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In this week’s episode, we discuss how you can go from beginner to pro with Lightroom in this one simple video. I'm currently in Menorca Spain teaching at an event and wanted to walk you through the edit of an image from the first location I took my group to. This specific photo edit is a great teaching example as I used radial filters in Lightroom to help enhance and shape the subtle light that was occurring from the rising sun. Light or lack there of is one of the things that can make or break your photograph and being able to shape and direct subtle light that is contained within your image is an incredibly useful skill to have, and in this video my goal is to help you do just that! I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.
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@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
⭐️QUICK QUESTION: Do you use more than one program to edit your photos?
@tilerman Жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, i've had the free edition of the Nik collection lurking in my computer for quite some time now and completely forgot about it until recently when a youtuber made a video on Color Efex Pro 4. I actually have never used it preferring Silver Efex Pro 2 (B&W) so dusted it off and have been trying it out and it's amazing software, really very very good indeed. Not a pro like yourself, just a keen amateur and i've been getting some great results. On a different note, been saving up for a new camera as my 8 year old D7100 has been taking a battering but instead splashed out on a calibrated BenQ monitor and wow, the difference is chalk and cheese between what i was using. I would recommend any newbie to look at their monitor before splashing out on new camera as i've realised that's where i was lacking. Going to stick with my faithful D7100 as i'm more than happy with it's output plus i don't have much spare cash! Thanks Mark sorry for my story. All the best mate and great tutorials.
@tjsinva Жыл бұрын
No, one is confusing enough. 🙄
@scothowe539 Жыл бұрын
I always start out with LR and finish with PS. On occasion I’ll use Topaz Studio 2. I still have Luminar 3 but I rarely use it.
@gregtowns549 Жыл бұрын
DXO Pure Raw, LR, Affinity Photo. Occasionally Luminar Neo.
@ddki9094 Жыл бұрын
Mostly lightroom but also photoshop. The two just work well together.
@pamreynolds2518 Жыл бұрын
I am learning so much from you! I’m just an advanced beginner in editing so I appreciate the way you explain things :)
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Love to hear this - thanks Pam!
@RoyceBair Жыл бұрын
Hi Mark! It was such a pleasure working with you at the Menorca PhotoPills 2023 Camp.
@scothowe539 Жыл бұрын
That Orton Effect might be a good action to create in PS.
@michaelmckeag960 Жыл бұрын
At 28k and counting perhaps not every landscape photographer yet but certainly a substantial fraction. I’m glad I tuned in, this is a truly informative tutorial. Coincidentally, yesterday I returned to work on post processing backlog from our workshop last October on the Oregon Coast. Now I will return to the task with additional strategies to experiment with. Thanks!
@arunvijayan6911 Жыл бұрын
Loved the way you taught the spilling of light at the horizon 👌 also, the fact u taught how we see the foreground with more clarity than background 🙌 thank u for the tutorial 👍
@timproffitt1508 Жыл бұрын
Watching your videos makes me realize I need more landscape photography! Thanks for the inspiration and sharing!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks Tim!
@lucacanever Жыл бұрын
Great tips and a very good example of working flow. Thank you Mark!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Great to hear you enjoyed it!
@marydean9900 Жыл бұрын
I really liked how you showed us how to selectively sharpen an image, super helpful! Thanks!
@joetagg1961 Жыл бұрын
That was an excellent edit!! I learned a bunch. Thanks!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@gregroberts875 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark!!! Love these process videos. You are a fantastic teacher!!! Thanks for sharing
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that - thank you Greg!
@brucesorrell3647 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for another stellar tutorial, Mark !! I just hope this is the start of a series for your style of teaching makes learning all these techniques easy and enjoyable. The fact that you always go beyond the "how" to use an adjustment by including the "why" you opt to do it. A great teaching technique to say the least. Slainte !
@chrishall6364 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark, that’s the simplest way of doing an Orton Effect I’ve come across!
