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Exposure blending video tutorial
by Adam Gibbs
The dynamic range that modern-day digital cameras can capture in one exposure is phenomenal. However, maintaining detail within both highlights and shadows is one of the most significant challenges for landscape photographers. Although the latest cameras can record scenes with substantial discrepancies between deep shadows and the brightest of highlights, some scenes require a helping hand with either graduated neutral density filters or post-processing techniques.
Photographing the World 1 Landscape Photography and Post-Processing
by Elia Locardi
This tutorial will take you from the on-location capture all the way through Elia's post-processing techniques in the studio. To produce a truly unique landscape tutorial unlike any other, we traveled to both Iceland and New Zealand so we could teach lessons in two completely different climates and seasons. From waterfalls and ice caves in Iceland to lakes and ocean sides in New Zealand, Photographing the World has something for everyone interested in landscape photography.
Photographing the World 2 Cityscape, Astrophotography, and Advanced Post-Processing
by Elia Locardi
This tutorial will take you from the on-location capture all the way through Elia's post-processing techniques in the studio. To produce a truly unique landscape tutorial unlike any other, we traveled to Italy, Cambodia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Zealand so we could teach lessons in a variety of shooting situations. From the ancient temples of Angkor Wat to the modern skylines of Singapore and Hong Kong, Photographing the World has something for everyone interested in cityscape photography.
Photographing the World 3 Advanced Cityscapes
by Elia Locardi
In this tutorial, Elia explores his favorite country, Italy, as well as two of the largest mega cities in the world, New York City and Dubai. Building upon the first two Photographing the World series, part III explores more advanced editing techniques as well as unique capturing methods in the field. Elia finds himself capturing stars in a city, dealing with harsh weather, scouting towns he has never previously visited, gaining access to unique rooftop views, using tilt shift lenses and Gigapan hardware, and even capturing the magnificant fog of Dubai.
Photographing the World: Japan
by Elia Locardi
If you want to take your photos to the next level or become a professional landscape photographer, this video series is for you. Join world-renowned photographer Elia Locardi on a trip around Japan in this 14-hour-long tutorial that covers everything involved in capturing and editing world-class travel photography.
Dark Processing Masterclass
by Enrico Fossati
Dark Processing Masterclass is a collection of instructional videos to process landscape photographs with a dark and epic mood. I produced the first series of this kind of pictures back in 2013 and I released the first version of this video in 2017. Actually Dark Processing is one of the most popular and imitated post-processing styles among landscapers. Now I produced a new and comprehensive bundle of videos about this technique for overhaul and transform any landscape in an epic and cinematic scene.
A Journey into the world of forests
by Enrico Fossati
A Journey into the world of forests A Journey into the world of forests is a collection of instructional videos to process forest landscape photographs with a particular fantasy and painterly feeling I developed over the years. After many years I spent shooting forests and streams I decided to build a collection of videos focused on this particular genre of photography that I particularly love. The masterclass will talk about inspiration, and processing forest scenes to render them with a special fantasy and painterly style. The masterclass is composed of 6 Videos plus an introduction in which I explain from start to finish the process of the images for a duration of about 6 hours. The process explained is characterized by a strong artistic component where a certain amount of manual work is needed. Once acquired, the necessary skill can grant you the ability to develop your own unique pictures.
"High Key Processing" - Start to Finish Video
by Eric Bennet
This tutorial video contains 4 chapters, where I first cover the theory behind High Key Processing, and then show the full workflow and techniques I used in order to process these 3 images from start to finish. I use high key processing in some of my images in order to give them a surreal, pure, and bright feeling. The main techniques covered are, but not limited to: RAW Processing, Color Management, Adding Midtone Contrast, Creating Micro Contrast, Using Luminosity Masks, Raising Exposure While Preserving Highlights, Enhancing Atmosphere, and Cloning Out Distractions. Most importantly, you will learn what kind of lighting, composition, and subject matter lend themselves best to the unique look of high key processing, so that you know when to apply it to your own images. This video is intended for photographers that have already seen some of my other videos, where I spend more time explaining basic techniques; here, I mainly spend time explaining the techniques that are not shown in my other videos.
