Behind the edits, Wildflowers and Waterfalls 

A small glimpse into the world of the genius Nick Page. So much thought and effort goes into making amazing images. Just when you think you are getting the hang of things something like this comes along to snap you back to reality and the fact you don't really know a whole lot. Thanks for sharing Nick.

It’s always a good day when there is a Nick Page video.... or podcast ! I hope you’ll record one your boyzz in Scotland !

Really great video. Often times videos or tutorials focus on the steps necessary, but the most important thing in teaching is to convey the thinking process and the reasons why each decision made. Adding a curves layer is easy, but knowing when and why is way more useful.

Damn, killer shots Nick!

So nice to wake up and watch this video! I am missing your presence on RU-vid!

Love the flower photo.

Very Nice....Thanks for sharing Nick!

Nick Page, the man, the myth, the legend. I love the flower image and showing us how you processed it. You made my day when I ran into you at Death Valley. I saw the Tahoe pull up in front of me and knew instantly it was yours after watching the roof top tent video. Looking forward to your next videos from Scotland.

You are a true artist. Brilliant work.

Thanks Nick, post processing is not my thing, but you definitely show how it works and give me motivation.

Very interesting video Nick!

I appreciate this video for the why of theses edits. In the past couple of years, the question (why?) has really shaped my photography. Why am I taking this shot? Why am I interested in this particular scene. Even before I click the shutter, the why of it has begun to inform what my vision is for my final image. Great video sir.

Beautiful images Nick. Enjoyed watching this very much. Have a great time in Scotland!

Great video, really helpful. Love the images too.

Great shots and I appreciate the thoughts behind the processing and the way you needed to anticipate what you wanted to do in post and then captured that data in the field.

Really liked this video and the behind the scenes thinking and how you create your work.This is a big help.

Well explained. Photoshop can make a camera / lens combo into a super unit that you simply can’t buy. I think too many people see multi layer composites and think it’s super altering the image when as you prove here, it’s just tightening up the composition. Nice video Nick!

Great video - seeing how/why you carefully constructed your final images using in-the-field planning and step-by-step layers has been really illuminating.

Thank you, Nick! This was super interesting and helpful to see your editing process. Beautiful images, kudos!

Very Informative Nick,

have a brilliant trip when you come over to us here in Scotland.remember you are coming into midge season if you are travelling to the highlands and islands.

Glad I found your page. Very inspirational. I just moved to Oregon, and they're also very relevant. You and i are attracted to very similar subjects, and are one of the few youtubers I can turn to to get ideas to take my own work to the next level and beyond. Have fun in Scotland!

Really, really interesting ... And maybe one of the best videos I've seen for showing why Photoshop has its place even for what appears to be the smallest of changes.

Well done, Nick. I especially liked your explanation of recreating a scene to reflect how you remember it looking while you were there. Our brain has a natural tendency to cancel out what is distracting about a scene and enhancing what attracts us. I remember you speaking about this on our Death Valley trip. It has changed my approach to post processing so that not only does it recall what my mind's-eye saw but the feeling/emotion of that experience as well. Thank you for that. Safe travels -

Really excellent point you made about not being able to evaluate images on the back of the camera LCD. Many times I've found what I thought was the shot in field wasn't at all and also wished I'd taken more photos with different shutter speeds, focus points, etc. I love how you show all the minor changes, it really makes the image "sing" in the final outcome. Not surprised you were a musician once upon a time, very similar in many ways to photography. Have a great trip, looking forward to your videos from Scotland.

Great video Nick, very much appreciate your work. Enjoy your adventure over in Scotland.

Beautiful! The most interesting is how you think when you see the scene and what you can do to bring it home to your computer. Big thanks and waiting for more:)

Great video Nick love your work can't wait to see the group trip to Scotland

Superb! Love your studio lighting too.

You are a true photographic artist! love your work and how you get the final images. Looking forward to another episode with You, Adam, Gavin & Thomas in Scotland. I've only been there once and loved it, must go back some day. Cheers!

Great video Nick, looking forward to learning more about Lumenzia. I'm glad future Nick is happy.

Great intro to your workflow ~ makes me realise how much there is to learn in making good photos great.