@nevvanclarke9225 Жыл бұрын
I pretty much would edit the same way I probably wouldn’t have used the individual circular gradients. I would’ve just used a general mask across the bottom but that’s okay. I do like the fact that you highlighted the rock one of the things. Linear grads and circular grads are so good … It’s absolutely a game changer for landscape photography that we now have the ability to do this because it means we don’t have to get the exact perfect exposure across the image
@theresaclarke2638 Жыл бұрын
I just love your videos; amazing techniques explained in a down-to-earth human way. So refreshing! I learn so much from you. Thank you!!!
@HartponderJr Жыл бұрын
Thank you for not blasting through LR, good pace I can easily follow. Thank you.
@christopherspinzor3268 Жыл бұрын
Goosebumps - looks so cool! Thanks for sharing!
@hasanali948 Жыл бұрын
This and all your other tutorials are extremely helpful. Thank you so much.
@lucamendiola6103 Жыл бұрын
Your videos are simply, Great!!! just perfect... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
@helgioskarsson2315 Жыл бұрын
I love your videos and your explanations, just a joy to watch and quite therapeutic :) Thank you
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@rayasiala9375 Жыл бұрын
Very cool class! I enjoy your work, your videos are so to the point! I can’t wait to try it out!!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Ray!
@michealpociecha8351 Жыл бұрын
Nice job. Thanks so much. Enjoy you vacation.
@wds525 Жыл бұрын
6:00 this was an excellent tip! I use LR a LOT, have been for many years, but there's always something we don't know, because some of us are too careless, lazy, clumsy enough to read the "what's new" info (well, I'm speaking for myself). Therefore, quite a few excellent features go unnoticed. Hence why these videos are priceless. These tips you're teaching are so, so useful to improve our workflow and get even more impressive results, for beginners to long time users. Also, these are not just for landscape photographers. I am not. I'm an urban, street photographer (taking many photos in promenades with the sea as a background) who doesn't edit a lot my shots, as I like them to stay as faithful to the scene as it was taken, as much as possible, but using your tips allows me to give my photos that subtle extra touch, punch, boost that DO make an aesthetic difference, no matter how subtle. In BW images (my style of choice) these look so good. I should copy and paste this comment in every video of yours. Thank you so much for what you do in your channel, from content to the way you approach the matters in a clear, pedagogic, non-condescending way. Keep shining. Best regards from Portugal.
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for the kind comment - great to hear the videos are helpful and enjoyable!
@tomlitteral5738 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@MrAclare71 Жыл бұрын
Great video once again. Enjoy Spain. Love learning these tips and tricks
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks Adam!
@KingCovfefe Жыл бұрын
Always helpful to see alternate workflows to pick up new ideas. Thanks!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Totally agree!
@daveturney8125 Жыл бұрын
Superb Mark ...always learning from your vids 👌
@joerminer Жыл бұрын
Another great shot. When you used the plug-in to apply the Orton effect to just the highlights, could you have also used the blend-if slider in the layer properties to remove the adjustment from the shadows? Seems that would have a similar effect. Asking b/c I don’t have that plug-in.
@kolossimike Жыл бұрын
Yes, blend-if would work.👍
@bobfreephotography 11 ай бұрын
I had the exact same question. Now to figure out what the answer means. Thanks
@michaelt7320 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great and informative video, Mark, with lots to take from it. For me, the selective sharpening technique was especially useful.
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Great to hear this feedback Michael!
@robmeagher220 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for another great video!
@gregtowns549 Жыл бұрын
Great vid. Small changes can yield big results.
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks Greg!
@csvapeldoornjeugd3853 Жыл бұрын
Great video again, Mark ❤
@desgardner7169 Жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@dylangarcia3696 Жыл бұрын
This actually useful :)
@SurvivalRino Жыл бұрын
I, with dxo, had the gradiant mask
@riva7rau Жыл бұрын
This is a freaking awesome video! A ton of great information and techniques. And I appreciate that you have a LrC + PS workflow, and that in this example doesn't rely too heavily on PS, as I'm a definite PS beginner. All in all, much appreciated :)
@echoauxgen Жыл бұрын
One thing I always do before sunrise especially blue hour when only the camera sees the magenta sunlight and again as the sun is just above the horizon maybe the first 10 minutes is to bracket 5 @ +/- 2EV. In today's SW and cameras with greater dynamic range you get clear and real looking images not the old cartoon colors. A main reason is you get brighter light on the darkside of things like driftwood and the correct color of things like sand on the beach or trees/ bushes instead of silhouette of everything and also is what you actually saw. After the sun gets above the horizon you get a smaller sun that is not blown out and get sun rays also. The bottom line is you get 5 images to use as you please that you can never ever go back and get again!
