In this tutorial, I walk you through a series of masking techniques in Lightroom to tame the exposure challenges of a mountain sunset scene.

Light shapes your story, and Lightroom gives you the tools to mold it. Mastering Light & Shadow will teach you into how to read the light in your photos, control it with intention, and shape it to match the story you want to tell.

Learn how to transform a flat, backlit photo into a striking, powerful image by shaping light and shadow. In this live edit, I’ll show you how to use Lightroom’s masking tools—and why selective brightening and darkening makes all the difference.

A handful of local adjustments seemed enough to guide the eye toward a forgotten doorway—until curiosity pushed the edit further. Join me as I shape light and shadow, exploring “what if” moments that transformed the mood of this abandoned whaling station.

When you use a series of masks to shape light and shadow, you control the visual narrative of your photo. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show a the series of small changes that guides the viewer to a village at the valley floor of Sacred Valley, Peru.

When you take command of light in your edits, you take command of the story your image tells.

Revisit a 10-year-old photo with me and see how much can change when you focus on visual storytelling over time. By reshaping light and refining tone, you’ll see how an image becomes more natural, stronger, and more compelling with a more mature vision.

An unscripted black and white edit, shaping a foggy morning of boats into a high key, dreamlike scene. From raw frame to final image, it’s all about light, mood, and letting the photograph lead the way.

Blue color cast in your landscape photo? Get natural color back without losing your mood with just two adjustments.

Add a soft twilight glow across your mountain scenes using targeted color curves and a precise gradient band in Lightroom.

Master the tone curve to shape light, enhance contrast, and bring intentional depth to your black and white photos.

The new Distraction Removal tool in Lightroom is a nice addition and a great timesaver for a lot of images - but not all of them. I have a few tips for you to get the most out of removing people from your photos and recognizing when you’ll want to guide generative AI with your own hand.