Simple Processing that will ELEVATE your photography

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  • @ChrisMustermann
    @ChrisMustermann Жыл бұрын

    You are one of the few photographers I actually learn a lot from by watching your videos. Many others only show their photos and a video of how they took it. That is also fun to watch, but learning through videos is the key reason to prefer watching a video over my own discoveries in the field.

  • @jeffhobson5885
    @jeffhobson58854 ай бұрын

    I really love learning the steps you take Adam. You make photography fun not spending hours behind the computer on a single image. Your photos are amazing and thank you for these tips!

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    4 ай бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @juanitakelly3082
    @juanitakelly3082 Жыл бұрын

    Super demonstration on working with contrast and depth. I love your refined eyes and fairly simple approach. You are always good at making us so aware of the light!

  • @LandscapesDronescapes
    @LandscapesDronescapes Жыл бұрын

    Lovely video Adam. Simplicity at its finest

  • @peteberkery9652
    @peteberkery9652 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for your recent efforts to help out photographers once again! Pete

  • @1_Tim
    @1_Tim Жыл бұрын

    Insightful video. Thanks!

  • @jimduncan7764
    @jimduncan7764 Жыл бұрын

    Great video Adam

  • @Cantseethewoodforthetrees
    @Cantseethewoodforthetrees Жыл бұрын

    You are a great teacher -explains in plain English for this novice photographer

  • @johncarnahan4067
    @johncarnahan4067 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your video Adam and explaining the way you edit your photos love how your photos always look very natural absolutely fantastic work

  • @richardbingham8999
    @richardbingham8999 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the informative upload, Adam. Very insightful and shows us simplicity and minimal is more. Much appreciated.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @kris_tin_photography9922
    @kris_tin_photography9922 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for this encouraging video! When looking at other peoples photographs on Instagram I started to feel insecure in my editing, because like you I only did very small adjustments to enhance the natural look of the scene. Of course it helps to have the knowledge how to use Lightroom and Photoshop in detail, but in the end we only use what the photograph really needs. Your video is like another well fitting puzzle to the last videos of Alister Benn, that encouraged me to enjoy my own work and process instead of producing somthing others might like.

  • @dalkapur
    @dalkapur Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Adam. Hot tip for finding the white and black clipping points is to hold down Shift and click on the word. Sometimes doesn't work well for B&W images, but otherwise a real time saver.

  • @brianbeattyphotography
    @brianbeattyphotography Жыл бұрын

    Great video. I always try to err on the side of simplicity

  • @jeffschreifels8651
    @jeffschreifels8651 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! This is the most helpful video I've seen on editing photos.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome, thank you!

  • @ericerickson6537
    @ericerickson6537 Жыл бұрын

    Great video I have been using the exposure slider rather than the whit slider. Looks much better with the white slider.

  • @bernieshore
    @bernieshore Жыл бұрын

    Great video Adam, really enjoy your processing videos 👌

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear it!

  • @stevechilvers1322
    @stevechilvers1322 Жыл бұрын

    Another great video Adam. It's really helpful to see how you improve your photographs, but with so little editing! More of the same please.

  • @DaveKingMusic
    @DaveKingMusic Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! Thanks Adam!

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @anna-karinmickwitz7249
    @anna-karinmickwitz7249 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! This was really interesting and helpful.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear it!

  • @debrareither4682
    @debrareither4682 Жыл бұрын

    Great video Adam! Enjoyed your journey & views. It's always interesting to hear/see how you interpret your own views. Thanks for the lesson. 😃😀

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @EdwardKilner
    @EdwardKilner Жыл бұрын

    Another fine video. I find your analysis and editing decisions quite informative. Thank you.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Much appreciated!

  • @davidkelly1427
    @davidkelly1427 Жыл бұрын

    Great video Adam a lot of information you gave there i will put them in to use when editing my images when need Thank you

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @sandysmith1755
    @sandysmith1755 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I reckon this video will help lots in my editing 😀

  • @treyfoerster6468
    @treyfoerster6468 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic vid, thank you!

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @peteberkery9652
    @peteberkery9652 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for your tips on contrast.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @markflanagan521
    @markflanagan521 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic and easy explanation of your techniques Adam. Really did learn, like others have mentioned That trick of the whites rather than the highlights was quite enlightening , thank you so much

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks 👍

  • @gayleruble6529
    @gayleruble6529 Жыл бұрын

    I really dig how you don’t get consumed with editing. I certainly agree that it’s a critical tool…but to Joe McNally’s most excellent point!

  • @ulrichpflug2644
    @ulrichpflug2644 Жыл бұрын

    Great help for me. Don‘t like to sit in front of the PC too much. Thanks 👏👍

  • @tomc2631
    @tomc2631 Жыл бұрын

    I almost didn’t watch this because I thought it would be about lightroom and photoshop, and I use darkroom. But I’m glad I did, because it concentrates on the ‘what do I need to do’ question, which I struggle with, and less on the ‘how do I do it’ which I can get from the manual. More like this please.

  • @nickshepherd8377
    @nickshepherd8377 Жыл бұрын

    As always very enjoyable and useful. A special request! A couple of years ago you and Alister processed some of your followers Raw files completely independently. It was great to see your different interpretations and how you each went about processing the image. Would absolutely love to see you do this again! Thank you.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    I'll see what we can do

  • @georgefrench1907
    @georgefrench1907 Жыл бұрын

    Love the white slider tip. Thanks.👍

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    You bet!

