Revolutionize your wildlife photography with these 5 Lightroom hacks

Wildlife photography Lightroom tips to help you revolutionize your work!
Lightroom Classic is a powerful tool for wildlife photographers to realize their creative vision. In this tutorial, I will show you some of the tips that I use everyday to produce beautiful images.
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[@raficknaseeven3533]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Enjoyed your approach which is different from many other online forums.

[@MatthewCuda]

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@keithmacdonald4805]

Great tips, well done, thanks!!

[@MatthewCuda]

Glad it was helpful!

[@BobSouthDakota]

I really like your Lightroom explanations. Thank you

[@MatthewCuda]

Thanks, you are welcome

[@gregpatterson134]

I really appreciate your presentation style. Just learning LR and these are great tips. What computer do you use and has it been efficient and enough processing power? Thanks

[@MatthewCuda]

Thank you! I recommend any modern entry level gaming PC (or better), and a minimum of an RTX 3060 graphics card. Note, that VRAM is the most important when it comes to rendering images and processing video. I got the VRAM idea directly from the techs and other power users of Lightroom and Topaz products.

[@dodutils]

For white and black levels if you double click on the white and black cursor or just the white and black labels, LR will automatically adjust the levels the way you do it, may be leaving a bit more white or black points not making them all dissapear from the masked view.

[@MatthewCuda]

I use manual adjustment because often I want to tweak it a bit based on my experience. Besides, what is the fun in automatic adjustments :)

[@joanneabramson2645]

This is the first time I have seen one of your videos. You have a great teaching style and I learned a lot. The background change was perfect for what I need in wildlife and I will be trying your techniques. Thanks from your new subscriber!

[@MatthewCuda]

I am glad you got something out of it! Thanks and stay tuned.

[@uaebifvideo5472]

Thank you for the information!!.

[@MatthewCuda]

You are welcome!

[@susan8312]

Hi Matthew! Keep the LRC instruction & tips coming!!!

[@MatthewCuda]

Will do

[@jhmnieuwenhuis]

Really good tips, thanks !

[@MatthewCuda]

You are welcome

[@popiemac4579]

Excellent video

[@MatthewCuda]

Thanks, popiemac, stay tuned!

[@Kyllah60]

What white balance would you suggest ????

[@MatthewCuda]

white balance is both scientific and creative. When outdoors, I shoot daylight balanced or auto. When I get into LR, I use the temperature slider to warm the scene up 95% of the time. Be aware that if you do this, you need to calibrate your monitor's colors so you can get it to your own artistic look. I recommend calibrite (costs more) or spyder x to calibrate your monitor.

[@popiemac4579]

Great video again. I watch it several times so it will stick. 😊 Do you have a recommendations to reduce the background green color only when the subject is also green (like a hummingbird) which you want to maintain.

[@MatthewCuda]

Yes, you can select the background, and then desaturate the green in the background using the saturation slider.

[@popiemac4579]

@@MatthewCuda I see. Background only using masking tool. Just like you did with clarity on the last example. That clarity example was surprising.

[@davepastern]

Hi Matthew - your tip #2 is a game changer for me. My images are a LOT better now using this logic in my workflow.
Many thanks from downunder!
edit: this video, combined with Jan Wegener's video on sharpness (and fixing perceived sharpness with fixing WB) have helped me a lot.

[@MatthewCuda]

You are welcome Dave, and I am glad I could help you. Stay tuned for much more.

[@drpepper998]

You can just hit CTRL+X to flip to portrait mode while in the crop tool.

[@MatthewCuda]

I am more of a point and click guy

[@SantoshKumar-pu5xl]

Your video is extremely slow even at 1.5x speed.. 😢

[@MatthewCuda]

I recommend Ritalin