There are many professionals out there who like to keep their editing tricks to themselves because it's their signature, and here you are sharing it to the world. I truly appreciate your work and skill.
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!
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 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 don't think the inverse square law comes into play here as far as the sun is concerned -- over the course of one year our distance from the sun swings about 5 million kilometers plus and minus due to the elliptical orbit, but we don't notice it, so the short distance to the horizon does not make any difference to the sun light itself. What is important though is the atmosphere (including dust and aerosols) the sunlight has to travel through, which is of course more important the lower the sun is. But otherwise your Lightroom tips are great! Thank you very much for this.
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 ...
I like the way you are „painting“ your pictures to show how you felt the scene and to demonstrate the physics of light! The biggest impact in this Video for me was the way of correcting the lighthouse geometry. Thank you for sharing! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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.
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!
Wow! Great video! Learned a whole new kit bag of tips, tricks, tactics, and techniques! Thanks for putting this together and tying it to light theory and all the capabilities of LR to make a photo its best!
This is brilliant! I didn't know some of these shortcuts existed until today! I have a feeling this will make editing my photos a lot more customizable to my taste!
This was seriously an incredible video! I've been processing images in Lightroom for a few years now, and I think I'm getting pretty decent at it. However, you just taught me so much! Thank you for sharing this!!!
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.
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!
Amazing. Something so simple, and we see it every day, but we never think about it. I love the way you explain things, not assuming everyone knows how to do it in the first place. And explaining it in clear terms, not condescending ones. Thank you. I'm going to practice this now.
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.
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.
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!
You are such an awesome teacher! I always learn from your videos and more importantly to inspire me to improve my photography! Thanks for taking me along!
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
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!
Outstanding, you showed me a couple things I didnt know. You used quite a few radial gradients there on the rocks...Lately I have been using color range and adjusting the intensity to do something very similar in PH.
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 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.
What a master. Such a privilege to learn from someone with this level of professionalism. The laws of physics applied on a photograph, only a true master can teach this.
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!
Great video. I learned a lot and took notes. My editing lately has been to use the light as you have addressed in this video, but you've given me a concrete list to go through in my thought process. THANK YOU!
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.
I also do astrophotography with wildlife so if we can get a video on stacking(sequator) and processing tips of the photos. BTW I learned so much from you❤.
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.
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
One trick I use for making it look more realistic is to over do it slightly. Bring up the exposure, or the temperature, etc. slightly above what looks natural. Then once you have the adjustment for the light done, drop the amount down a bit until it looks natural. I use this in both photoshop and Lightroom quite frequently.
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!
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!
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
There are many professionals out there who like to keep their editing tricks to themselves because it's their signature, and here you are sharing it to the world. I truly appreciate your work and skill.
You are welcome! I'm happy to share!
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!
Agreed!
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 😂.
It is insane that this level of knowledge is being shared freely by Simon. What a gift this guy is!
Please make more lightroom tricks videos!!! They are amazing.
Agree.
Not everyone uses this SW.
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!
True!
Finally, a real pro photographer that calls digital camera iso changes a “Gain Change” rather than a “Sensitivity Adjustment”.
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!
Wow. This was awesome. Finally I understood how to do it. You're a truly amazing teacher. Many thanks.
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.
Great tips that I can apply with ON1. This is going into my Top Photo Editing Videos folder.
I’m glad you like it!
I'm a beginner in photography. Your tutorials are a great help. Thanks a lot.
I don't think the inverse square law comes into play here as far as the sun is concerned -- over the course of one year our distance from the sun swings about 5 million kilometers plus and minus due to the elliptical orbit, but we don't notice it, so the short distance to the horizon does not make any difference to the sun light itself. What is important though is the atmosphere (including dust and aerosols) the sunlight has to travel through, which is of course more important the lower the sun is. But otherwise your Lightroom tips are great! Thank you very much for this.
I actually recorded this, but cut it as the video was getting long
Perfect balance of theory and practice - so much more effective than instructions that say "I do this ...". Thanks Simon, from our western seaboard!
I've absolutely upped my game and learned some cool tricks from Simon... tangible results. Thank you Simon! 👨🎓
Awesome to hear!
That trick with brush lines and size adjustments is absolutely brilliant! Thank you.
That subtle change makes it look real, instead of the overprocessing happening these days. Guilty as charged LOL
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 ...
His artistic name should be Simon Ross
Simon d’Entremont your vídeos are simply the best out there ! The Way you teach is the best thing ever…
I like the way you are „painting“ your pictures to show how you felt the scene and to demonstrate the physics of light! The biggest impact in this Video for me was the way of correcting the lighthouse geometry.
Thank you for sharing! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wow, brilliant! While I am very familiar with these toos, I never thought of them in such an application. Great ideas, thanks.
Got some Bob Ross vibes from watching you edit. 😊 Great tips, thank you!
I was thinking the same thing.
This was brilliant, thank you! Your enthusiasm on the topic is a plus.
(Funny thing, my daughter has a physics exam tomorrow.)
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.