  • @erkko69
    @erkko69 Жыл бұрын

    Great video again😀👍🌄🦜🐘!!!

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Cheers!

  • @davemenard5089
    @davemenard5089 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tips Adam G. btw the blue is very uplifting and you should wear it more often imo

  • @thork-media
    @thork-media Жыл бұрын

    I haven't watched the video yet... but I will! Just wanted to say that it was great, seeing you on the Fuji X Channel! Greetings

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Thank you!

  • @zigatretjak75
    @zigatretjak75 Жыл бұрын

    This is one heck of a good and useful vlog. Using Affinity I can translate that

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Happy to hear that!

  • @tonys3112
    @tonys3112 Жыл бұрын

    It's of great encouragement to see your process from RAW to final image in such clear precise way. To many are way too complicated to follow and understand on youtube. PS nice work on the GF 20-35 video.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Many thanks!

  • @lylestavast7652
    @lylestavast7652 Жыл бұрын

    They say if you live long enough, you see almost everything happen that you didn't expect. That image around 24:00 ... you'd really messed it up in that TIF you made so flat... lol The last bit you did on getting that sunlit pop back in it restored my total faith in your imaging... :D GREAT video... lots of photo students should watch this several times - so easy to harm the image....

  • @andrewherbert9938
    @andrewherbert9938 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for that Adam , can you do a video on Luminosity masks

  • @markdolan414
    @markdolan414 Жыл бұрын

    Lovely work and enjoyed watching your process, to me the Antarctic shot appeared to be a little more effective with the Iceberg being that little blue ship on its own alone in the sea with the far horizon closer to the original grey colour.. All subjective of course and many others no doubt will have a different opinion.. Look forward to seeing some more of your output 🙂👏

  • @davidskinner274
    @davidskinner274 Жыл бұрын

    Fanrtastic less is more approach. Cheers Adam

  • @davidligon6088
    @davidligon6088 Жыл бұрын

    How did you add contrast to only the foreground tree?

  • @andrewsimpson5436
    @andrewsimpson5436 Жыл бұрын

    OH OH you forgot to push the saturation slider a lot. LOL Interesting to see some of your processing and the finished results.

  • @chrisburgess9919
    @chrisburgess9919 Жыл бұрын

    I was interested to see that you edit your fuji X-T4 RAW files in Lr. I take it you're happy with the results, no 'worming' issues in areas of high detail? Thanks again for another great video. 👍

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    I haven't noticed anything weird but perhaps Im not looking close enough?

  • @Naked69Eye
    @Naked69Eye Жыл бұрын

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  • @russellschundler6559
    @russellschundler6559 Жыл бұрын

    I noticed you did not use the luminosity masking function in Lightroom. What do you feel are the short comings of the Lightroom luminosity masking tool?

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Im more used to luminosity masks in PS to be honest, I just find there to be more control.

  • @davidligon6088
    @davidligon6088 Жыл бұрын

    In the first image, I’m not sure why you didn’t do a sky mask and invert it for the ground to increase the whites. Also, you could have done a gradient mask for the ground. Or a Liminance mask intersected with n inverted sky mask. It would be interesting to see the difference between these techniques and a Photoshop mask.

  • @kevinj909
    @kevinj909 Жыл бұрын

    When processing images, what percentage are you using lightroom vs PS? Just curious...thanks in advance.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    70 Lightroom, 30 PS

  • @robertparsons558
    @robertparsons558 Жыл бұрын

    I always find it interesting to see how photographers/artists interpret a scene and what catches their eye. I get the impression that you view a subject much as a painter would, have you ever painted? After post processing the images look more "painterly" for want of a better word, highlighting and perhaps emphasising features that caught your attention. After your short video on the GF 20-35mm zoom I now have to decide whether to keep or part exchange the 23mm.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha I'm in the same dilemma, sell the 23mm or keep it.

  • @barryscully1820
    @barryscully1820 Жыл бұрын

    Do you have any suggestions for getting prints? I haven't found a place yet since moving back to BC/Canada to get good quality prints (framed or not) done and I have a few people requesting them again. I'm not sure if you do all your own in house, but I don't have that option at the moment.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    No, sorry I do all of my own printing

  • @barryscully1820

    @barryscully1820

    Жыл бұрын

    @@QuietLightPhoto Thanks for getting back to me. Maybe we will run into you in November as we will be doing some photography around the island most of the month. Say hi if you see a bright yellow pickup and offroad trailer (or now you know how to avoid us :) )

  • @joelrollins2841
    @joelrollins2841 Жыл бұрын

    Adam, a quick question....I noticed your raw files were captured using Adobe RGB color space. I know the image is rendered in whatever color space you've assigned in your post processing editor, so I'm wondering if there is an advantage to capturing the image in Adobe RGB vs sRGB? Thanks.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    RGB has a wider colour gamut than sRGB

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    @user-db3zz4xt6f Жыл бұрын

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    @user-db3zz4xt6f Жыл бұрын

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  • @tommygialosai9701
    @tommygialosai9701 Жыл бұрын

    sa

  • Жыл бұрын

    If it’s flat, I don’t take the picture.

  • @Alister_Benn
    @Alister_Benn Жыл бұрын

    The longer I’m involved with photography the less I process images. So often over editing ruins excellent images by ignoring the feeling of the landscape.

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    Couldnt agree more.

  • @photoman3579
    @photoman3579 Жыл бұрын

    You seem to under expose your shots why is this ??

  • @QuietLightPhoto

    @QuietLightPhoto

    Жыл бұрын

    I expose for the highlights