The biggest lesson I have learned over the years about editing is to have a plan before you start. Take some time to understand the untouched image and identify the objects and areas that need some help, and what help they need. Once you have a sense of that, following this very methodical approach should produce great results. Always remembering to keep your adjustments subtle. This shows a great workflow, Simon, and you do a much better job of explaining the all important "Why" of what you're doing than most tutorials I've seen. You are a born teacher!
I really appreciate how you don’t tell people how they should process their photos in a dogmatic way as in “this is the only correct way to do it” but rather you explain the tools and the techniques we can then utilise to express our artistic views to the fullest 👏🏻
Just remember: Simon has a lot of experience doing so, that's why it looks easy when he does. Try things and see what you like, learning is a very personal process!
I think the most important thing to understand while learning and applying those concepts is learning not to be greedy with the effects and have faith that the accumulations of those various small changes do eventually lead to a more appealing image rather than an just overly sharp and bright ones
Another Master Class but presented in an easy to understand way. You can only read so much in books, but tips like these are from many years of experience. Top man Simon.....even though you have a well deserved plus 500k sub count, you are still the same as you were at a 1000 subs in that you really do want everyone to be as good as they can be at photography.
Wow, this is brilliant! I've been using Lightroom for years and I didn't think about using the tools in this way 🤯. I've always wondered how pro's get these lighting details in photos, but not had the time to look into it. This is an amazing summary and I already have photos that I could use this skill on. Thanks Simon!
I enjoyed and learned from this video, as always, but it also brought back some fond memories. On one of our yearly family vacations as a kid we drove up through New England and took the Bluenose ferry from Bar Harbor, Maine to Nova Scotia. I distinctly remember Peggy’s Cove, and my brother and I actually climbed around on those rocks in the foreground of your photo. I was around 13 yrs old at the time and I’m 64 now. 😳 One thing I remember is that that area is so beautiful you could almost close your eyes, spin yourself around, and snap a picture that woukd be postcard-worthy, even with our little pocket instamatic cameras back then. Absolutely beautiful country. Hope to make it back up there again.
Simone has definitely mastered the pre-printing art. This reminds me of Ansel Adams. Without his masterful abilities as a printer using mostly masking, dodging and burning techniques, he was able to produce masterpieces. His original negatives were basically what we call RAW images today.
I appreciate you integrating the physics of light into choices made in editing. Personal aesthetic is always at play, of course, but it is helpful to have a rationale for the adjustments we make to elements of an image. Thank you.
Incredible teaching and really accessible to grasp how to make that feeling of wonder felt in the field even more impactful on the photo ! Great thanks for this wisdom
Thank you so much, Simon! I got a 17-28mm recently, so this video couldn't have come at a better time. Your Lightroom tips and tricks have always helped me look like a better photographer than I really am.
I love all of your lessons and constantly share them with my fellow student photographers! We'll be taking photos after dark at a local Halloween lights trail, and I know we'll need to work on them in Lightroom afterwards. I've been sending folks your videos on low light photography to get us prepared!
Great timing...I just returned from my first trip to Nova Scotia. We visited Peggy's Cove the weekend before it was set to close and I got a shot of this lighthouse. I'll test out your suggestions and see how I can improve my shot. Thanks so much!
Instantly added this one to my photoshop playlist. I can learn SO much from this video...and it was fun to watch. You cant get better than that, well done!
I've been an amateur photographer, on and off, for the better part of 30 years. While I made the shift to digital about 10-15 years ago, I have mostly limited my post processing work. I'm now reengaging in the hobby with a focus on Landscape, Macro, and Wildlife. I have really enjoyed the videos from your channel. It's a great mix of tips, aesthetic philosophy, and technique, with some equipment reviews sprinkled in. Thank you for some great content! Have you considered doing a series on your Lightroom/Photoshop workflow? I'd love to get your perspective on the following processes. - Importing photos - Your general process for picking the keepers and filtering out the others before processing - Are there any techniques that you apply across the board? (e.g. at least x amount of sharpening to all the keepers) Why? - When in the workflow to apply certain techniques (e.g. crop first, then apply any sharpening, overall exposure modification, etc...). Especially if there's a reason to do one thing first. - Under what situations do you switch from Lightroom to Photoshop? Just my thoughts. If this isn't something you'd want to do, are there any creators that you'd point to that you feel have a solid process that would be a good starting point? Regardless, thank you for the amazing content I've seen so far!
