I have followed your channel for a few years. While I am a wildlife (small bird) photographer I still learnt so much from you and enjoyed your style of presentation...I also loved anything you did on overlanding. Now that you are including wildlife photography here on the channel it is just awesome and I look forward to seeing more of your work and picking up ideas and tips from you.

Impressive technique and knowledge. Thanks for sharing.

I rarely if ever make KZfaq comments but I find Nick’s explanations so good and his work such high quality l felt compelled. He breaks down complex processes into simple steps and explains why he’s doing it. Love it

Looks great Nick! For birds with dark eyes (like puffins) adding a bit of exposure, saturation and noise reduction with a brush can add a nice glossy look to the eyes and make them pop.

It's always cool and benefiting watching your videos. Thank you

I finally have the wildlife setup I've dreamed of since 1972 with my Z9 and the Nikkor Z 800 f/6.3 PF. It feels like cheating. The Topaz suite is my best friend as a wildlife photographer; I use it on almost every photo. I am intimidated by Photoshop, and I got dizzy watching all the stuff you were doing in there. I use PS for very limited and relatively easy things that I can't do as effectively in LRC. A lot of features from PS have been migrating to LRC, and I've been using more of the mask features, which really help. I know I should get over my PSphobia, and when I have more time in my life, I'll work on learning to use it more effectively. Great video though, and I'm glad you're discovering the joys of wildlife photography. I like doing landscapes too, but wildlife is my main bag.

This is incredible - thank you so much! This video is so very helpful. Also, I love the way you said at the beginning that you are not a wildlife photographer and then proceeded to blow our socks off with your awesome wildlife images.

I'm blown away man, your before and after are subtle yet night and day! Hope you have more of these walk throughs coming!!!

Being a bird watcher and wildlife photographer, this is right up there at the top! Love that your photos whether it’s landscape or wildlife- Gorgeous!! ❤

I never post comments, but I couldn't pass this up! Please, please, please keep posting more wildlife videos!!! Lots of us are multi-genre photographers, and we really appreciate that in others. Your PS skills blow my mind and make me want to learn more. Thank you for all your effort, and I will definitely try to track down a workshop to go to❤️

Nice capture, nice work.

Nick you're one of the best thank you for showing all of us, how to make our pictures more vibrant. Thank you hope you have a great 2023 Looking forward to more wildlife and landscape pictures.

Wow, what a great video for wildlife editing!

Really amazing, Nick. Thank you so much. Some awesome tips I'd never have thought of. Haven't seen you around much these days. I hope you're doing well.

I can never have enough of your masterful talent and expertise!!! Thank you Nick 🙏👍

As always, a wonderful, informative and beautifully explained video. Thanks a lot. 😊

As a wildlife shooter, I found the video so helpful! Please continue to implement these into your channel. Thanks a million, man!

This was super helpful Nick - straightforward and easy to follow . . . Thanks.- Robby

Love how you take your time and calmly explain what you are doing. Makes it easy to follow! Thank you for that.

Very excited to see you "spread your wings" into this genre! Beautiful end result for sure, and all the images you showed were great!

Yes, very useful indeed Nick thanks. I’m going to shoot more wildlife with my new lens and I like editing my fave shots. Saving this vid for future reference

I'm thinking about getting into Photography and have stumbled onto this channel. Looks like I found a good place.

Nick, you're wildlife photos are absolutely stunning! You've gone beyond taking a documentary type photo and gone straight into the realm of fine art.

Thank you Nick, for this great tutorial! Your wildlife images are looking really awesome! 👍👍👍👍 All the best for you and your family in 2023!

I was looking forward to this video. I love your take on dual processing for wildlife and birds. This past year I too have become obsessed with birds. Learning a new skill has help with my landscape work. Love your work and thanks a bunch.

Nick - your processing videos are second to none. Thank you!! Hope you are looking forward to a happy and healthy new year.

Wow, another home run for me! I learned a lot on landscape from you and now having a landscape artist blend his knowledge to wildlife photography is awesome! Even though I follow great wildlife photographers, you offer a blend of expertise not often seen with them! Keep it coming! 👌

Really enjoyed this and the finisher shot is sublime !! The body change has been a game changer too !!

Wildlife photography, specifically birds, was my early love in this hobby. I have found that my landscape photography skills, especially editing, really helps with wildlife. I would say that birds, anyway, still look best in golden hour. I've also found that they look best when shot at eye level. So, shooting waterfowl means lying shoreside on my belly. Birds in flight are best from a slightly elevated viewpoint so you don't just have sky in the background. I really look forward to more images and workflow tips from you!

Thank you for this video Nick. I have followed you on Instagram and now on here. This is an amazing video and super helpful! Thank you again!

