🤐QUICK POLL: Would you consider this “cheating”?

@liverpoolpictorial

Жыл бұрын

Not since you showed me how do them in your excellent tutorial😉

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

@@liverpoolpictorial Love that answer🙌

@jamesvooghtphotography

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Not cheating. Having shot on film most of my life, using Lightroom and/or Photoshop to make your photos look more like PHOTOS rather than a desktop background that is crunchy, to use your words. Funny thing is I do about 90% of this with Photoshop... thanks for the ideas for some more of it.

@EduardLopezArcos

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely not! It's about improving the image in order to transmit some mood. It's like giving some kind of soul to the scene.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesvooghtphotography Thanks a million for the comment James!

I liked the original image, but nice job explaining the techniques

Mark, thank you for another set of great editing tips. I always enjoy your presentations!😃

Always packed with useful/actionable information.

Great tips Mark!!

Thanks again for a very informative video. Keep up the good work!

Love the content, keep it coming. Looking forward to meeting you in Menorca in a few weeks!

Another great video that expands possibilities for great edits. Well done.

Probably the best color tutorial ever. You've just upped my game. Many thanks.

Love the opening. Very creative

Enlightening video. Many of us probably use these to some extent without giving much thought to the depth you’re digging into here. Well done for the shuttle enhancements that make big differences to an image. Thank you!!! I’ll see you in a couple of weeks in Forks!

Fantastic lesson!

Some great tips here. Cheers.

This video really blew my mind! Thank you for sharing your amazing skills! I definitely need to practice more after watching this video! :)

Thank you for a really helpful and well explained video.

Another excellent video Mark - I continue to learn so much from you and your channel. No, I do not consider it cheating, this is art and for me, it is about creating best image possible.

Very help video; we’ll done. Thanks

Great tips. I’m going to Bali soon and will def shoot some landscapes. Now I’ve got some inspiration.

Thank you for this!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks for the great tips Mark! Though the video is a tad on the long side, it's really useful for you to show all these tips, on the same image. I can definitely use these to improve my landscape photos!

I got into photography a few years ago and have been following the channel for a while. It’s genuinely, a really cool and reaffirming feeling in being able to correctly guess how you’re going to edit your photos in the video based on the name you give them. All of them are great tips too!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for following along Alex!

Excellent video Mark! Nice job demonstrating these techniques while talking about when and where to use them. Thank you!😊

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear you enjoyed it Mark!

I use all of these so frequently great quick lr tutorial

Thank you very much, Mark. Always learn something new or a new use for things I use all the time.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Hali!

Thanks!

Using Dehaze with fog is also key. Nice tips again. Thank you.

Great video putting all these techniques together into it. I already knew some of them and learn them on other videos from you. Thanks!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video!

Best LR/landscape photography guides on youtube! Thanks for all the videos. I have learned a ton.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Means so much - thank yoU!

No I wouldn't call these type of "enhancements" cheating. I've picked up and use many of these techniques that you have shown quite regularly. As you said it brings things closer to what I saw and also takes my photos to a different level. Something more enjoyable and perhaps a bit more dramatic to view. And as a side note working on my photos implementing many of these tips is a great way to spend my time and bringing that photo to the next level gives me a "warm fuzzy" and a sense of accomplishment.

Great show again. Ever learning and sharing. Thank you!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Love hearing this - thanks Jennifer!

Just a fantastic video! I love all these techniques and look forward to using them.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Donald!

Excellent techniques can be applied in incremental ways depending on the viewer. Eyes of the beholder and all that. Very informative. Not what to do but how to do it. Thank you.

Thanks for the info on these useful techniques Mark!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out Chris!

Thank you

Very very very original introduction 👏👏👏😉

Thank you ! your video , 고맙습니다. ^^

Great video as usual, we learn a lot from you, thank you for sharing

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Omar!

Another great video with really helpful content. Thanks for spending time sharing your expertise.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Excellent video Mark! I’ll use some of these tips for some photos this year, when you made the minor adjustments on the tone curve, I immediately could see how much more pleasing your photo looked.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks David! Glad to hear it was helpful.

A fantastic scene and image to use to show all of these great points Pal

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Darren! Hope you're well friend!

So glad you put early in the video the comment about painting the wall!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

:)

Hi Mark! Thank you for talking about these important editing tricks. I've been discussing and learning them with my teacher just a couple of weeks ago. What I like is that you can achieve the same results in many different ways and everyone has its own personal taste. Lightroom has gone through a lot of changes and they added a lot of new features in the past few years so everything's easier now. You can also mix lightroom and photoshop or use the camera raw filter. My personal thought is that every change should be very soft and subtle, the real challenge is not to overdo. Nice video! Keep up the good work. Cheers from Italy!👍🏻

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much my friend!

Nicely done intro 😊👍🏻

Thank you. Very helpful.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it thank you!

Thanks Mark. Although I'm familiar with these techniques it is great seeing a pro using them with a good explanation.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Reno!

I use Dehaze frequently. I live in a very humid area and sometimes like you've shown I need to accentuate that and sometimes I need to 'remove' it

Random off topic comment: a while a go you did a video about packing camera gear for flight travel. I will be going to Iceland this summer for a good week and those tips greately helped me in figuring out how i pack my gear ( i have a shimoda action X30) for the trip ! Wanted to post this for a while but you know how life goes! While in nation air-travel is basically not a thing in europe (i live in switzerland) i just dont have the expirience for such things. Just wanted to say that :)

I'm 50/50 with this. The techniques are brilliant so thanks for the tutorial. However I actually like the original more than the edited image. It's so subjective though as one isn't better or worse than the other, it's just personal preference?

