A common theme with my photos from Utah is color correcting and brightening snow in shadowy areas. The masking tools in Lightroom make complex masking selections much easier.
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Improve your photos with a series of “visual nudges” to guide your viewer to your subject.
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Crafting a strong black & white seascape starts with choosing the right camera profile.
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Overcast skies aren’t always featureless swaths of gray. There are often nuanced midtones that we can accentuate in post-processing.
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It’s true that making mistakes is how we learn things. A misclick in Lightroom led to good fortune.
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I think the small, subtle adjustments made to images are very important - equally if not more important than the basic development.
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Removing distracting objects from a photo can leave behind artifacts or repeating patterns. There are a few techniques I use to clean those up.
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Dodging & burning are tried and true techniques to finish an image. Pair them with luminosity masks and you’ve got a powerful set of tools to shape your images.
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Adding a touch of softness to the sky is fast and easy. And effective, too!
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A pair of graduated filters helped me downplay the foreground and accentuate some natural patterns in the sand, leading my viewer into the scene.
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Post-processing is a lot of fun. I sure enjoy it. However, it’s not a cure-all.
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Processing a photo from Acadia National Park reminded me how much power we have right in the HSL controls.
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