Course Overview
This course covers everything from mastering the black & white workflow, getting the best results with your raw files before making them into panoramas, adding drama to photos, correctly exposing highlights and recovering drama without too much of the “HDR look”, stylizing photos, bringing life to dull photos, shooting dramatic foggy photos, shooting straight into a sunset, selective clarity enhancements, how to get the best out of your night photos, recovering boring skies and much, much more.
Pont Neuf Panorama
Mont Saint Michel Panorama
Pont Neuf Black and White
Eiffel Tower from Underneath
Pont Alexandre III
Eiffel Tower from Pont Alexandre III Black and White
Paris Skyline Sunset
Paris Skyline Night
Mont Saint Michel
Eiffel Tower
Lessons
20
Length
3 Hours 26 Minutes
Level
Beginner
Required
Lightroom & Photoshop
Lessons: Part 1
Dramatic Black & Whites
Mastering my full workflow for dramatic black & white photos in Lightroom
RAW Files
How to get the best out of your raw files before you make them into panoramas
Exposing for Highlights
How to correctly expose for the highlights and recover drama without having too much of an “HDR look”
Stylization
Stylizing boring color photos
Bringing Life to Sunrise
Bringing to life a dull sunrise photo
Drama & Fog
Expanding on dramatic & foggy photos
Retouch Direct Sunset
Retouching a sunset photo shot right into the lens
Lessons: Part 2
Night Photos
How to get the best out of a night photo
Fixing Flat Skies
How to get drama when you have just a flat blue sky
Selective Clarity & Composition
Understanding composition and using selective clarity
Panorama Basics
Making a panorama and correcting serious distortion problems.
Speeding Up Retouching
How to speed up your retouching process by using synchronization.
Creative with Boring Colors
How to get creative when the original colors are boring.
Contrast & Colors
Playing around with contrast in cool and warm colors.
Lessons: Part 3
Middle-of-the-Night Drama
Making a middle-of-the-night drama photo.
Black & White Process for Drama
One of my favorite black and white conversion process for super drama.
Recovering Lost Color Information
Selective clarity and how to recover lost color information and rules of composition.
Color Long Exposures
Going color with long exposures photos and getting rid of the long exposure color cast.
Guiding the Eyes of the Viewer
Retouching a photo after sunset and guiding the eyes of the viewer.
Retouching when No White Balance Fits
Retouching a photo taken in the middle of the night and what to do when no basic white balance settings fit.