Wow, a wonderful tutorial on light physics and photography. Simon you never disappoint your viewers and this one is great. As a follow-up on light physics, perhaps a tutorial explaining how a polarizer affects the light entering your lens, when to use a polarizer and when not to. Many people realize the image outcome when using a polarizer, but not the reasons why and how you can adjust it.
Thank you so much for thank tricks and explanations even it was for the wide angle lens to the whole edit processing that was amazing thank you so much 👏🏻 have a wonderful day!
Super helpful video! Thanks so much. Now I understand why some of my edits looked unnatural, but I didn't know why that was or how to make them look natural.
There were a couple of times in there where Simon got into that low, calm, narration, and I expected him to add a "happy little mask" here and there! LOL He'd need a blong afro wig to go with ...
Simon, i do have a “strange” question to you… How did you learn to speak with no BS? Not a single word can be removed from your speech without affecting the meaning. No word wasted. It’s amazing quality on its own!
Great video as always thank you for this editing tutorial I been struggling with editing so this video will definitely help. Hope to see some more soon!
Hi Simon! Great tips, thank you for that. I also have one for you, regarding the brush method at 07:50: After you klicked the first time, you can use the mousewheel to resice and do whatever settings you want without holding shift. You only need to hold it, when you klick your second time to create the line. Hope this will relaxe your fingers a bit, so you can take more photos :D
Wonderful adjustments there. Real mastery. Didn't know how to use guided de-angling, now I do ;). That's quite an amount of chromatic aberration on the contour of the lighthouse, though... it's not hard to fix, and it's good that you didn't, but I did scroll through the video trying to figure out what lens you used. Not an error report by any means!
Thanks Simon for creating and sharing this video. Lots of great tips and suggestions on how to improve the impact of light within images. Cheers, Keith Pinn (Barrie, Ontario)
I was in Nova Scotia for two weeks in early October. I'm a Landscape photographer. So I'm telling my cousin and his wife about this Nature photographer from Nova Scotia that I've been following for a few years now. Turns out, they know you. My cousins wife tells me you were her Deputy Minister. You were already known for your wild life photography before you retired from government work and devoted yourself to photography full time. Small world. As an aside, I was hiking the Hobson Lake Trail Loop. Completely unmarked trail. My phone battery died. Lost the use of All Trails app. They had to call out Search and Rescue to find me. Nice guys and girls these Search and Rescue people.
Hopefully Adobe isn't reading these comments, but I would happily pay 5X the current rate for my Lightroom subscription, lol. Simon, Thank You for another fantastic tutorial.
Well said, I often review Simon’s videos for those little editing nuggets that I needed to use but didn’t know how to do. He is a wonderful photographer and an equally fine teacher.
I need to save all your ‘lessons’ in one place. For sure, I will be editing, thinking ‘Simon had a video on this, now which one was it ?’. Another home run tutorial.
I look forward to Simon’s videos each week. Anyone else agree? 👍
Yes!
Great content to watch on the toilet
Simon has a lovely warm style. I always watch his videos
Absolutely!
Absolutely
Dropping the brush size while holding shift to create that wedge shaped straight line is a great little tip
Ditto the guided straightening in the Transform module for the lighthouse. Didn't know about either trick.
that was my favourite one as well. So far I always made that one with intersecting linear gradients but this is far easier
I love how you manage to put so many adjustments to a single photo without over-doing it. It still looks natural and I think that's amazing.
I'm so glad!
