This is a great opportunity Nigel and very glad that this time you had one of the images in DNG format as my older version of Lightroom wouldn't process the NEF files 👍
From a learning perspective, would love to not only see the best edits, but maybe a few that were good except for 1 or 2 things that could have put it over the top.
Hi Nigel. I think this is a really useful exercise for people new to editing. However, I don't use Lightroom or Photoshop but Gimp with Nik plugins. Your raw filetypes aren't supported by Gimp so I am having to convert these to tiff first. Unfortunately this does seem to affect exposure/brightness so my starting images are not the same as your raw files . Is there any chance of sending out your files as tiffs (which seems to be supported by most post processing software) to start with or would these not be of high enough quality?
If you’ve been searching for years for a great educator this is your guy. Thank you for all the hard work you’re putting into this Nigel! Please make an online photography/editing/business course! Would love to support your work and continue learning from you.
Holy smokes!!! This is a game changer video for me, Nigel! Using a grad filter to cover entire image and then being able to use range masks is genius. This negates the use of PS in most cases unless preferred. Thank you for this
I agree. Blending two images together to get the waves you like, well, for me that's crossing the line between truth and a lie. You can dress up the truth but you cannot tell a lie.
Nigel, what I love about watching your videos is that you demonstrate and teach. Not like a lot of other photographers on RU-vid that are a lot of talk. Yours are truly educational! Thank You!
Great info on editing, will be putting some of the tips into use when I convalesce from cancer treatment. Looking forward to that, the editing not the other!
It’s always very special and enjoyable for me to listen and learn from you Nigel, I admit that I play around with my colours, I’m learning slowly, I’m allowed to go slow, I turned 75 a couple of weeks ago, I’ll put on my go faster boots. Keep up your teaching ideas Nigel. Thank you.
I work in VFX for Hollywood features so I am used to changing images around quite a bit, but it made me laugh when you said it doesn't really matter that the final image doesn't need to look like the original colorwise (my paraphrasing). There are arguments at present, with AI, and forever I suppose for photography in general, about what constitutes "a photograph" ... in particular the "authenticity of the images" and it is amazing to me how one side or t'uther justifies their particular vision on what are the parameters for image manipulation.
Thank you for demystifying many of the terms and techniques used by professionals. Also thank you for taking the time to offer alternatives for technical solutions. After all it is about the composition and impression of the photo and how to get there by any reasonably artistic means possible.
Thank you very much. Just being able to see a RAW file from a photographer such as yourself which allows me to compare your starting point to my starting point has been invaluable.
Nigel - this is probably one of the best LR/ACR/PS tutorials that I’ve ever seen! Each idea is very clear and explained with detail. I learned more from this than from a lot of the courses that I purchased. Thanks for these wonderful tips. I will tell all my photo buddies to have a look.... stay well
Thanks Nigel . Hope the back gets better soon. For local adjustments in LR ...the adjustment brush is a go to for me ..probably more than grad and radial filters .
Quick keyboard shortcuts for some of the stuff in Photoshop: you can click Shift+Backspace to bring up the fill options, and use content aware from there. Ctrl+D is deselect!
Hi Nigel..I am french and i love all your photos and knowledges. You are a big inspiration for me and hope to become professional one day like you are...Take care.
Thanks Nigel. I got excited when I saw the edit of the Blending of the 2 Wave photos. Also the lightroom tips were amazing. Appreciate. Hope you are not too frustrated with Lockdown. Time for learning!
Awesome set of tips and strategies for using Lightroom and Photoshop more effectively for landscape photos! Thanks for sharing some of your inspirational raw photos to experiment with to help us put these tips into action!
Excellent video. The Option/Alt key is so useful (in LR) that I've programmed it into the rocker switch for my Wacom Pen. I've used it like this for so long now that's it's almost a reflex action to press the rocker with my thumb during any step of the editing process.