Always very helpful, thank you. One thing I’d like to see a video is how to use LrC to rate and catalog photos. Thanks again for your work.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Glad to do it Keith!

Great tips!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I'd like to see more examples on how to use the negative dehaze. And what do you mean when you say it looks "flat" near the end? I had someone say that about one of my photos yesterday, and I think they meant that the colors looked flat, but then I was thinking maybe it had to do with things looking pushed together like when you use a telephoto. But in my case, I think they meant what I first understood. I'd like to know more about what looks flat and how to fix it.

Cool video. I use most of these techniques myself. Except, I prefer to go to Photoshop to add an Orton Layer to get that impressionistic effect. Sometimes I mask out some of the Orton Layer in foreground areas, and that adds a sense of depth.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a million John! Yes, Orton in PS is a more powerful solution for sure

Mark please explain, the video background..how you made the dark and pink and the water stand out with all the dark tone ? Basically your tutorial on the video page background itself, page it's beautiful

Mark, good video as always. I have started using a lot more of your techniques to edit my photos. I hope Adobe doesn't keep adding too many "improvements" to LR. I think it has the power to do everything I could possible want now. I have seen too many programs "improved" past the point of being beneficial! With the growing controversy over AI I hope they don't go overboard in this area. John

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a million John!

Thank you, Mark, for sharing your tricks and tips. To het an impressionistic look, would you in some cases still go to PS for the Orton effect? And if so, which video of yours would you recommend to watch in order to learn how to do it? Thanks in advance for your reply, Jacqueline

@jacquelinedegroot1785

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mark, I hope you will be able to ask my question too. ☺️ Kind regards! Jacqueline

You’re the Bob Ross of editing.

I use dehaze a LOT!

Hi Mark, many LR techniques which you use and demonstrate I have been using almost unconsciously. Your presentations on LR "show" me that I have "discovered" something new. This is interesting. I find the curve tool quite dangerous and touchy and hence I use it only in specific images, but as subtly as possible. I am still in the process of understanding it. By the way, few shots are posted in my #esspiefotografie. I know, you never comment, but at least you can have a look.

Thanks Mark for these editing techniques. I haven’t used Lightroom or Photoshop. I purchased Capture One Pro last year and wonder if you have used it and will the techniques you’ve explained apply to it? Thank you for all you do!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

I sure do Tom - love Capture One and the same principals in this video translate to C1 as well.

@tTLM823

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkDenneyPhoto Thanks Mark for letting me know. Editing brings a high learning curve but is obviously worth it -:)

I'm so thanked, you´re cool 👍. it´s not cheating

Great Video Mark thanks again. Really noticed the intro gradual colour change, did you keyframe that? Just interested how you did it? Rest of the Video was great as usual but just had me interested to know :-)

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Paul! Yes, key framed the saturation of the opening scene.

@paulg3388

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkDenneyPhoto really lovely detail, haven’t seen anyone else do that ! So nice you take the time to make the viewing so cool (or warm!) thanks Mark

I could really use your help! This seems like a good candidate to use a short exposure to keep the leaves sharp and then a longer exposure to get the desired effect for the water. Then in post-processing, you use a technique that saves the short exposure and then 'paint' in the slow shutter speed for the water. I can't remember the way you can get this done. Please help!

@dominikkindermann9123

Жыл бұрын

Use photoshop and different layers with masks.

I'm going to disagree with you on what Clarity Texture does. Technically you're right about what Texture does, it looks at the small details, but what it actually does is look at areas of the photo with the highest frequency (or change from one color to the next) while ignoring the lowest frequency (things that tend to be one color) from one pixel to the next. It's much like sharpening in this case but targeting areas with lots of color variations, which is often small detailed areas (not always). Texture can make gravel look crisp while ignoring the clear blue sky. But if there is noise in the sky that we can't clearly see on a large image, then texture would affect the sky. Clarity is much like contrast, except it focuses on the midtone of the color spectrum and either pushes the midtones towards the light and dark or pulls the light and dark towards the center. It doesn't focus on major details. It's why Dehaze is so good to use with Clarity, that if you decrease clarity to reduce midtone contrast (good for skin softening), it can create a glow effect that Dehaze can offset. Basically, lowering Clarity creates a haze, which is why when you decreased both in this image, it worked really well together. I hate to be that guy (I guess I am) to tell you that you're wrong as I respect so many of your videos, but Clarity has nothing to do with larger or small details. Just what do you do with midtones.

I'm going to pass the first picture looked the best

Good lord this was eye opening. And made me realize just how terrible I am at editing. 😂

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

😁

The edits are fantastic in making the photo look more ethereal and painterly. However, in my opinion with the dehaze effect it makes the photograph look a little too desaturated and flat. Obviously a quick fix, but just something to note. Great video as always.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I usually add some targeted contrast to the mid-tones to pump it up a bit.

Completely off topic.Where did you get your bracelet from?

What is the pad in front of your keyboard?

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

It's a trackpad

Cool! Thanks much! Not cheating. Did Adams or Weston or Steichen cheat? Nope

😀

Most people I know would refuse to even admit they occasionally use Lr xD Somehow Ps is so much more popular in my network.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

Жыл бұрын

Call it Adobe Camera RAW then😉

Cheating no way. Developing images wet or digital is just simply developing your photos.