Hollow handle knife can be used to stick it into ground and insert inside monopod. I made it from titanium and carbon fiber so it's super light.

I like your approach and the way you explain things ! Thanks

Great video Terry with some excellent points. One thing that I have found in using the masking instead of selecting subject I use object and paint over the bird or whatever you want to mask. It seems to work much better and doesn't include other things that you have too delete from the mask. Thanks for all the great tutorials.

Very informative. Thanks.

Very informative video. Thank you.

Great video, love what you're doing. Unlike other KZfaq videos that fly through how to do something you take the time to explain how and why making easier to understand. Many thanks

I love the focus stack feature on Nikon Cameras. Great tutorials Terry. Thank you

Thx, was a very good tutorial! For sure I'm gone practice this and adopt the procedure.

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Terry Vander Heiden thank you so much I am learning from you and I really like your video and your photos

this is a monster tutorial. Just awesome. thanks. I am a fan. Need to get your book on sharpening.

Excellent Terry! Your videos are greatly appreciated.

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Thanks Terry. Do you see any instances where visiting PS and using, say Hi-Pass, provides any further benefits??

Noticed he skipped right over the 85mm focal length.

bedankt Terry

Thanks Terry for this very interesting subject. I never quite understood how to use sharpening before, but I constantly had issues with denoising and sharpening (APS-C!!!) wildlife photographs. I know about noise in shadows and sharpness in the subject, so it is a pity that you can't use the Alt-key to fine tune while masking. I had better results using Topaz products (Denoise AI & Sharpen AI/Photo AI) anyway, but it's so easy to oversharpen, or having denoise in the way of sharpening without artifacts. What is your opinion here? Is it important to remove default sharpening prior to do cropping and 'Basic' changes? Then a Preset might help. To crop towards the center of the image, you should use the Alt key to save time and accuracy.

I was waiting for something to finish, and started looking at this tone curve tutorial on my mobile. There are so many ways to adjust colours in LHR, I didn't expect to learn much from it. Boy, was I mistaken! Thanks for yet another use of masks, allowing me to better adjust colours of either subjects or backgrounds where necessary.

Thanks for your videos. I’ve watched the entire beginner to photoshop playlist which was very helpful to me in navigating PS (it’s brand new to me). I edit studio portrait photos, I still having some trouble in figuring out in what order I should do particular things. For example, I smooth the background by selecting the background then use Gaussian blur and add noise to match the subject, following that I use frequency separation to smoothe the subjects skin and maybe liquify. I can successfully do each of these tasks in isolation but I’m unable to do all 3 in one edit/image. I must be missing something. Any advice ?

Excellent video for learning to use video. I'm just getting back into it and this will help me get back into it and learn the new tools that make photos so much better. Thanks for doing this.

Perfect video. No annoying techno music, a sensible intro, no lightroom preset ads every 30 seconds, and most importantly, the exact information we all want to know without rambling. Thanks Terry, new subscriber.

sir, is it possible to give us sample photo.?

This was So useful. I always thought I should mask then sharpen but now I understand the opposite is better. I also learned the function of radius and masking in sharpening. Thanks so much for this really useful tutorial!

Great tutorial!!! Gave me a great start in Lightroom Classic.

Well explained to make a beginner understand . Thanks for the video Terry . Keep making videos on lightroom classic

This is the first time I have actually been able to use the pen tool without frustration! Using the rough outline with the direct tool made all the difference ... and doing this way actually really helped get better at using the curves (or rubber band points as you describe them). As a photographer this is spot on!!

Hello again, Terry. Can you give some direction on how to create a shadow that blends and/or bends from horizontal to vertical, as if a wall is behind the subject?

Terry, At the end you mentioned a video tutorial of composite shadows. Has that been posted?

Thanks so much. I am new to Lightroom, using it with a new Sony camera, and your tutorials have been gold. Thanks again.

Terry thank you for taking my skills to a next level. Can you tell me when you would use the Denoise in your workflow? I have been making minor adjustments then using the AI denoise .... Thank you again.

Very good instruction

superb very well explained

Very helpful. Thank you!

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Great video very helpful and informative for me a lightroom classic idiot.

I have just started to take my casual phototaking a bit more seriously with Light Room, been struggling in organizing and backing up my photos. Your video is really useful. Thank you Terry.

These are nice refinements. I thought noise should be removed first so I will be interested in your video. Also, have you determined that this approach is equivalent to options available in PS, such as unsharp mask?

seems so much easierand faster and more precise to make the masks manually each time rather than sorting through a huge list of preset brushes…

Best light room content. Detailed explanation for dummies.

Great thanks, I too wonder when and if you apply noise reduction?

Great video and some excellent comparisons. I also use the little square in the Detail panel and hover over part of the image that's important - such as the eye in your wood duck. It sometimes helps in getting the sliders set perfectly to one's liking. I also use Denoise AI before any processing so most of the noise is controlled before I start editing my images. You've got a new subscriber - from western Canada!

Fantastic video …. Greetings from Greece

Thankyou … well explained.

Easy to follow technique with great results

Great lesson, thank you.

I like your procedure Terry and it is pretty much the path that I follow. The thing I add and you did not discuss was the removal of noise. At what point in your editing do you remove the noise? I typically remove noise, if obvious, after the Basic panel adjustments and prior to sharpening.

Terry, the sharpening in the masking is just a addon to the sharpening in the details panel. This means it just adds amount to the sharpening which is set in the main-details panel to accentuate parts of the image. In fact, you do the sharpening as usual in the details panel, but leave the amount slider to a smaller value than usual, the start masking of the main part of the image and add amount of sharpening just to the main part of the image which is selected by the masking.

I own Nikon Z8 and the 180-600mm. Never owned a prime because I like the versatility to compose on subject so I cannot compare. But I can tell you that IQ is Brilliant. I have photographed surfing sports events, birds, wildlife of the 4-legged kind and now recently airshows. This combo has not let me down. Super high keeper rate and I have yet to use 3d tracking. I have also pushed this lens to high ISO of 12,800-16,000, wide open and ss at 2000 for BIF was amazed at how little noise showed on the raw file and after post processing they were perfect. You zoom in and the detail was not washed away. I actually posted the pics elsewhere and was pleasantly surprised by all the likes. The only thing that concerns me is the weather sealing. I have used it in misty rain without issue and but never in a downpour which at that point I will put away and not push it.

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In the Nikon website it says is for still subjects, portraits and landscape