Greetings from the USA. I have to tell you that your channel is one of my very favorites on bird & wildlife photography. I’m learning so much from you. I’m very interested in creating better habitat photos, and understanding composition and processing. Thanks for sharing your expertise, you’re a wonderful teacher!

@WalksOnTheWildSide

Жыл бұрын

Hi. I'm very glad you're enjoying the videos and I really appreciate your lovely comment. Thanks for for watching. Best wishes from the UK.

Excellent. Learnt heaps! Thankyou

@WalksOnTheWildSide

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Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

This is really great video for me. Lot of editing tips and tricks 🎉

@WalksOnTheWildSide

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

Like everything else, photo editing is something you learn and get better at over time. everyone has their own techniques. In the end, it is whatever works best for you!

Great video, I really enjoy your creativity and photo editing eye Scott! Have you considered making your Luts available? I used to do other types of photography where editing provided a little more margin for creativity whereas wildlife definitely asks for moderation and subtle changes. Thank you!

@WalksOnTheWildSide

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Hi Alexandre. Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Maybe one day I might make the LUTs available, I'm not sure there would be many people interested. Perhaps I could make a video showing people how to create LUTs and presets too? Thanks for watching, and I agree with your comments about moderation and subtlety.

@alexandrelafontaine6789

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@@WalksOnTheWildSide Great idea! Luts are a great tool in PS that not that many photographers are using!

Let me start by saying that you are my favorite bird photography KZreadr by far. I have learned so much from you. On to the comment though: I feel like this video should be instead titled “How I would edit in Luminar Neo if I had to.” I say this because after spending all of this time watching the video, I can’t find a reason why I should switch from Ps/Lightroom to Luminar Neo. After watching your videos earlier, those are the tools I use (especially the layering in Ps + Topaz). Are you implying with this video that you actually use Luminar now? Have you decided that it’s better and that I should switch? I kept watching the video and I can’t see any advantage. It just feels like a big Luminar ad to me. That’s ok by the way, I just think it should be titled that way. Thanks so much for all your videos. They are incredible.

@WalksOnTheWildSide

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Hi Chris. No I've not switched from one software to another. I've always used variety of different editing tools. This video wasn't specifically about the advantages of Neo, it was about those two things that I think are important in any editing process. 1 Planning and 2 making small changes that add up to a big change, rather than just using a load of one single effect. Hence the title "Two steps to better photo editing". The reason I chose to do it in Neo was because I was sharing a Neo discount code. It would have been incongruous to edit in LR/PS. Just the in same way as if I was ever sharing an Adobe discount code, I wouldn't then go and do the edits in Neo, or Topaz or whatever else. And don't worry, I've got a LR video coming soon.

@chrisroks3701

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@@WalksOnTheWildSide Thanks so much for the thorough reply. I want to reiterate just one more time how much I love your videos and look forward to each one. Keep up the amazing work!

I feel like there are some ethical grey areas here. Depending on how and where the photo is presented an edited photo could be misinformation, and maybe the edited photo will get more attention that it really deserves. This isn't an issue if the edits are obvious because then they don't deceive people, but it maybe is with naturalistic looking edits. To take it to extremes I could get a lot of attention if I faked a photo of a lion in my local park in London and people believed it was real. Of course almost no-one would believe that, but if they did it would probably be unethical. In this video the edit to selectively brighten the iris but not the pupil makes me a bit uncomfortable - is that presenting misinformation about what a puffin looks like, that will misinform people about the nature of the species and maybe mean when they see a real puffin it won't look good in comparison? Or photographers who want to share a less manipulated picture will be unfairly crowded out of the market for people's attention?

@barneylaurance1865

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I realise that all photos are works of interpretation, so I'm not suggesting there should be any absolute rule against post-processing or that even possible to present a completely un-manipulated photo. I'm curious also about how much professional wildlife photography is self-published vs published by an organisation, and if many organisations would have rules against things like iris brightening. I think National Geographic would not allow it.

@WalksOnTheWildSide

Жыл бұрын

Hi Barney. There's lot to answer in these two comments, and I've been trying to write a concise enough answer to fit in a comment. I've come to the conclusion that the best way to answer it would be in a video. Would you mind if I quote your comment and make a video out of it? It might not be for a few weeks.

@barneylaurance1865

Жыл бұрын

@@WalksOnTheWildSide Hello - yes you're very welcome to quote me. I'll subscribe but if you can drop me a message to say when the video is coming out that would be great - maybe an Instagram dm? I should be easy to find.

@kimraymond2749

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@@WalksOnTheWildSide I'll look forward to that. It raises so many philosophical questions around individual and social purpose, art v. technical accuracy, integrity, tools and skills. Going by your past videos it should be a good one.

@barneylaurance1865

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@@kimraymond2749 Yes, questions about the various roles of artist, scientist, and science communicator that someone doing wildlife photography might occupy - how those roles can co-exist and whether it's possible to separate them.