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.
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
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 😅
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. 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, 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.
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
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.
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'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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
... i like the before better, but either way, great edditing tips'n'tools. so much thanks!
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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 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.
I was looking forward to your editting of the Lighthouse as shown on the thumb nail of the RUclips. I have a few shots that could potentially benefit but it wasn't there?
😄 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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
Thank you for this. I have never really explored the calibration and colour grading much, especially calibration. I have some photos that are driving me crazy with shadow colours that are not working out properly. Wish me luck!
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.
Tipp 4 is Awesome! Thank you
Mark, Thank you for turnng this feature on for me !
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
I was thinking the exact same thing. Why on earth is he screwing with a perfectly good exposure?! 😂
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial 🙏🏻
Great video. Thanks for the tips.
Fantastic tips!
Great tips, thanks Mark 👍
Beautiful!
Thanks for this. Very helpful
Great tips and tricks thank you so much!
Very nice information again thank you
Great video !!!
Like your channel, good explanation and gain a lot of knowledge with my edit skills. Thank you
Enjoyed this video... everything but that shirt.... Go Herd... 😁😁
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, 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.
Great review.
Thank you for this
Thank u soooo much, I start using Lightroom and this helped me a lot. 🙏
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
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.
love to learn from you.
Nice tips man
Love the way you explain your tutorials Mark.
I like the bright and cheery editing too.
Wow - in the first 8 minutes, I've learnt more about using Lightroom effectively than I have in the last year! Thanks, awesome video.
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'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.
Excellent video.
Thanks Keith!
Excellent, as always. Thank you Mark!
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!
Thanks Denney for another nice quick tutorial.
Very informative and helpful insights and tips. Thanks for sharing!!!
Great information! Thanks Mark!
You are the best. Thanks for the tutorials and the tips, it has improved my photography editing skills a lot.
Thank you for this! Very informative!
Just here to celebrate 🍾 the Appalachian state tee!
Awesome Mark. 👌👏🏽👏🏽
Always enjoy your techniques.
This is great Mark! Fire content as usual my friend :)
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 Mark, Great video. It really helps a lot.
Hi Mark, thank you for another top quality video. Please keep up the great work. Cheers, Ivan
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this Ralph!
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.
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 shirt! Go App!
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 this tricks you shared with us and well done for the great video as all ways
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!
Mark..great video! How do you make a set point in the tone curve???
Always something new to learn from your videos.. thank you Mark.
Happy to hear this!
Thanks for this Mark!!
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.
Thank you Mark you have made this so simple to listen to keep the info Mark
Glad you enjoyed it Colin!
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 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!
Great informative video Mark, thanks as always.
Thanks for checking it out Nick!
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
Great tips and ideas Mark! Thank you!
Thank ya Jim!!
Great video, Mark. All new techniques I will try when I re-re-re-edit my photos one more time 😊
Great video as always Mark!
Thanks Tommy!!
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!
Great video Mark!
Many thanks Rick!!
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!
Another great editing video!! Will certainly give these a go in the future. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for some great ideas. Really like the radial tool for bringing out colour in sunset/sunrises.
Hey Mark, I believe you got you last before & afters mixed up on the Yosemite scene. No biggy, great video!
... i like the before better, but either way, great edditing tips'n'tools. so much thanks!
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.
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.
I was looking forward to your editting of the Lighthouse as shown on the thumb nail of the RUclips. I have a few shots that could potentially benefit but it wasn't there?
Very helpful Mark, thnx.
Glad to do it!!
😄 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.
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!
Thank you for all your videos. I’ve learned so much from you!
Love hearing this - thank you!
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?
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!!
Again...great content!
Appreciate it Danny!
That waterfall near the end of the video looks like Issaqueena Falls
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!
Superb tutorial. More please.
Thanks so much Sarah!
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!
Cool vid, but the first pic I kinda liked it the way it was originally. I might have just lit up rocks a bit. Shows most of this is subjective really.
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!
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!
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!
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.
Nice tips. thanks!
Thanks a million!
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
video molto interessante
Thanks Marco!
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.
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!
Once you make the edit with the radial gradient, how do you apply the change? When I click on the mask button to exit masks, my change goes away.
I find that the grain slder also improves perceived sharpness
Thank you for this. I have never really explored the calibration and colour grading much, especially calibration. I have some photos that are driving me crazy with shadow colours that are not working out properly. Wish me luck!