WILDLIFE PHOTO EDITING IN LIGHTROOM

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WILDLIFE PHOTO EDITING IN LIGHTROOM | KALAHARI LION

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A simple philosophy and example of wildlife photo editing in lightroom. It's a long one folks, sorry! I explain the how and why of a black-maned Kalahari Lion edit using Lightroom. This video on wildlife photo editing tips is in response to a question by Thibault Wyrsch.
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@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

*A GAME CHANGER* - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ob2EhbVnnZ2qZmw.html

@stephenkerley3395 4 жыл бұрын

My go to channel, so practical, so interesting.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephen! Very kind.

@sketchartphoto8117 3 жыл бұрын

i like it too!

@maemu_matshete 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks w WILL, I've learned 1 important tool on this video. Now i know how to use radiant filter.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Glad you got something useful out of it. Happy editing :)

@malgosiak123 4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call it laziness. To me this is more like a wise planning. Once we reach a comfortable level with photography knowledge, we all tend to take less shots, but still ending up with hundreds anyway. Working on only the best shots is the proper way and there is nothing wrong with that. Love the Lion shot , maybe because most of my photography is focusing on animal face and expressions.Thank you for a great tutorial. I enjoyed a lot . Stay safe and healthy.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Margaret! You are quite right. I am very ruthless with my pics now and derive a little pleasure when I can delete a few hundred or so! I did enjoy the lion edit and a couple of others I've done recently. It's nice sometimes to just dive in and finish a pic or two. Thanks for watching and commenting and take care over there please!

@kenstav1 4 жыл бұрын

Envious to be able to have any of those photos in my portfolio to be able to “maybe edit”. Great tutorial

@gareth0408 4 жыл бұрын

Was lucky enough to visit east Africa over Christmas. It's amazing how quickly the dark skin around the eyes and lips turns into mascara and Gothic lipstick when editing lions. Always enjoy your videos. Stay well.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you managed to get there and back again without any problems. How was it, hope you had a great time? Thanks for taking a look and leaving me a comment, most appreciated.

@gareth0408 4 жыл бұрын

@@WillGoodlet Was the best. We missed the floods and the locusts that affected that region of Africa recently, and now the pandemic. All sounds very biblical really. I truly enjoy your channel. Informative and entertaining. Hope you get great outcomes from it. Stay safe.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gareth, you too!

@pbombergerbomberger7587 3 жыл бұрын

I know you don’t like post editing but I enjoyed your explanations and how you did it. Do more of this. It really helps me with light room.

@WillGoodlet 3 жыл бұрын

pbomberger Bomberger thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated

@catherinetremerryn 3 жыл бұрын

Great walk thru. We’re in semi lockdown too so these tutorials have been tremendous.

@WillGoodlet 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you are finding them useful Catherine, stay safe there!

@gileselliott 4 жыл бұрын

Well thanks to you I will never again see a shot of a magnificent lion, staring out thoughtfully into the empty space of his territory, framed on the cover of a magazine like NatGeo... without wondering if he is actually having a poop. (Great video though).

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

No secrets on my channel Giles :) I'm sure we all pull some good faces when taking a poop!

@kenstav1 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@ghlocal1 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video Will! I love editing my pics!!

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason and glad to hear it! I wish I could just waive a wand and all my pics would just sort themselves out. At least when I look into the catalog one or two jump out still.

@axelmertens7762 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome Will thanks for the video showing your editing skills!

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Axel, just a little basic one. I am not a meticulous editor, I find it's easier just to start with a good shot :)

@kbruff2010 3 жыл бұрын

1. What about plane - distortion? 2. Why don't you use Enhance DNG? 3. Do you consider detail strokes to tighten boundaries?

@WillGoodlet 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin, to be honest, I rarely notice distortion in wildlife shots. With regard to Enhance, two things. 1) I almost always forget it is there buried in the menu - thanks for the reminder!!! 2) I use Topaz products most of the time to do the job. On your third question - do you mean using the local area adjustments to darken the edges and attract the eye to the subject? If so very rarely. Not for any particular reason apart from a distaste for strong vignettes. Sometimes I do though.

@kbruff2010 3 жыл бұрын

@@WillGoodlet thank you -- I will look into Topaz

@stephanandersen7643 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video, now that was a bunch of advice and tips i can use.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephan!

@thibaultwyrsch6888 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this video, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this, especially after a simple comment of mine. You did bring very interesting points such as checking the metadata in order to select which image to edit (a habit I definitely need to pick up) and go beyond the first look we have of the picture. I wouldn't have thought about focusing just on the face of a lion in order to disregard his pose. I think as I got more efficient editing (speed-wise at least), I started editing more picture as well as doing more work on each individual ones. I do need to get back this "laziness" in editing and think more before editing a single shot. As your video shows, well taken powerful pictures will stand out already if we take the time to look at them. And all the time spent doing this will be (at least partly) recovered later since less editing is required. So thank you again for taking the time to show us your workflow and philosophy in editing. It will definitely improve my own.

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Thibault for this thoughtful response. You are right we all grow and change as photographers over time. I suppose we also regress too! At the moment I feel less proficient than I was a couple of years ago. I had a book almost ready back then, over 60,000 words written and due to all the crazy things that have been happening in my life and the world I feel like I've forgotten most of what I knew when I wrote it! And I am sure after the current events I will be even more rusty :) But one thing I definitely haven't forgotten is how to recognise a picture that I can take further. I think the ability to recognise a promising image or possibly the ability and confidence to throw away poor images is one of the most important lessons we can learn when it comes to editing.

@kbruff2010 3 жыл бұрын

09/29/2020 Thank you for this beneficial information.