Hey Nick, you've just confirmed my long held belief that a decent photographer can pretty much photograph any genre, landscape, wildlife, etc, etc. I actually think that having a varied skill set as a photographer can stop us getting into the doldrums and many of the skills are transferable! Loving your wildlife images you put up, superb work! Cheers from the UK. Ace editing as always!

The GOAT of photography tutorial KZfaqrs. Great job Nick!

This was absolutely amazing and something that was super down to earth and easy to understand. Please do more of this type of content with more wildlife examples! Keep up the good work!

Awesome video...glad you are finding some new things to be challenged by!

Cracking photo and an excellent tutorial, I picked up some useful tips. Thanks Nick and Happy New Year.

Great video Nick! I’m going to try your workflow. 🙌🏻

Nick you're the best. Always fun to watch your videos. I'm looking forward to joining you on a workshop sometime. Thumbs up from me.

Mixing up photography like this keeps it fresh and more fun! I find myself going between landscapes, wildlife, musicians/people and also drone photos. I love warming up the subject a bit and creating those cool/warm contrasts. Sometimes I'll just paint on some warmth in LR but I'm going to try PS and your selection methods tonight. Thanks for taking us through your process, tremendous help.

Absolutely amazing image…

Landscape photographer shoots some of the most stunning wildlife pictures!!!

After two years of using Lightroom I feel very comfortable and confident using it for my bird photography. That being said... your Photoshop workflow is certainly giving me inspiration for how to yet again, take my hobby to the next level! So happy to see you shooting birds! I've always liked your night sky work and now that I live in a more rural setting I can't wait to revisit your videos this summer but honestly PLEASE make more bird photography / editing videos! This one was easily one of the best I've ever seen on YT.

Glad to see you doing wildlife photography! Stunning photos of the eagle. I do the same thing, combine landscape and wildlife (bird) photography. Keeps me busy the entire day. I've got the Sony 200-600, not as fast as your prime, but very sharp and fun to use. Denoising/sharpening software saves a lot of my photos taken with the (not BIF optimal) A7R III. Thank you for sharing this, very informative. You sure know how to use PS. Keep up the good work, Nick! 📸👍

Thanks--good comments and you have some great shots there (although I use a DxO/Topaz workflow, so noise is no longer an issue). Also, when people ask me about gear, I recommend a Micro Four Thirds system for virtually any genre, but particularly for wildlife/landscape use. My Lumix G9 with battery grip and Leica 100-400 (200-800mm EFL due to the 2X crop factor) together weigh about 2kg/4.4 lb and that lens is 17cm/6.75" long and 82mm/3.25" wide. It's tack-sharp (although that's not hugely important for most images, it's of course desirable for many wildlife shots) and has a minimum focusing distance of 1.3m/4.27' for an effective magnification of 0.5x, enabling "semi-macros" from a "safe" distance (let's not forget about very small wildlife)! Oh, and with 6.5 stops of dual IS, no tripod's needed, as it's very easy to hand-hold while waiting for the right moment (plus 20 fps "pre-burst" enables you to capture the decisive moment even after the fact). BtW, I'm also a drummer and Rogue is one of my "desert island" breweries.

It’s fun to see the sparkle in your eyes talking about your photography journey again. It’s fun to mix it up what you shoot makes you see things in a new way

Brilliant as always, Nick

Man I love all your work, photographically, post processing style/quality and educationally! Wishing you all the best for 2023!

Excellent, Thanks, Nick. Happy New Year.

This process blew me away with how much I don’t know and need to keep working on. Great video and pics

Wow! That was a masterclass. Thank you Nick!

Awe Nick, Your wildlife stuff is unbelievable! Incredible!

Great sharp shots. I had the 600mm Canon EF lens years ago. But, I didn't do that much wildlife photography. So, it just wasn't worth keeping that lens. And, yes, it is a beast to carry. Glad you found a new interest in photography.

Thank you very much for these videos about editing.... I learn a lot with the techniques you show and with the advice to improve the final result! I wish you an excellent year 2023!

Thank you for your detailed explanations, very helpful.

Hey Nick, your wildlife photography is absolutely gorgeous! As always you’ve got some seriously mad processing skills😁. I wish you and your loved ones a healthy and Happy New Year! Edit: I almost forgot to say, your videos are always very helpful, thank you!

Great vid. Love the way you explain things. 👌🏼

Nick, Just amazing video. You are a master at what you do, and your presentation makes it easy to comprehend. Thanks, I always look forward to your videos.

When I was trying to find my style of photography, you were one of the first people who showed me how amazing landscape photography is. I eventually also got into wildlife photography and thought that your take on wildlife would be amazing. To now see your work in wildlife definitely proved what I thought to be correct. Glad you found a love for an amazing style of photography.