Post Production: Cantabria
by Francesco Gola
Optimizing the workflow allows you to improve your post-production and thus achieve more easily and quickly the desired results. The course is structured in different sections and videos, covering in over 3 hours all the post-production topics from the RAW management to the export of the file. Following the videos, you will learn a new workflow that can be immediately applied to your images.
Zelda Start to Finish
by Marco Grassi
Learn how to get something out of nothing and turn an unusable file into a great image with this in depth tutorial. Scroll below to see the before and after and read more details.
Photo Editing Tutorial for Architecture Photos
by Michael Breitung
In this photo editing tutorial, I share my complete workflow for processing Architecture Photos in Lightroom and Photoshop. I love to take cityscape and architecture photos during my travels. My favorite time to do so is during the blue hour. The color contrast between the blue sky and the incandescent lights in the city was just fantastic at that time. During a visit to Venice, I captured many such photos. One of those is the photo you see in the before-and-after comparison below. The first photo shows the out-of-camera RAW file without any settings applied. The second image shows the final result of the photo editing. In the tutorial, you’ll learn every technique I used to create it.
Photo Editing Basics
by Michael Breitung
On this site you find a set of basic photo editing tutorials, which provide the foundation for the more advanced post processing techniques I show in my other tutorials. Watching the videos below you learn how to use Photoshop for basic and also more advanced photo editing.
Start to finish processing tutorial: seascape 'sanctuary'
by Michael Shainblum
Landscape Photography Photoshop Tutorial: In This tutorial I will explain in detail the step by step techniques, used to create one of my favorite images “Sanctuary”.
Start to finish photography editing tutorial: blending for dynamic range and processing tough situations
by Michael Shainblum
Landscape Photography post processing tutorial: In this landscape photography editing tutorial, I will explain in detail the step by step techniques used to create one of my favorite images, “Phoenix”. This will include the overall process from start to finish of how I edit my landscape images. You will be provided with the relevant files to follow along with during this photography tutorial. We will begin with a Lightroom session, focused on basic edits and organizing the files. Then opening those files into Photoshop to include more advanced image blending, dodging, burning and techniques that will allow you to have full control over your images.
Where Art Meets Architecture 4 How to Photograph Luxury Architecture and Real Estate
by Mike Kelley
Fstoppers has teamed up with Mike Kelley for the fourth installment of Where Art Meets Architecture. With 31 Lessons and over 14 hours of content, Mike takes you to some of the most expensive real estate in Los Angeles to show you his updated process for photographing luxury homes.
Essential Photoshop for Landscape Photography
by Nick Page
Covered in this course Setting up photoshop Round tripping between Lightroom and Photoshop Setting up and saving a workspace Utilizing Smart objects Using Adjustment Layers Using Layer Masks Using Pixel Layers Using Luminosity Masks Using Luminosity Selections Cleaning up images Exposure Blending Focus Stacking Dual Processing and much much more.
Mastering Luminosity Masks II
by Nick Page
Creation tools and methods Altering Luminosity masks Exposure blending using Luminosity masks Exposure blending difficult scenes using Luminosity masks Dodging and Burning using Luminosity masks Adding selective contrast using Luminosity masks Creating Depth using Luminosity masks Managing messy scenes using Luminosity masks Dual Processing using Luminosity masks The total runtime of this course is just over 2 hours over 10 videos.
Start to Finish - A Creative Puzzle
by Ryan Dyar
Creative vision in the field is what can lead to creative vision in post-processing. In this tutorial we go from taking the photos for our creative puzzle in the field, to piecing them together on the computer. Starting with a multi-layered perspective blend and sky relocation, we go on to perform an entire workflow consisting of RAW processing, range masks, focus stacking, luminosity masks, light creation, warping, liquifying, pinching, atmosphere enhancements, texture adjustments and much more. This tutorial covers the modern techniques many of the most creative photographers are using today, yet very rarely reveal.