Very valuable “big picture” of the “what’s and why’s” of your post processing. It seems a very unique form of workshop you might offer is a review of a group’s websites, and an assessment of their capturing/composition approaches and then an assessment of their post-processing approach and technique. This would be a smaller class where each member can benefit from your review of all class member’s work. This is what we do in my photo club ... doing this with your input and being able to see what others do in more detail would really expand your student’s vision, creativity, and application of today’s capture and post-processing tools. Just a thought ...

Wow Nick! Its Great to See your workflow! Gives me lots if information on how you work! Thanks !!

Fantastic Nick, I’m early days with luminosity masks but they are blowing me away. Great to see your image come to life and pop! Really enjoyed, a pleasure to watch.

thanks Nick!!

Hi Nick, I just stumbled across your channel. This was such a great video! Subtle, step by step changes have had a powerful effect. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Great video. Thanks.

Great video! I think I try to do too many changes in just a few layers. I need to try doing more baby steps in more individual layers like you do. Thanks for your knowlwdge sharing!

Please do more of these.

Great video, thanks Nick, all the best on your trip!

Nice photos and beautiful environments 👌🏻

I never understood why people ask about the photoshop thing. It’s ART.

Love this video! I appreciate the work you put into your images!

Super talented! Regardless of knowing photoshop or Lightroom, you have an eye for “how” you’re going to edit while looking at dark flat raw files.

omg I've ben following you on instagram forever. Can't believe I found you here on youtube as well. Great stuff man! Love your work!!!

Very interesting, keep doing these types of videos. Have fun in Scotland!

Very helpful knowing your tonal reasoning behind the two images. Thanks

Very informative Nick and absolutely perfect images, well done!

Super useful video. For me I know the Technics in Photoshop but I find trouble imagining how the finished shot is going to look like. Was good to see you go in that direction. Thanks for sharing man

Cracking. Really enjoyed this. Hope you enjoy Bonnie Scotland - can’t wait to see the output!

Very interesting! Thanks.

great video. thank you!

very nice edits!

I can't wait for Scotland videos man 😍 your videos in the Canadian Rockies were the best, don't tell Thomas and Adam 😉😂

Very beautiful images Nick. Great work on editing. Greetings from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Love it

Thank you for this, Nick.

awesome Nick really enjoyed this :) ( always enjoy your vids / images) coming over here to the uk :) I shall enjoy the future vids! wishing you good light

RU-vid needs to give your channel more priority and get the higher resolution versions calculated faster. At 360p (all they have done right now), it's no where near enough to follow along with your high res focus stacking. Will try back in an hour. Looks good so far :-)

Awesome vid nick. Any chance you have or could make a tutorial on how to focus stack and exposure blend. Which to do first and such

Great video Nick. Quick question - I know you wanted to stay away from technique in this video, but Ive done almost all of your tutorials and I don't remember any where you did both a focus stack and an exposure blend. Do you complete the focus stack and then dual process that stacked image to get the exposure blend? (if you have a tutorial where you went through his then just point me in that direction).

Nick, Please if you would be so kind to dedicate 10-15 seconds for your shot by panning and zooming slowly. It's a pity having to see this in 4k and getting only 5second of the most important thing I'm watching the video: The shot! Love from Hamburg ❤️

Beautiful images, and interesting to see abit of your workflow, impressive!=)

Excellent video.

Nick, when you say you exposure blend first then focus stack does that mean that, In the field you are creating a new set of focus stacked images with each exposure value? I’m still confused on this. So -2EV through +1EV if separated by one stop would each need a set of 7 focus stacked images right? I must be wrong because if they were the case I’d think you’d stack all the sets of images and then exposure blend them together, no? Thanks for sharing your skills man, it’s really generous that you show us your process down to the layers you use

Very good, interesting and educational video! :) Glad I found your channel. Keep up the good work :)

Cheers Nick. Highly motivational and inspirational. Too long I've tried to avoid spending long editing images but I'm asking myself why? And you made a perfect statement, you need to edit a raw shot to make it anything like real life. Looking forward to seeing what you produce when you are up here in Scotland.

Thanks, Nick! Seeing the motivation for your edits is very helpful for me. There seem to be a lot of different "styles" among those making "landscape images" with some moving into what I consider "fantasy" and others like you and Thomas trying to recreate the way you emotionally reacted to a scene when you were there. I'm not a fan of adding elemenst that never existed or creating light where it didn't exist in the shot. (I've seen a couple of images from people where it is maybe blue hour with the sun well behind a mountain or whatever and they the flowers in the foreground have plenty of light and color saturation. Those images don't pass my "reality sniff test" and therefore aren't something I care for. But I don't see you taking it quite that far. You're more like a painter who is choosing to emphasize a scene while still allowing us to believe that the scene is real and that we would walk into it. Now that I understand the motivation, I'll go check out your tutorials. Have a great time in Scotland. The vlogs that came out of the last time you four were together were a lot of fun and also educational. Hoping for similar stuff out of a very different setting.