The biggest lesson I have learned over the years about editing is to have a plan before you start. Take some time to understand the untouched image and identify the objects and areas that need some help, and what help they need. Once you have a sense of that, following this very methodical approach should produce great results. Always remembering to keep your adjustments subtle. This shows a great workflow, Simon, and you do a much better job of explaining the all important "Why" of what you're doing than most tutorials I've seen. You are a born teacher!
Please make more lightroom tricks videos!!! They are amazing.
Agree.
Not everyone uses this SW.
The secret hack is understanding physics, and you know what? That deserves a thumbs up. Often overlooked!
Trouble is, he got some of it wrong 😂.
That trick with brush lines and size adjustments is absolutely brilliant! Thank you.
I really appreciate how you don’t tell people how they should process their photos in a dogmatic way as in “this is the only correct way to do it” but rather you explain the tools and the techniques we can then utilise to express our artistic views to the fullest 👏🏻
Just remember: Simon has a lot of experience doing so, that's why it looks easy when he does. Try things and see what you like, learning is a very personal process!
I think the most important thing to understand while learning and applying those concepts is learning not to be greedy with the effects and have faith that the accumulations of those various small changes do eventually lead to a more appealing image rather than an just overly sharp and bright ones
Great tips that I can apply with ON1. This is going into my Top Photo Editing Videos folder.
I’m glad you like it!
Another Master Class but presented in an easy to understand way. You can only read so much in books, but tips like these are from many years of experience. Top man Simon.....even though you have a well deserved plus 500k sub count, you are still the same as you were at a 1000 subs in that you really do want everyone to be as good as they can be at photography.
Wow, thanks!
Simon d’Entremont your vídeos are simply the best out there ! The Way you teach is the best thing ever…
Wow, that was a master class in lightroom. Thank you! Enjoying your videos every week, and learning a ton.
Wow. I learned heaps. The triangle of light from the sun blew me away. I will watch it again, Thank you.
Wow, this is brilliant! I've been using Lightroom for years and I didn't think about using the tools in this way 🤯. I've always wondered how pro's get these lighting details in photos, but not had the time to look into it. This is an amazing summary and I already have photos that I could use this skill on. Thanks Simon!
Thank you Simon for sharing your photography knowledge with RUclips community. I appreciate and have taken advantage of the lessons you share. Cheers.
literally the best photographer there is right now
I enjoyed and learned from this video, as always, but it also brought back some fond memories. On one of our yearly family vacations as a kid we drove up through New England and took the Bluenose ferry from Bar Harbor, Maine to Nova Scotia. I distinctly remember Peggy’s Cove, and my brother and I actually climbed around on those rocks in the foreground of your photo. I was around 13 yrs old at the time and I’m 64 now. 😳 One thing I remember is that that area is so beautiful you could almost close your eyes, spin yourself around, and snap a picture that woukd be postcard-worthy, even with our little pocket instamatic cameras back then. Absolutely beautiful country. Hope to make it back up there again.
Simone has definitely mastered the pre-printing art.
This reminds me of Ansel Adams. Without his masterful abilities as a printer using mostly masking, dodging and burning techniques, he was able to produce masterpieces. His original negatives were basically what we call RAW images today.
I tried your tips from this toturial, and I got amazing results on my photos.
Thanks for it.
I'm glad you like it!
You're the best. Grateful for your expertise and excellent teaching.
I appreciate you integrating the physics of light into choices made in editing. Personal aesthetic is always at play, of course, but it is helpful to have a rationale for the adjustments we make to elements of an image. Thank you.
Another gem! Shows again how photographs (vice snapshots) are made, not just taken.
Perhaps one of your best tip videos! Thank you!
I use Lightroom and didn't know I could do any of these adjustments! Thank you so much for this video
This is pure gold. Thanks a lot Simon.
Incredible teaching and really accessible to grasp how to make that feeling of wonder felt in the field even more impactful on the photo !
Great thanks for this wisdom
I'm a beginner in photography. Your tutorials are a great help. Thanks a lot.
Wow, Simon! Wow. I just learned SO much. I'm doing SOME of this, but in such clunky ways. Thanks for showing me a lot in a very entertaining way.