Nick, the portfolio of wildlife images we were treated to in this video are easily on par with the work of some of the best wildlife photographers out there. Seasoned professionals specializing in and doing nothing but wildlife. How does a landscape photographer make this transition so convincingly? Answer: Talent. Amazing.

Nick, just to add, I am very grateful that you take the time to do videos for us especially the editing ones. I first learned about Photoshop masks from watching one of your videos, where black conceals and white reveals. Thank you!!!

Hi Nick, I admire your landscape photography, your editing is really amazing you have a style that's your own and different from most landscape photographers and now that you're doing wildlife photography, you'll have to add a new tutorial on how you edit your wildlife photos, your wildlife editing is way more advanced from what I can do, but I'm ready to learn from your tutorials. As usual, great video, thank you.

Fantastic information! Thanks so much!

Oh man!! Those wildlife images are just *awesome*! You are not just a great landscape photographer!

Impressive Nick! You are mastering the wildlife genre so quick and I can sense a new passion. Thanks for the great instructions as always. Happy 2023!

Thank you Nick for this video! It really gives me new ideas and approaches to edit my wildlife photography. Again, thank you for your work and the great videos you produce!!!

Wow, that’s a lot to digest! I’d also be interested in your techniques for capturing the images in the beginning.

Unbelievable the technic and results you already have after so little experience. Nice man! I mentioned that your 500/4.0 from 1999, becomes a RF 600/4.0 in the metadata of your images. Lol…

What a fantastic tutorial! Your ongoing generosity is truly appreciated. Happy New Year Nick, to you and your family!

Nick, I have been following your landscape photography for years, and have loved learning about landscapes from you - and now you’re expanding to wildlife, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. This was a wonderfully helpful video, and I appreciate it (and you)!!

You are the Man! Thanks for this. Making it cool to go back to bird photography where I started.

Your recent wildlife photos are very artistic and of a really high quality.

Damn. It's like you just developed an instant wildlife portfolio since going Canon. Keep killing it!

Your teaching style really clicks with me. Each demonstration you do I pick up something new (density of mask, and boosting the catch light this time) Looking forward to the next one!

Excellent presentation of your workflow Nick, really enjoyed it. It shows that your interventions are purposeful, well done!!

Great tutorial Nick, as usual. I also agreed with the option of using Topaz for reducing the Noise, it's a wonderful tool. Thanks

Wow. Just wow! Images were gorgeous! Thanks for the great tips!

SOOOO glad you made this video. Absolutely saving for use in the future.

As always, just awesome - Topaz Labs Photo AI was my only photography purchase for 2022 and I feel it was totally worth every penny. Have agree about it's worth, or lack of, for landscapes and also aviation which is my other passion. But for wildlife the results are usually stunning. Looking forward to more in 2023 - Happy New Year.

Excellent Nick! Thank you for a very informative and enjoyable tutorial 😃🦅🎉

Forgot to comment after I watched this a couple weeks ago. Always a pleasure watching how you navigate your images in post. Really amazing photos! Hopefully you continue to pursue wildlife shooting because both wildlife and landscape photography compliment each other so well, connecting us more deeply to the natural beauty on display.

I'm glad to see you go down this rabbit hole. You have been putting out some great stuff too. Keep it up!

Tremendously helpful and clear guidance - thanks Nick. Nice shots there too.

Thanks for the video. It was great meeting you in CDA a few weeks ago.

Great video.

I'm glad you're getting into wildlife photography!

This is the BEST

Seeing some of your wildlife images on Vero I've been looking forward to this video. Thanks Nick.

Great lesson, Nick. I'm a long term user of Tony Kuyper's panels. I loved seeing the way you use the Orton effect .

Thank you!!! Those of us who do pet photography love Topaz Denoise. It is amazing.

Your photos are incredible! Thanks for this tutorial.

You are a genius, but I am color blind, so a lot of your workflow is out of bounds for me. I’d really appreciate it if you could give some guidance for visually disabled people like me :)

Wow! A lot to digest here but thankfully, I can watch it again and again

Great video Nick 😃

Amazing picture and workflow. Love all your stuff.

Thanks Nick for your great video on post editing wildlife & so easy to understand & well explained.

walks out to his backyard and just KILLS the coyote images, damn! like they say in Little Drummer Boy, a "king of kings" ... your insights go above, and beyond

Outstanding tutorial! There is so much to learn here.

Hi Nick, I have been watching your videos for a long time although more interested in wildlife than landscape I love your photography. Very intriguing to see that not only have you now got an R5 but you are also photographing wildlife. I can't wait to see you combine the two with your skills and loved the images you shared in this video. I have R5 and RF 100-500.

Wow Nick, your attention to detail is excellent. Encourages me to learn more. A lot of great info here.

So helpful. Thanks very much!

Very helpful, thanks for sharing. Several of the landscape techniques can be applied at a less extent. I think the hardest part is the triaging as you mentioned.