@SP-xi4xc Жыл бұрын
Thank you for speaking your heart out always and bringing the hidden photographer out of individuals. The best and most important thing you said in this video is that " Walk away from your PC and reset your eyes ! "
@worldlightchaser Жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always.
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@bobrutan4735 Жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks Bob!
@steveh1273 Жыл бұрын
You choose 102 pixels, not 102 Mega pixels for the Gaussian blur. Would like to understand the radius of the blur better other than it is the standard deviation of the Gaussian function. Do you have a better explanation?
@Sasygrl31 Жыл бұрын
I learn something new every time! Watching you use Photoshop makes it seems less scary now. LOL.
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Ahhh that's good to hear Nikki!
@wbrucemcconnel Жыл бұрын
I appreciate the thoroughness of the approach, but honestly I think it's a lot more time spent that would really be worth it in the end. You can get to 90% of where you ended up withoput laboring through so many gradients and layers IMHO.
@martybeyer Жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, any chance you could show how to blur the highlights without using a plugin. Is it levels or curves? I can't seem to reverse engineer it in my head. Your results are fantastic and I'd love to experiment but don't have any plugins. Cheers and thanks for your videos, I truly enjoy them.
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
You'd have to build a luminosity mask just for the highlights in order to replicate what the plug in is doing
@bobfreephotography 11 ай бұрын
That would be a nice addition to the video or a future video explaining the exercise done natively in PS.
@bobfreephotography 11 ай бұрын
And ditto to the accolades. These are really great Mark 🙏🏼
@DaveKingMusic Жыл бұрын
Great video!
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave!
@MONTY-YTNOM Жыл бұрын
Is Lumencia a plugin ?
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Yes it's to make creating Luminosity Masks much faster and easier.
@MONTY-YTNOM Жыл бұрын
@@MarkDenneyPhoto Mmm the 'tutorials for it on their web site are 8 years old LOL do they update it ?
@omarelsheikh74 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing the amazing edit Mark .. Get some rest 😉
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Omar! Yes sleep time for me:)
@willbart1236 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos. Question- How long did it take you to become so fluid in FS and LR?
@FennezMarson Жыл бұрын
You should team up with Dan Becker for some almost look alike outdoor action 😀
@user-ow7jl2xv5d Жыл бұрын
I've watched (and loved) your videos for a while now, and lately I've been more and more disappointed to find out how much "photoshopping" goes into creating your final images. Not just you, but also the other "photographers" that I follow on youtube. Sometimes, your original image (what I call a true photograph) and your final image (what I call digital art) bear only a passing resemblance. I realize that "photographers" and "digital artists" have a lot of debate over the blurry line between the two. In fact, I believe that line is very distinct. If you are using Photoshop to process your images, then you are NOT a photographer but a digital artist. I mean, the real art of photography is to get it all right in the camera; what you do to enhance it (and correct mistakes) is clearly in the realm of art. Photography is the art of composing and capturing an image using the variables that your camera provides, i.e., shutter speed, f-stop, focus, iso etc. If you change any of this in post processing (which most software now allows you to do), then you are no longer a photographer. I have respect for digital artistry, but in my opinion, that is a completely different discipline than photography. A few days ago, I saw an artist take a "fairly decent" photograph, remove the foreground completely and replace it with an upside down image of the sky and mid-ground to create a reflection. He then adjusted the reflection to make it look a little bit different than the mid-ground and sky. The result was a gorgeous landscape image. But it was no longer the same photograph!! The Foreground had now become a gorgeous lake with a reflection! How can this be called photography? This is utter nonsense! Really?
