Mark walking away is always a good tip. Not just in editing photos but from any decisions you may have to make. Because you will always see it differently later.
Nice tips. For what it's worth, where I live it's winter for half the year, and I've come to rely heavily on Dehaze. At first I was put off because it adds blue and darkens the shadows considerably, but that can easily be counteracted by some of your other tips like desaturating the blue channel, etc. I'm finding it's actually a better starting point than anything else and does the best job of recovering texture and shadows in the snow.
whafrog Many thanks! Love the Dehaze tool, but you’re right it can really crush your shadows and cool off your image, but when done delicately it can be amazing!
The blue sky was so much nicer in the original though. After changes it looks very washed out. Any way to save the sky, but still making the rest of the changes you did?
Thanks for making this video Mark. I was losing inspiration with my shots from recent ski holiday but these tips have really helped improve the quality of my edits.
Top tips there Mark. Having just edited a snowy picture, I wish I'd seen this before! Most of my snowy photos feature just a dusting of snow, but I did find it way more difficult when the scene was largely snowy. Bookmarked for future reference! 👍
Good advice, especially the walk away tip. This may be old school, but consider metering off an 18% grey card when shooting a winter scene with lots of snow. You will be guaranteed an accurate exposure, if an accurate exposure is what you want for a starting point. Another old school technique is to use an incident light meter if you can get into the scene. Camera light meters are just not very good at metering off snow.
Mark I have been trying to teach my 14 daughter how to edit photos because she loves to take pictures. Since, I had no idea what I was doing I have been using your videos. We started with your 7 steps for every video and have moved on to this one. It has been a blast learning with her and we have completely changed the way we look at photo editing. Thank you for your videos.
Mark, you consistently deliver fantastic tips in a clear, concise style. The simple tip of changing background color is making an enormous difference in my editing already. After staring at the screen for a long time, it's often difficult to tell what's really white or cream or bluish anymore. Thank you!
Useful editing tips, Mark. The walk away is a good general practice. No snow yet in our part of NC, but am willing to forego it. Surprised that for a digital guy you have an analog wall clock on back wall. Did you intentionally create the leading line footprint path right up to the tree in the pic? Reminds me of the visual gag where footprints mystereously diverge around the tree.
Paul M Thanks Paul! I’m hoping the NC snow will be coming soon. Yep, those are my footprints - my first composition was beyond this tree but then noticed all the wind blown snow on this tree - quickly changed my subject at that point.
Hi Mark, thanks for your video. Extremely useful. One question. When I changed to Auto in while balance the number changed to 7500 and when I do half of this the image becomes blue. Who so?
I had the same problem. Looks like he edited a jpg, not a raw file. Temp and tint for raw files in Lightroom sliders preset to Kelvins. With jpg's its a scale from -100 to +100. Wondering then, Mark, how does this step apply to raw files? Thanks.
Hey Marc / Everyone, this is not the correct video to post it but I wanted to ask it anyway. I’m currently in the process of getting my new MacBook Pro 15” which will replace my mid 2012 (main and only workstation). I though of going with the big basic model and additionally adding the following: 2,9 i9 32gb ram Vega 20 1tb SSD I have Intensively googled about what’s needed / important but wanted to ask the community additionally. I edit photos via Lightroom / luminar. I’ve read mixed things regarding the i9 (Heat) and I’m not sure if the Vega 20 is really necessary for my tasks (although what I understood is i9 and Vega 20 have a way better heat management combined). I’ll get a good discount so price is not the primary driver although I don’t want to throw money out of the window. Feedback is mich appreciated!
@@Kohizzzle The Vega 20 graphics card is generally geared towards more graphics intensive tasks, like modelling, creating effects (Adobe/Apple Motion) and some heavy duty 4k video editing. The Vega 20 is a beast of an option for extremely heavy users. If you think you might want to do gaming on the macbook pro (not many people do though) it's basically the only option, but for photo editing it's definitely not a necessity. The i9 will be the fastest CPU, the performance increase isn't amazing compared to the 2.2ghz or 2.6ghz if you're doing long intensive tasks due to the thermal limitations, but it will be faster. I personally went for the 2.6ghz, 32gb RAM, 1TB SSD, Radeon pro 560X which is more than enough for most people, including editing 4k footage. However if price isn't an issue, feel free to go for the i9 vega 20, there's probably no better portable laptop on the market (some argue the xps 9570, but obviously you won't have macOS).
Stephen Browne thanks for the very detailed answer. So if I understand you correctly skip the Vega and also the i9. I already thought that the Vega would be a slight overkill but considered the i9. I read that the i9 boost in performance as you said is minor but the heat can be an issue and then - in a laptops shell - the performance gains are not tremendous. I also read that the combination with the Vega 20 is then heat wise better (due to architecture). I guess I will follow you lead and go with only additional ram and ssd from the top tier model
From your white balance dropdown you seem to be editing a JPG image. What differences (if any) would be appropriate when working with a RAW image? How about saving your final settings as a Preset, which can then be used as a starting point for other similar images.
