D-B-J
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I've had many photographers (especially on Instagram) ask me how I shoot and edit, so I made a little blog post the other day about how I approach a scene, how I shoot, how I edit, basically a start-to-finish tutorial. Figured I'd share it here as well, to see what you thought? What did I leave out? Is it coherent? Comprehensive? Feel free to be brutal--that's the only way I'll learn.
quot Spring Flooding quot Landscape Photography Tutorial Red Skies Photography (the link is to my website, not some rando virus, I promise).
A bit on post processing:
Now, on to post-processing: I'm not going to bother showing you exactly what value each slider had in Lightroom, as no two images are alike and copy and pasting settings from one to the next means little. But in general, I've found that I really like the look and feel of cool and desaturated post-processing, especially on water/rock shots with snow and ice. I think it helps maintain the mood of the cold air and water, which is important. I boosted the shadows, knocked back the highlights, increased clarity, selectively cooled the temperature of the water (the tannins and iron in New England's fresh water leads to heavily browned water, which doesn't always fit the final image I have in mind, so I often desaturate/cool the water in post-processing). I added some moderate contrast in the curves, removed the slight barrel distortion and vignetting that the 16-35 has, added some sharpness, and a few other minor edits. This is full-frame, and un-cropped. Notice any vignetting from the filters? Neither do I! (Likely the BEST attribute of the Lee 100mm system, wide angle adapter, and landscape polarizer--nothing beats being able to polarize and ND a 16mm full frame image without fear of vignetting!)
And the final image, if you're not into clicking links.
"Spring Flooding" by f_one_eight, on Flickr
Cheers!
Jake
quot Spring Flooding quot Landscape Photography Tutorial Red Skies Photography (the link is to my website, not some rando virus, I promise).
A bit on post processing:
Now, on to post-processing: I'm not going to bother showing you exactly what value each slider had in Lightroom, as no two images are alike and copy and pasting settings from one to the next means little. But in general, I've found that I really like the look and feel of cool and desaturated post-processing, especially on water/rock shots with snow and ice. I think it helps maintain the mood of the cold air and water, which is important. I boosted the shadows, knocked back the highlights, increased clarity, selectively cooled the temperature of the water (the tannins and iron in New England's fresh water leads to heavily browned water, which doesn't always fit the final image I have in mind, so I often desaturate/cool the water in post-processing). I added some moderate contrast in the curves, removed the slight barrel distortion and vignetting that the 16-35 has, added some sharpness, and a few other minor edits. This is full-frame, and un-cropped. Notice any vignetting from the filters? Neither do I! (Likely the BEST attribute of the Lee 100mm system, wide angle adapter, and landscape polarizer--nothing beats being able to polarize and ND a 16mm full frame image without fear of vignetting!)
And the final image, if you're not into clicking links.
"Spring Flooding" by f_one_eight, on FlickrCheers!
Jake
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