Learned so many new Lightroom tricks from this beautifully presented video. Literally painting with light! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Simon
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for another great video and challenging us to look at editing in a new and exciting way!
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!
Wow! Great video! Learned a whole new kit bag of tips, tricks, tactics, and techniques! Thanks for putting this together and tying it to light theory and all the capabilities of LR to make a photo its best!
This is brilliant! I didn't know some of these shortcuts existed until today! I have a feeling this will make editing my photos a lot more customizable to my taste!
This was seriously an incredible video! I've been processing images in Lightroom for a few years now, and I think I'm getting pretty decent at it. However, you just taught me so much! Thank you for sharing this!!!
Glad it helped!
Wow. I learned heaps. The triangle of light from the sun blew me away. I will watch it again, Thank you.
Thank you Simon for another comprehensive video. Always appreciate how you share advanced techniques and knowledge and keep it simple 😊
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.
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!
Amazing. Something so simple, and we see it every day, but we never think about it. I love the way you explain things, not assuming everyone knows how to do it in the first place. And explaining it in clear terms, not condescending ones. Thank you. I'm going to practice this now.
I use Lightroom and didn't know I could do any of these adjustments! Thank you so much for this video
Wonderful video Simon. One of my favourite masks is lower exposure on inverse Radial subtract Sky which makes subtle vignette.
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.
A little late to this video, but glad to see some post-processing videos!
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!
Every one of your videos I learn something new, you're brilliant!! 😁
Happy to hear that!
Simply brilliant teaching! Thank you, Simon.
Wow I had no idea about the sharpness masking trick. Great video!
Dodgeing and burning made easy… By Simon!
Great explanation!
I’m glad you think so!
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.
I think this is one of the best explanations of a complex topic I've ever seen. Great work
You are such an awesome teacher! I always learn from your videos and more importantly to inspire me to improve my photography! Thanks for taking me along!
I appreciate that!
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
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!
There was me thinking I knew how to use LRC. Lots of great edits in this video. Thanks for posting.
Outstanding, you showed me a couple things I didnt know. You used quite a few radial gradients there on the rocks...Lately I have been using color range and adjusting the intensity to do something very similar in PH.
You're the best. Grateful for your expertise and excellent teaching.
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.
Great tutorial. I don't think I will ever grok the entirety of Lightroom but this video makes some significant inroads. Thank you!
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.
literally the best photographer there is right now
This was fantastic, thank you for sharing.
Thank you Simon for sharing your photography knowledge with RUclips community. I appreciate and have taken advantage of the lessons you share. Cheers.
What a master. Such a privilege to learn from someone with this level of professionalism. The laws of physics applied on a photograph, only a true master can teach this.
This was very helpful! Really appreciate the Lightroom deep dive, wish there were more videos that go beyond the basics. Thank you Simon!
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.
I never did take physics, but you made it easy to understand!
As always, great content. Appreciate the instruction!
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!
Thanks, Simon!
Another gem! Shows again how photographs (vice snapshots) are made, not just taken.
Wow! Absolutely inspiring. Thanks for sharing a wealth of knowledge.
Great video. I learned a lot and took notes. My editing lately has been to use the light as you have addressed in this video, but you've given me a concrete list to go through in my thought process. THANK YOU!
You’re welcome!
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.
I love the lightroom video. More like this please!
Wow, that was a master class in lightroom. Thank you! Enjoying your videos every week, and learning a ton.
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.
This was a great instructional video. I have this saved as a much watch when editing a landscape shot.
this hands-on tutorial is the best video of yours I have watched
I also do astrophotography with wildlife so if we can get a video on stacking(sequator) and processing tips of the photos.
BTW I learned so much from you❤.
That’s a great idea! Next Spring likely
Thank you Simon, this is beautiful. I learned so much!
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!
Outstanding lesson, I learned so much. Thank you Simon!
I tried your tips from this toturial, and I got amazing results on my photos.
Thanks for it.
I'm glad you like it!
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!
I didn't realize you lived in Nova Scotia. So beautiful! And where my ancestors lived.
Mi'kma'ki. Land of the Mi'kmaq.
Many thanks for sharing those tips, I wasn't aware of a few of those, will utilise those methods on my photos
You are just too good!!! Thank you for these videos.
Glad you like them!
Very useful to know the thought process
Не ну базара нет. Но у каждого истинного фотографа - свой стиль :)
I look forward to Simon’s videos too.. Such useful information well explained with great examples
Great tips. I find making these adjustments is like seasoning your food. A little bit makes a big difference. Too much is worse than none.
I just know this video is gonna be a hit! Love this app and your opinions 😅🫂
Excellent video 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
One trick I use for making it look more realistic is to over do it slightly. Bring up the exposure, or the temperature, etc. slightly above what looks natural. Then once you have the adjustment for the light done, drop the amount down a bit until it looks natural. I use this in both photoshop and Lightroom quite frequently.
Good tip!
Wow this is amazing Simon. Thank you for teaching us these techniques.
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!
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!
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!
You really en-lightened me. I’ll actually look at this in my images now :)
Wonderful presentation - thanks!
Perhaps one of your best tip videos! Thank you!