Ian Wilkinson This is a TIFF file, which is similar to a RAW file format, but there is a huge difference in a RAW file vs JPEG. From an editing perspective you’ll be able to push a RAW file much further with cleaner results than a JPEG as RAW captures much more tonal information in a scene. Regarding the preset - that’s a great idea to save time and to just get the winter edit going faster.
Great video. Snow scenes are always the toughest. You have to get rid of that sound affect for each tip, its more annoying than helpful, just my thoughts though.
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What’s your top Winter Photo Editing Tip?
It should have be cool tones in it.
start by shooting in RAW
@@priyanshjig yeah I also love to have a blue tone on my winter photos
@@mvirlios3855 👍
Mark walking away is always a good tip. Not just in editing photos but from any decisions you may have to make. Because you will always see it differently later.
Kevin Goosie 100% agree👍
I went to a park today and took photos of people skating! Im so happy with the results. Thank you for the tips!
What a great tutorial. I have always struggled with snowy scenes, I will try your method this winter. Thanks keep up the good work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the great tips Mark. I just re-watched this video before starting to edit my pics winter 2022-23.
Great video Mark...Tip #1...never even thought about that!
Thanks Bill! Appreciate you watching.
Mark, Thanks for the lesson. I have a lot to learn about Lightroom.
This it's a VERY GOOD class. Thanks Mark!
Awesome information. Just love winter scenes and these tips are great.
Regina Oster Thank you! Winters my favorite with Fall coming in as a close second.
This was super helpful! I learned a lot for editing all types of photos in general!
Alicia Hall Glad to hear it Alicia!
that's an amazing video, thank you! very helpful
Great video mate, this really improved my photos of animals in the snow.
Here again to watch your editing which will help me once again edit a snow photo hohoho! Happy New Year Mark! (Thank you RUclips again
I had a winter waterfall photo I had been trying to edit and was really struggling with, and this video was soo helpful!
Thank you so much this video really helped a lot. Hope you are staying safe.
Thanks a lot! I've never edited winter landscapes before so watching your video gave me a good start!
This is great ! thanks
Nice tips. For what it's worth, where I live it's winter for half the year, and I've come to rely heavily on Dehaze. At first I was put off because it adds blue and darkens the shadows considerably, but that can easily be counteracted by some of your other tips like desaturating the blue channel, etc. I'm finding it's actually a better starting point than anything else and does the best job of recovering texture and shadows in the snow.
whafrog Many thanks! Love the Dehaze tool, but you’re right it can really crush your shadows and cool off your image, but when done delicately it can be amazing!
Extremely helpful tutorials, thank you for the great content!
Long Yang Glad to do it! Thanks so much!
Excellent tips! Love the alt blacks and whites thing 👍👍
Never heard of the first one but that’s huge!!
ANIMAL DUO That’s a super helpful one for me as well👍
The blue sky was so much nicer in the original though. After changes it looks very washed out. Any way to save the sky, but still making the rest of the changes you did?
Gabriel Klappenbach for sure👍 That could definitely be done.
Great advice Mark, I learnt something today and that is good!
Phil McNamara Excellent! That’s great to hear Phil!
Thank you!!
Great Video's Mark. New to Lightroom CC but these videos are really helpful, Thanks
Thanks for making this video Mark. I was losing inspiration with my shots from recent ski holiday but these tips have really helped improve the quality of my edits.
Ewan Anderson Glad to do it Ewan!
Top tips there Mark. Having just edited a snowy picture, I wish I'd seen this before! Most of my snowy photos feature just a dusting of snow, but I did find it way more difficult when the scene was largely snowy. Bookmarked for future reference! 👍
Julian Baird - Landscape Photography Thanks Julian - Appreciate ya watching!
Nice advice at the end dude thanks it’s soo hard to edit snow
Thank you for these great tips!
Awesome Video..
The tips are great , thank you. I am not so sure about the sound in between though. Thanks Mark.
Thanks Larry! Glad the video was helpful and I appreciate the feedback regarding the transition sounds as well so thank you for that.
great tutorial! thanks
mark dalbello Glad you enjoyed it!
Good info, thanks!
Good advice, especially the walk away tip. This may be old school, but consider metering off an 18% grey card when shooting a winter scene with lots of snow. You will be guaranteed an accurate exposure, if an accurate exposure is what you want for a starting point. Another old school technique is to use an incident light meter if you can get into the scene. Camera light meters are just not very good at metering off snow.
Jon Barnard Thanks Jon! Glad you enjoyed the video! Great tip with regards to the grey card - thanks for that!
Mark I have been trying to teach my 14 daughter how to edit photos because she loves to take pictures. Since, I had no idea what I was doing I have been using your videos. We started with your 7 steps for every video and have moved on to this one. It has been a blast learning with her and we have completely changed the way we look at photo editing. Thank you for your videos.
Mark, you consistently deliver fantastic tips in a clear, concise style. The simple tip of changing background color is making an enormous difference in my editing already. After staring at the screen for a long time, it's often difficult to tell what's really white or cream or bluish anymore. Thank you!
Adara Jennifer Very kind of you to say - Thank you! That’s one of my favorite tips - it’s helped me out a ton over the years.