Cool video

Very cool and informative, thanks for sharing.

Damn, that is a helpful video! Thank you!

One day I’ll grow up and use photoshop as well. As you do! I’ve yet to make edits I like. So far I’ve kept it simple in Lightroom classic.

All the big youtubbers getting together~

Thanks so much Nick! I look foward to see some your content from Scotland! ;) Just one question.. about graphic tablet...some suggestion? Bye man!

i really like the waterfall picture....the only thing which is looking a bit odd there, is the difference in white balance/ temperature between foreground water and background water. Maybe the foreground is only a tiny bit too cold, blueish.

Thanks Nick!.. great video 👏👏 Do you just blend the sky into one of the images (the one focused on the background) or all of them before stacking???

Omg...... i need a one on one photoshop lesson....

Nick could you explain how to take a picture similar to this where I can do a fast shutter to freeze blowing leaves but slow to smooth the water.?I'm not sure how I would do that keeping the same exposure

How can I do focus stacking and exposure blending at the same time in Photoshop Could you please make a tutorial for that

Nice images Nick! Just out of curiosity, how much editing time was involved per image for “future Nick” ? Looking forward to seeing the various upcoming videos from the four of you. Cheers!

I like your style on these edits. About how long did it take you to edit the flower shot?

Nick can you tell me about the workflow when working with focus stacking and exposure blends. Which do I do first?

i just watched one of your night time astro videos and i have a question, im new at photography so bare with me. I noticed you said to lower your apature to wide open and as low as possible, example 2.8. but doesnt that also give you a very shallow depth of field???? im trying to capture far away stars so wouldnt i want a very high f stop like 22??? i realize you need alot of light at night hence the wide open apature, but doesnt that also blur out the distant objects???? please answer and thanks!!!!

"Stop trying to get it right. Just take the picture." - Sally Mann

Hi Nick beautifull image this is! i have a quick question: do you dodge and burn zooming in and being carefull where to adjust or do you use luminostiy masks for that purpose? enjoy your trip to Scotland, we went to Northern Ireland just after you were there but we weren't that lucky with the weather, Scotland is my #1 place to go can't wait for the results! all the best,Marco.

Beautiful photos and impressive edits! Have you done a tutorial demonstrating your dodge/burn technique?

With LR now incorporating luminosity and color masks in its radial, graduated, and brush filters, could you do most of this color and light editing (other than focus and exposure stacking & Orton effect) in Lightroom instead of Photoshop?

Hi Nick, thanks for the video, very informative! Curious, after all the work that went into getting these photos and the work that goes into the Post edits, what would you charge for these photos if you were to sell them?

Just curious, do you teach the "different shutter speeds" on workshops? I understand the focus stacking, but have never worked much with different shutter speeds in the field, for the same shot. Hope that came out ok. Great vid by the way!

Wow, I'm not sure I could manage to combine so many layers. I noticed you're using a pen: got any recommendations?

Nick I generally really love your work and also really enjoy your videos and podcasts. I have to say however that sometimes, for my eyes, your photos lean a tinge too much to the side of over-processing. Again that is just my take and in general I really like your work and all that you do. Thanks for your many contributions to the photographic community!

Thanks Nick. Great to hear to your thought process on why u edited the photos that way. Always interesting to see someones workflow on an image. Thanks again for sharing. Looking forward to your trip to Scotland with the others. I'm always photographing the highlands of Scotland, lucky to live there. If u have a spare 5 mins check out my channel lol cheers mate

Love this, Nick. I'd love to participate in one of your workshops. I'm always inspired by how much thought and planning you put into you videos. You inspired me to up the content on my RU-vid channel. Thank you 👍

Looking forward to seeing the gang in Scotland! How about getting Nigel Danson to join in?

Hi! Why do you prefer dodge & burning in PS before LR?

Almost got emotional there huh :D

Hey Nick, how do you save such large files from PS into Lightroom? Thanks

It's a good thing I wasn't playing a "dodge-burn" drinking game!

Video is kind of blurry ???