Thank you so much, Simon! I got a 17-28mm recently, so this video couldn't have come at a better time. Your Lightroom tips and tricks have always helped me look like a better photographer than I really am.
I look forward to Simon’s videos too.. Such useful information well explained with great examples
Great tutorial. I don't think I will ever grok the entirety of Lightroom but this video makes some significant inroads. Thank you!
I love all of your lessons and constantly share them with my fellow student photographers! We'll be taking photos after dark at a local Halloween lights trail, and I know we'll need to work on them in Lightroom afterwards. I've been sending folks your videos on low light photography to get us prepared!
Thanks Simon, this is one of the best LR tutorials I have seen.
Absolutely fantastic!
Dodgeing and burning made easy… By Simon!
Great explanation!
I’m glad you think so!
Thanks for another great video and challenging us to look at editing in a new and exciting way!
Wonderful video Simon. One of my favourite masks is lower exposure on inverse Radial subtract Sky which makes subtle vignette.
Thank you sir for this video, please keep making videos like this.. stay safe and healthy ❤
Great timing...I just returned from my first trip to Nova Scotia. We visited Peggy's Cove the weekend before it was set to close and I got a shot of this lighthouse. I'll test out your suggestions and see how I can improve my shot. Thanks so much!
Wow this is amazing Simon. Thank you for teaching us these techniques.
I never did take physics, but you made it easy to understand!
I love the way you explain everything. Very easy to follow. 👍🏼👍🏼
Happy to hear that!
This was a great instructional video. I have this saved as a much watch when editing a landscape shot.
Instantly added this one to my photoshop playlist. I can learn SO much from this video...and it was fun to watch. You cant get better than that, well done!
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it!
Outstanding lesson, I learned so much. Thank you Simon!
I've been an amateur photographer, on and off, for the better part of 30 years. While I made the shift to digital about 10-15 years ago, I have mostly limited my post processing work. I'm now reengaging in the hobby with a focus on Landscape, Macro, and Wildlife.
I have really enjoyed the videos from your channel. It's a great mix of tips, aesthetic philosophy, and technique, with some equipment reviews sprinkled in. Thank you for some great content!
Have you considered doing a series on your Lightroom/Photoshop workflow? I'd love to get your perspective on the following processes.
- Importing photos
- Your general process for picking the keepers and filtering out the others before processing
- Are there any techniques that you apply across the board? (e.g. at least x amount of sharpening to all the keepers) Why?
- When in the workflow to apply certain techniques (e.g. crop first, then apply any sharpening, overall exposure modification, etc...). Especially if there's a reason to do one thing first.
- Under what situations do you switch from Lightroom to Photoshop?
Just my thoughts. If this isn't something you'd want to do, are there any creators that you'd point to that you feel have a solid process that would be a good starting point?
Regardless, thank you for the amazing content I've seen so far!
That’s a great idea for a series, I’ll add it to the list!
This was brilliant, thank you! Your enthusiasm on the topic is a plus.
(Funny thing, my daughter has a physics exam tomorrow.)
Wow, a wonderful tutorial on light physics and photography. Simon you never disappoint your viewers and this one is great. As a follow-up on light physics, perhaps a tutorial explaining how a polarizer affects the light entering your lens, when to use a polarizer and when not to. Many people realize the image outcome when using a polarizer, but not the reasons why and how you can adjust it.
Many thanks!
That was one of the most helpful videos I’ve seen in a long time, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for thank tricks and explanations even it was for the wide angle lens to the whole edit processing that was amazing thank you so much 👏🏻 have a wonderful day!
Не ну базара нет. Но у каждого истинного фотографа - свой стиль :)
Super helpful video! Thanks so much. Now I understand why some of my edits looked unnatural, but I didn't know why that was or how to make them look natural.
There were a couple of times in there where Simon got into that low, calm, narration, and I expected him to add a "happy little mask" here and there! LOL He'd need a blong afro wig to go with ...
Simon, i do have a “strange” question to you… How did you learn to speak with no BS? Not a single word can be removed from your speech without affecting the meaning. No word wasted. It’s amazing quality on its own!
i once finished a job interview in 32 minutes and got the job.