Useful editing tips, Mark. The walk away is a good general practice. No snow yet in our part of NC, but am willing to forego it. Surprised that for a digital guy you have an analog wall clock on back wall. Did you intentionally create the leading line footprint path right up to the tree in the pic? Reminds me of the visual gag where footprints mystereously diverge around the tree.
Paul M Thanks Paul! I’m hoping the NC snow will be coming soon. Yep, those are my footprints - my first composition was beyond this tree but then noticed all the wind blown snow on this tree - quickly changed my subject at that point.
Great tips, thanks! But my WB has no + or - with temp/tint. Only fe 6500 temp and 0 tint. Any idea how to change it, so I can apply your tip?
ManjaWeijers Thank you! Are you using Lightroom?
@@MarkDenneyPhoto yes, it is up to date
ManjaWeijers Odd - I’m not sure why you don’t see +- values when you adjust the tint.
When you're editing RAWs you see the Kelvin number for the color temperature, with JPGs you get +/-
@@Noksus ah thanks!!
Hi Mark, thanks for your video. Extremely useful. One question. When I changed to Auto in while balance the number changed to 7500 and when I do half of this the image becomes blue. Who so?
I had the same problem. Looks like he edited a jpg, not a raw file. Temp and tint for raw files in Lightroom sliders preset to Kelvins. With jpg's its a scale from -100 to +100. Wondering then, Mark, how does this step apply to raw files? Thanks.
Lost hundreds of edits in Lightroom this Christmas. I have a Fuji XT3 and now use Capture One. Hope the edits are similar?
dude. nice shirt!
I'm seeing this a year late but this is super helpful! Thank you!
Hey Marc / Everyone, this is not the correct video to post it but I wanted to ask it anyway. I’m currently in the process of getting my new MacBook Pro 15” which will replace my mid 2012 (main and only workstation). I though of going with the big basic model and additionally adding the following:
2,9 i9
32gb ram
Vega 20
1tb SSD
I have Intensively googled about what’s needed / important but wanted to ask the community additionally. I edit photos via Lightroom / luminar. I’ve read mixed things regarding the i9 (Heat) and I’m not sure if the Vega 20 is really necessary for my tasks (although what I understood is i9 and Vega 20 have a way better heat management combined). I’ll get a good discount so price is not the primary driver although I don’t want to throw money out of the window.
Feedback is mich appreciated!
I wish I could be of more help here, but this is a bit out of my wheel house. I say get the fastest coolest laptop possible:)
Maybe anybody will stumble over it and can comment on it. But I like your answer 😅
@@Kohizzzle The Vega 20 graphics card is generally geared towards more graphics intensive tasks, like modelling, creating effects (Adobe/Apple Motion) and some heavy duty 4k video editing.
The Vega 20 is a beast of an option for extremely heavy users. If you think you might want to do gaming on the macbook pro (not many people do though) it's basically the only option, but for photo editing it's definitely not a necessity.
The i9 will be the fastest CPU, the performance increase isn't amazing compared to the 2.2ghz or 2.6ghz if you're doing long intensive tasks due to the thermal limitations, but it will be faster.
I personally went for the 2.6ghz, 32gb RAM, 1TB SSD, Radeon pro 560X which is more than enough for most people, including editing 4k footage. However if price isn't an issue, feel free to go for the i9 vega 20, there's probably no better portable laptop on the market (some argue the xps 9570, but obviously you won't have macOS).
Stephen Browne thanks for the very detailed answer. So if I understand you correctly skip the Vega and also the i9. I already thought that the Vega would be a slight overkill but considered the i9. I read that the i9 boost in performance as you said is minor but the heat can be an issue and then - in a laptops shell - the performance gains are not tremendous. I also read that the combination with the Vega 20 is then heat wise better (due to architecture). I guess I will follow you lead and go with only additional ram and ssd from the top tier model
TBH, I like bluish picture more for winter/cold environment pictures, rather than white.
From your white balance dropdown you seem to be editing a JPG image. What differences (if any) would be appropriate when working with a RAW image?
How about saving your final settings as a Preset, which can then be used as a starting point for other similar images.
Ian Wilkinson This is a TIFF file, which is similar to a RAW file format, but there is a huge difference in a RAW file vs JPEG. From an editing perspective you’ll be able to push a RAW file much further with cleaner results than a JPEG as RAW captures much more tonal information in a scene. Regarding the preset - that’s a great idea to save time and to just get the winter edit going faster.
So basically, keep playing with the sliders and stop when you like it! All tips wrapped up into one.
Great video. Snow scenes are always the toughest. You have to get rid of that sound affect for each tip, its more annoying than helpful, just my thoughts though.
Now being this one a good pic I want to know how this photo is useful to you in terms of making money other than making tutorial or RUclips.
Priyanshu Kharb Thank ya! Glad you like it, but I actually haven’t made any money off of this photo.
Mark Denney OK. Not this one but others,how?? Guide me as I am willing to make here in India 😊😁.
@@Jagritischool I think this will make a good topic for an upcoming video.
Please loose the annoying sound between tips! Otherwise nice job