Love your images. This vlog had great tips but the real key and challenge for me is to have the vision to say change the color balance or to add the dehaze. To be able to foresee creatively is a strength you have.
Great video! To me and I maybe a minority I prefer not editing at all other then just crapping.To me its important the honesty of the image.Once photoshop or lightroom takes over it becomes artificial.I am sure ton of people will disagree but its just me I like purity of the ART.
Wow! I was inspired by your tip on opening two files as layers in photoshop and using the brush tool and mask, to create one spectacular image and I’m pleased with my successful resulting new image, bringing a couple of my ‘ok’ images into another realm... I love learning new things and putting them into practice and feel we are all capable of learning new things, no matter what age, or what our level of photography we are at, or how long we’ve been capturing images. Thank you so much for your videos, Nigel.
You rock. You are my favourite photographer. I am humbled and grateful for your help in my quest to be a great photographer some day. Your knowledge blows me away. Thank you thank you thank you.
As an almost exclusive user of Capture One Pro, I would like to add that most of these techniques can be done in C1 as well. Only image stacking must be done elsewhere, for which I use Pixelmator. Great video. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this video :) .. It`s just amazing to find such talented persons "by accident" . I`m trying just to start to get my work from just being a part-time-photographer to youtube in german, what makes it eben more difficult due to the limited audience, but seeing talented people like you just inspires me to keep going :)
Fantastic video Nigel! Absolutely crammed with useful stuff which you probably could have got away with spreading over numerous videos, kudos and thank you.
Thanks for the video tips and for the opportunity to edit your photos! I'm having quite a good time, and it's a fun challenge to edit based on my perceptions of your intent in the image. Fun!
Thank You for an amazing tutorial. Just realised that I will have a month of work, to really absorb it. To me and a game changer on the use of PS and LR, plus the coaching aspects of the tutorial are just mind blowing. Wow! Cheers
Greatly appreciate this well presented information. And bonus on the Lightroom short cuts in newsletter 🤗 All will help me learn and grow in this craft. Cheers 👌✨
Fantastic video, Nigel! Thank you so much, whenever I feel lazy or demotivated with photography, all it takes is to see your videos to recharge my enthusiasm batteries again and go out and shoot. Since we're not on lockdown down here in Paraguay, I'll go to a botanical garden and put into practice your advice. 😀
Excellent points, all, Nigel. On the editing challenge, it's one thing to edit a photo; it's another to have a concept of what you want the edit to reveal. That's what I keep tripping over. Looking forward to seeing the results next week. Maybe I'll try the one after that.
That was such a useful and timely video, Nigel. You explained the range mask and importing 2 photo's into PS so well. I'm sitting down to try out your tips right now.
Thanks for these videos Nigel, they're always helpful and informative 😊 can't wait to have another go at editing my own foggy trees, thanks for the ideas!👍👌
Thanks for another cracking video - good stuff! Thanks also for the list of references to other topics, which is very useful. All the best to you & yours!
Tranquil beauty - my summary after the first 3 shots. Each of them shows a histogram that has "nothing" between LR's default black point and where raw photo data start, or between LR's white point and where raw photo data end ("reading" from left to right). Or both. In this case, shifting the black point up, white point down, or both, might ruin the "tranquil beauty", but it is something I always look at. Generally in a virtual copy with alternative raw processing.
Great top level outline of key skills to master, along with the rationale to motivate investing the time and effort to master them, and links to further resources in the notes to boot. Thanks!
Love these videos, your very good with explanations. I’m still learning all this terminology. Love taking photos but have no clue about processing in Lightroom.
That blending was incredible, such an amazing result with little effort. I know you would want to take more time for a final edit but your quick edit there still looked great.
Another great video. I was unaware of the align layers function! When did they add that? Your flow explanation is great. I wish I'd heard it when I was still teaching.
Great video as usual! quick question... I am familiar with the range mask features... I just wanted to make sure why you use it in combination with the grad filter... using the grad filter gives you the specific area where you can then apply the range mask...? thank you!