Great video... thank you. Sometimes I forget "how" to approach an image that needs a lot of work this video helps me get tuned up. Mil Gracias.
Thank you Simon for another comprehensive video. Always appreciate how you share advanced techniques and knowledge and keep it simple 😊
this hands-on tutorial is the best video of yours I have watched
Great video as always thank you for this editing tutorial I been struggling with editing so this video will definitely help. Hope to see some more soon!
Hi Simon! Great tips, thank you for that. I also have one for you, regarding the brush method at 07:50: After you klicked the first time, you can use the mousewheel to resice and do whatever settings you want without holding shift. You only need to hold it, when you klick your second time to create the line. Hope this will relaxe your fingers a bit, so you can take more photos :D
Great tip!
Wonderful presentation - thanks!
Nice indeed .... presented in a way that we can all benefit from and remember in the long term ... thanks for your videos!
I’m glad you like it!
This is really useful and interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Very useful to know the thought process
Lots of fun! 😄
Many thanks for sharing those tips, I wasn't aware of a few of those, will utilise those methods on my photos
Another good tutorial Simon
Got some Bob Ross vibes from watching you edit. 😊 Great tips, thank you!
I was thinking the same thing.
Such a good video on Lightroom. I’ll be putting these tricks to use right away.
Wonderful adjustments there. Real mastery. Didn't know how to use guided de-angling, now I do ;). That's quite an amount of chromatic aberration on the contour of the lighthouse, though... it's not hard to fix, and it's good that you didn't, but I did scroll through the video trying to figure out what lens you used. Not an error report by any means!
Thanks Simon for creating and sharing this video. Lots of great tips and suggestions on how to improve the impact of light within images. Cheers, Keith Pinn (Barrie, Ontario)
Thank you so much, your lessons are invaluable
I was in Nova Scotia for two weeks in early October. I'm a Landscape photographer. So I'm telling my cousin and his wife about this Nature photographer from Nova Scotia that I've been following for a few years now. Turns out, they know you. My cousins wife tells me you were her Deputy Minister. You were already known for your wild life photography before you retired from government work and devoted yourself to photography full time. Small world. As an aside, I was hiking the Hobson Lake Trail Loop. Completely unmarked trail. My phone battery died. Lost the use of All Trails app. They had to call out Search and Rescue to find me. Nice guys and girls these Search and Rescue people.
Another superb video. Thanks again, Simon. This will be of great hep.
Hopefully Adobe isn't reading these comments, but I would happily pay 5X the current rate for my Lightroom subscription, lol. Simon, Thank You for another fantastic tutorial.
A true godsend Simon is. I tell you.
I keep learning new hotkeys from Lightroom thanks to you, amazing. :)
Well said, I often review Simon’s videos for those little editing nuggets that I needed to use but didn’t know how to do. He is a wonderful photographer and an equally fine teacher.
Love it
This is fascinating!
Great tips Simon!
I need to save all your ‘lessons’ in one place. For sure, I will be editing, thinking ‘Simon had a video on this, now which one was it ?’. Another home run tutorial.
Excellent video - thanks for sharing!
You really en-lightened me. I’ll actually look at this in my images now :)
Learned quite a bit from this video. Nice work Simon. Thank you.
Awesome “Professor”!
Great video. Always are helpful.
Great stuff, Simon. This helps a lot!
Great video as always!
I didn't realize you lived in Nova Scotia. So beautiful! And where my ancestors lived.
Mi'kma'ki. Land of the Mi'kmaq.
Thank you... very precise...
Thank you.
Amazing video! Thank you for the editing tips.
Another great video thank you
You are an artist with photography. I’ve said that before, but this is amazing.
I appreciate that!
Very helpful video. Thank you!
Masterclass.
A nice starting point. Carry on. 👍🥂
Thanks Simon, ❤️😃
Again a super usefull video Simon!!
Glad you think so!
tons of useful contents! Thank you!
I'm glad you found it helpful!