanks
what he’s doing is changing the black point. so the darkest that a pixel in the image could possibly be if it’s clipped, even after any adjustments you make to contrast or tone curves, is like 15, as opposed to 0 (pure black). the shadows slider just generally lightens the shadow areas of the image, but there can still be pixels that are at a 0 even after that.
Well explained! Thanks!!!
Great video…some nice little hacks 😁
That was helpful Mark. Thnx
Happy to hear this!
Range Mask, epic hack 👏👏 Love it
Oh I forgot the floating vignette too. Thanks!
Thanks for interested videos!
Hi Mark! Another excellent video! Although I’m curious about your 4th hack, grad painting. Doesn’t this hack defeat the purpose of focus stacking? Additionally, couldn’t you just get this effect authentically by just using a wider aperture and focusing on the foreground? While I understand the desire to reduce the “digital look”, removing the clarity that you worked so hard to accomplish through narrow apertures and focus stacks seems to make that work in the field pointless. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I am taking notes!! Great content!! 👌👌👌
Thanks so much!!
Thank you so much sir.🥰🥰
Techniques look interesting. I'm not a Lightroom user, but similar edits can be done in Ps with adjustment layers and layer masks with at least the effectiveness you've shown here and maybe with better results.
Great tips thanks
Good stuff Mark!
Thanks Jeremy!
I use similar techniques but instead of the radial filter I tend to use the brush tool a little more-- I think at least I think I can do a more realistic effect. Not always so round especially to dodge and burn the photo.
Love these videos -I am wondering what photo program is on your computer - What app do you use?
Didn't knew about the luminance slider of the split tone channel. I'll have to try it on some of my images, kind of curious if it will work on my images as well
Sometimes I feeling editing is the thing I still just barely know at all. I'm also in acadia right now and will use these "hacks" when I get to editing.
Nice tips indeed
Would printing on deep matte photo paper also give that "Soft Fade" look to the blacks?
Thank you.
Nice hacks. Thanks for sharing!
Glad to do it Wim!
You should definitely cosplay as Michael from The Dresden Files this Halloween
Thanks for the hacks! I really don´t know wich one es the shortcut key, can you tell me please?
Great stuff, Mark. Are you still happy with your Aspen ball head? I ordered one on July 29th and I have yet to receive it. Their response to my queries is "no ETA." Do you have any idea what is going on with the Colorado Tripod company?
Any idea if the vignette feature is available on an ipad pro? I keep finding more features on it which is going to make my decision more difficult weather or not to buy the new MacBook when it comes out . 🤔
Thank you!
Thanks Ted!
What is that RRS tripod your using and how tall?
You are the bob ross of post processing
Great👍👍
Ďakujeme.
You’re the best - this means a lot!!
What model of laptop are u using to edit photos???????
It’s a 2020 MacBook Pro
Thumbs Up !!! (My comment hack)
🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
At what point do you stop calling them photographs and refer to them as digital art?
I still have nothing to say.
I love your videos. But so many ads and ad interruptions, they're becoming unwatchable. I'm starting to pass on by, and that makes me sad. :( I do love your work - and your videos. I understand ads are needed but want (politely) to suggest they're out of balance now. In truth, I've no idea how much is in your control!
Aaaaaaaand this is exactly why I quit landscape, street and documentary photography jobs and now I only do portraits and weddings... 90% of photography nowadays is not art. 90% of photography nowadays is fake and isn't photography. Photographers don't take time to compose, don't think creatively and invent new ideas on how to take photos, don't push themselves to limits, whether physically or mentally, to acquire that ''one in a lifetime shot'' or ''that perfect moment'' or ''that impossible angle shot...'' And so on and so forth... 90% of ''photography'' nowadays is just a bunch of pseudo-creative and uncreative people with cameras, mindlessly taking pictures of everything and anything, only to bombard them with heavy digital adjustments (aka. ''edits''), some to the point where the end product looks nothing like the reality and/or the captured image. If you dared any of these photographers to enter any of the ''Photographer of the Year'' contests, in any field, portraiture, wildlife, documentary... Does not matter... They wouldn't even make it past the first round because they don't allow ANY digital adjustments to the submitted images - not even cropping or slight sharpening is allowed. Just imagine how badly 90% of ''photographers'' would perform without being able to fake their images...
Seeing this honestly discourages me from even continuing with my photography... The way ''everything'' revolves around editing and the way people promote that as a good thing is just...
Skipped through video though every before after before after just a little over done.... I saw looks better before
Thank you