Found this channel 2-3 months ago and got hooked on the love of photography/outdoors. Started watching from the very first video and finally caught up today. I have been meaning to get out and use my camera for something other than family photos for a while now and this channel has definitely inspired. Planning a weekend away with the misses and already found a few hikes that should result in some decent shots (even if they don't they seem like great hikes!).
Thomas what makes your channel one of the best is your field videos with follow up videos showing how you process the images you made. It completes the process for your viewers. Learning about the range mask is great tool to learn about. Thanks
as a person that always using lightroom, I definitely need this, and just realised that it can do this kind of magic. many thanks for bringing this one up, Tom!
I've just started using the technique shown in this video on a long exposure shot. Well Lawd 'Tunderin, it was absolutely brilliant when trying to deal with exceptionally bright lights on a bridge on a very black night. Without using this Luminescence Mask, I couldn't bring out details of the dark water and sky as the lights would be completely blown out. What a difference!! Thanks for bringing this to our attention....works like a charm.
I mostly take images of woodland in tricky lighting conditions. At dawn, during bad weather or in the middle of the night. This will save me countless of hours of editing in the future. Time is very precious commodity as a father of three. Thank you very very much for bringing it up. If your travels takes you to my neck of the woods some day in the future ( the arctic bit of Sweden) I'd shake your hand and buy you a pint of prefered beverage.
I remember when these changes were announced but completely forgot they existed. Thanks Thomas for the reminder and demonstrating some good examples of their usefulness. Very helpful video :)
Thomas....thanks for this very useful and easy to use tip. I soooooo like your level of PP. There are just so many landscape photographers that are over processing their images.....at least to my taste. It is pretty hard to out-do mother nature and when you try using a computer it falls short. One of the main reasons that I follow your channel more than most is your level of PP. Please keep it up!
as C1 user - this is a truly good tip . and a reason to watch how all roads may lead to Rome if one has a good map. I never thought about using luma for balancing out "horizontal" polafilter-like artifacts. Edit - stupidity is to blame the tool when one already got it but did not know enough to utilize it. I am saying this as one who used to take images BW for a decade when growing up - and being fooled by color contrast every single time. To the extent that now with digital I tend to "see" color contrast far harder than tonal contrast ending up with pushing saturation rather than luma to make an impact. This brief lesson made me remember that luma is something that works with BW - color-.contrast is implying the color wheel. I must remember both to balance or "pop" what I try to do.
Fantastic! I updated my Lightroom last week and just hadn't had time to check out the new stuff. And I had a photo that I wasn't happy with that needed this exact thing. Thank you!!!
Very helpful video. I twigged into the colour masking just after it came out. Did not understand how the luminosity masking worked. Extremely instructional and very beneficial. Thanks for taking the time to point this out.
The first image actually looked fantastic in black and white when you were applying that mask. Very dreamy and interesting, I prefer it to the colour version. I'm sure you cold've made it even better by making a dedicated B&W edit and playing with the tones a bit
It is very similar to the HSL secondary in premiere pro.. I came across this feature today but I didn't know quite well how to use it, now i know, thanks Tommy 👍
This is a great feature I didn't know existed. Of course most landscape photographers know how to do this is Photoshop but it requires more work and the more processing you can do while the image is in RAW format (before baking it to Profoto RGB for the TIF or PSD) the better the final result.
I don’t use Lightroom , but Capture One also has this feature and I didn’t think of using it in this way. So thanks for the tip that ranges further than just Lightroom
This is also very useful when you have used a graduated ND filter on camera and something (like some tree branches) intrudes into the filter area, which is sometimes unavoidable. Makes it easy to correct in post.
I wasn’t aware of this feature either. What would also be useful would be a brush that could be used to selectively “switch off” parts of the gradient filter. That would be useful around mountain peaks (as in the example), buildings and the like.
Videos like these once in a while are really helpful, we got to watch you set up and take the image and then learn a tip for the editing. I will remember this one. The effect on the trees is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to explain this.
I agree, very useful tool, I use it all the time. I have not used the Colour mask either, but I have a sunset where the pink is over saturated, so It could be useful on that image
Hi! If you hold Alt or Option while draging the range sliders you will instantly see the mask in B&W and so where the effect will apply. It's much more handy than turning on and off the "show luminance mask" button
My editing skills haven't always been the absolute best. This feature is a real game changer, played around with some older files and was left with a far superior image. Great video. Great tips, thanks a tonne
Hey Tom, Totally agree - Range Mask in LR is brilliant. Also the pipette colour picker tool can be used to sample your area to affect by clicking an area or shift clicking multiple areas or drawing out a larger area - awesome. P.S anyone want to buy a 3 x set of soft and a 3x set of hard Lee ND Grad Filters 😉
Thanks so much for this, perfectly timed! I was out taking sunrise photos yesterday and the sky wasn’t as I hoped it would (cloud on the horizon blocking the sun). Looking at my images I had a pretty boring sky to the right, and on the left a dark cliff coming down diagonally from the corner. I was disappointed and couldn’t work out how to improve the sky using a graduated filter effect without darkening the cliffs...now I know! Perfect :)
You know I've been using Lightroom classic all this time despite there being a new Lightroom CC - glad to see I am not the only one still using the old one.
Thanks Thomas, I've had a lot of problems with graduated filters in LR as they were just a blanket fix. Now its possible for me to selectively reduce the filter where it's not needed is perfect!
I’d heard of it but thought it was going to be something more complicated. Thanks for demonstrating how simple it is, and how effective. Right, I can think of an image or two that now need attention
So far YOU taught me how to focus stack(which I use ALL the time now)...and I also now use, what I call, the "Heaton" crop (6 X 17) for my landscapes and now this! WOW! Definitely, I can see that I will be using the Range Mask!! I have the West Maui Mountains which I always have an unbalanced sky due to the sun setting behind the west side of the mountain. By the way, I think your Scotland trip was epic! Maybe your best trip? Watching your trek and what you had to deal with; well, just let me say that the images you came back with are simply BREATHTAKING! It was worth it all! Thanks so much for sharing.
A very powerful and underused tool is range masking and I am a great believer in going back to old images and doing a re -edit as I learn more and can apply more skills to an image, glad you have been up here in Scotland a bit recently, your workshop with Simon would have been brilliant I’m sure.
I've used this before when darkening skies above tree lines but I've never thought of using it to lift shadows. Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely be using it more.
Thanks for the tip Thomas, I already heard about it but never seen in the practice. And I love the image from the workshop with Simon, those trees are phenomenal! See you on Wednesday!
I really liked that photo in black and white the contrast was out of this world I know you worked hard on the colour but consider bnw for that mountain photo
When using this graduation filter and you want something to be cut out of the selection you can just click on the brush button, next to edit and new, and use the alt or option to remove them, or add areas. Also nice to know I think.
Thank you thank you thank you! I have come up with this certain situation plenty of times and now thanks to you I have another tool in my pocket to help me deal with it!
loved seeing the mountain image again as its amazing how your eye picks out some different detail. This time its the peak in the top left hand corner after you applied the range mask. To me it just seemed to pop more and accentuated the morning sun striking its side
Brilliant. I've been struggling with brightening trees without effecting the sky for ages. It's a real pain trying to paint between the branches but this tool looks excellent.
A great reason to upgrade from my old Lightroom 5.7! Thanks for a brilliant LR lesson. I like the new video format with the images screened again at the end too. All good stuff. Thank you.
Thanks Thomas I didn't know about this and have always hated the effect of the radial filter encroaching on areas where it was not wanted, enjoy your channel thank you.