@WillGoodlet 3 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome

@GuidoVanDeWater 4 жыл бұрын

Omg... I thought i knew most of lightroom but that alt key during sharpening is an amazing tip. I love the way you reduced the background and realy got the focus on the head. I tried to do so on a picture of s leopard i posted on i Instagram today but that didn't work out exactly i wanted. I'm gonna try again with you method just to see if it can get better. Get guido

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Guido! I'm by no means a meticulous photo editor but I am glad you liked it. The leopard looked good to me :) Every pic is different so not every trick is appropriate all the time. I don't mean to give the impression that I always edit in this way. It was just an example using Lightroom. I often use photoshop and other tools too, depending on what I am trying to do. I have found that LR is getting better and better, especially with the addition of the new luminance masking options - I use these often.

@GuidoVanDeWater 4 жыл бұрын

@@WillGoodlet I'm using lightroom since 2 to 3 years so I have lots of older pictures that where never edited in the right way. Some unfortunately in jpg because in the early days I didn't shoot raw. Now that I have some time due to the Corona crisis I'm finding new jewels all the time. I like it when I see some content that shows new options I like your last video. I also use your video of blurring the background in photoshop a lot. I still can't remember the right tools so everytime I watch it again when I want to use it. I tried to blur the background on the leopard in the tree but everytime i noticed that i lost the nose hair of the leopard and that was not an option. But i do have a pic ready that was made much better with this technique. So you're content is realy helpful to me cheap up the great work. Maybe you can make a clip on how you use the luminance masking? I'm struggling with this sometimes. Thnx

@LieslHuddleston 4 жыл бұрын

Great edit, Will! Enjoyed watching :) I love to edit and sometimes spend too much time doing it LOL

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Liesl! I think your love shines through in your stunning shots. Time well spent!

@neelsredphoto 4 жыл бұрын

Very insightful! Thank you, Will. For the sake of interest, why do you choose to leave profile corrections unchecked?

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Neels, not always unchecked but for wildlife with telephotos the distortion is next to nothing and the vignette is pleasing. Means you don’t need to add a vignette later (if you Are cropping you will need to add a vignette manually anyway)

@neelsredphoto 4 жыл бұрын

@@WillGoodlet Thanks, Will!

@JPLamoureuxsTravels 4 жыл бұрын

Fab tutorial! And all that info with a lion having a shit! hahaaaa who would have thought it 😂 loved that vlog, thanks for sharing 👍🏼.... One question, do you calibrate your screens? if so with what tool? JP

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Spyder4 - I have one High Gamut display running windows an one normal. I have a lot of trouble with colour on the high gamut - unmanaged internet browsers (solved by using Firefox to proof). Also the windows photo preview app is not colour managed!

@JPLamoureuxsTravels 4 жыл бұрын

Will Goodlet I’m looking at a spyder at the mo, I think I’ll pull the trigger on that, I use a 2020 Mac book pro mostly just interested to see what difference it will make 🤔

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know macs that well - but I think they have more consistent colour management. It's pretty redundant unless you are printing a lot? I got mine due to the craziness introduced by the high gamut monitor and the unmanaged photo viewer built into windows. I thought I had a colour problem but actually just had an app problem. I now preview in Firefox to see how it will display on the web. I print very few pics.

@deanmclachlan7082 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another excellent video. Quick question regarding cropping and printing. In the video you cropped quite heavily. My question is, what was the megapixel of the camera you used and how large would you make that lion photo having cropped it as much as you did? I look forward to hearing from you. Many thanks 😊

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Dean, sorry for the late answer, been working on the next one. Good question! The image was shot on a Canon 7D mark ii 20.2 Megapixels. The image was cropped to 2233 x 1117. I will use the width as the measure because if I were printing it I would probably not crop at 2:1 in order to increase the size (unless for a photo book perhaps). My screen resolution is 108 pixels per inch and obviously this will differ from person to person. A print, in my experience, always outperforms a screen for image clarity, sharpness and 'feel' but not brightness. If I printed at the general standard of 240 DPI I would end up with a 9 inch (width) print. Quite small as you say, but at this size the print would be exceptional quality v the screen. If I printed the image at the screen resolution of 108 PPI (not really the same thing as a dot matrix print because the printer lays down ink not pixels so it is difficult to compare on this basis) I feel I would end up with a very acceptable 20 inch print. I could easily scale the print using any of the resizing tools in photoshop, Topaz AI Gigapixel, ON1 Resize etc... and likely come out with a good print of larger size or the same size with greater resolution. For context - this article explains some of my thinking on prints, cameras and by inference, on cropping. willgoodlet.com/posts/is-it-really-the-gear

@deanmclachlan7082 4 жыл бұрын

Good evening Will, Thank you very much for your detailed reply, it was much appreciated and make perfect sense. I also enjoyed reading the article on your blog that you attached above. Very insightful and a lovely approach to the very consumption focused society that we live in. I look forward to seeing your next video and hopefully more of your beautiful wildlife photos on Instagram too. Many thanks, Dean

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dean. I see you have beautiful pics on Instagram! I don't post there much or online generally (except KZfaq) I killed off two previous IG accounts. This one is a new one so I could follow my little sister. She's becoming a very good food 'tog :) instagram.com/lindsaysfeast

@mieczyslawkuzma3739 4 жыл бұрын

I am like you, I also hate to edit the photos. Interesting to see your approach. I wonder that you crop your picture so far. Usually I never go under the resolution of my monitor. Maybe I should try

@WillGoodlet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mieczyslaw. Yes I often crop in a lot. I find that when using very wide apertures (f3.2) in this case the images hold up very well. This one was not yet a 1:1 crop. It was 2233 x 1117 at the end of it all, so quite a small image but fine for the web.