@goranritterfeldt2608 Жыл бұрын
I liked specifically the sharpening effect. But why didn’t you expand the histogram to the right in the first step? Take care, Göran from Latvia
@chadpeterson2033 Жыл бұрын
Since you already have Lumenzia and the LR portion of this video was basically dodging and burning, do you have any videos where you just do all of this in PS?
@rogerhampton2844 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. I’m just learning to edit and to be honest would prefer not to. I’m always surprised by the minimal adjustments a pro makes. I’m definitely too heavy handed. I’m using Luminar Neo so there are lots of differences but the idea is the same. If only the results were :(
@robvercouteren Жыл бұрын
That was a great class you taught. The first thing i did when i woke up to prepare for the bus to go that spot was shooting the milky way from the balkony of the hotel in Cala Galdana. And thenwhen on location treated by this kind of light. What else could we wish for? Thanks for the great week. grtz \o/
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Rob - a great week indeed! Take care my friend!
@tonyb2760 Жыл бұрын
I start in Lightroom and end in Photoshop with TK 8.
@robertodiurno Жыл бұрын
Hey Mark! I have a quick question about panorama photography. Typically with panoramas, we stay fixed and rotate the camera around, and in LR we can select various projections that fit the image best (spherical, etc). I recently took a series of photos where I physically moved for each one. I had a drone looking at some buildings, and I moved the drone parallel with the buildings left to right, taking pictures at various intervals, facing them and never changing the camera - just the drone's location. I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself, the end result would be a very long photo of the series of buildings stitched together. However, in LR I'm having difficulty stitching it as it's not a "perspective" or "spherical" panorama, since I'm not rotating about a fixed point but rather moving the camera physically to obtain a very long panorama with the camera perpendicular to the buildings. Do you have any advice on softwares or techniques to stitch these photos together? Thank you!
@chrisburns4909 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps use the print module and select the photos you want in horizontal (or vertical) alignment and select a print page grid that has the correct number of columns (or rows). Then put each picture in the correct cell location and set the borders / edges to zero pixels. You should be then able to then print a new jpeg that has all your pixels for a super wide shot for further import / editing. This is if you only want to use LR Classic, versus Photoshop and it definitely helps if you can stay in alignment vertically from shot to shot, if you are doing a wide panorama. Hope this helps.
@echoauxgen Жыл бұрын
AH!! PTGui will stitch say the two images.
@corrijzebol4063 Жыл бұрын
What brand is that odd ball head at the start of this video? Like to know more about it.
@WarrenPrior Жыл бұрын
Great video. I’m not sure how you created the layer you used for sharpening, but it may have overridden your Orton effect on the rock? Perhaps that was intentional? More of an fyi.
@Bwanar1 11 ай бұрын
My radial gradient filter, doesn't have tabs with the new version like it use to. Is there a way to turn them on? Thanks in Advance.
@carlosgouveia Жыл бұрын
Are you going to visit Portugal as well?
@MarkDenneyPhoto Жыл бұрын
No not this time. I wish!
@carlosgouveia Жыл бұрын
@@MarkDenneyPhoto shame, would be more than happy to welcome you and meet you. Keep up the awesome work!
@GenericPast Жыл бұрын
8:10 There's a face in the rocks on the right
@JayGreezy Жыл бұрын
why do people not use the new lightroom? Classic settings aren't even the same, and to people using the new app a lot of these videos aren't helpful. Most every video i look for to try and get some help with lightroom stuff, its 2023 but they are using Classic instead of the "normal" lightroom. Which just seems like its a more dated version with less clear UI?
@bartoszgejga9267 5 ай бұрын
That’s because new Lightroom forces You to upload all your Photos to the cloud. Cant use it with files stored locally
@guglielmo_arte_naturale Жыл бұрын
i really liked the first radial you used but the others put an unnatural light which is really fake and it's not worth it too work for nothing that adds beneficial to the photo. I've seen better lightroom tutorials and the title of the video baits you. didn't unlike the video but MAAaaaaan cmon!
@guglielmo_arte_naturale Жыл бұрын
the photo was much better before =(
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