Taking the Shot
Lesson 6 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Taking the Shot
Lesson 6 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
6. Taking the Shot
Lessons
Introduction
01:02 2Finding the Light
01:12 3Crafting Composition
00:49 4Histogram and Spot Metering
01:50 5ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
02:49 6Taking the Shot
02:12 7Capturing an HDR Image
02:23 8Shooting in Manual Mode Recap
01:18Introduction to Lightroom:
00:51 10Lightroom: Importing Albums and Organization
01:53 11Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking Images
01:11 12Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:03 13Lightroom: Color Profiles
01:17 14Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
01:47 15Lightroom: Gradients
01:21 16Lightroom: Brush Tool
00:56 17Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
01:07 18Lightroom: Contrast, Exposure and Saturation
01:00 19Lightroom: Healing Brush to Remove Objects
03:39 20Lightroom: Export and Share
00:46 21Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
03:32 22Photoshop: Stamp Tool
01:11 23Photoshop: Dodge and Burn
02:07 24Photoshop: Basic Adjustments
01:02 25Photoshop: Adding Clouds
01:54 26Photoshop: Quick Selection Tool
02:36 27Photoshop: Sharing your Images
00:34Lesson Info
Taking the Shot
So I'm gonna take this shot, and I'm using a shutter release cable, simply because I don't want to move the camera, when I'm at a lower shutter speed. But at an 80th of a second, you can also use the trigger. So, here we go. this is an 80th of a second F11 at ISO100. And I've got my shot. But just to be sure, I'm also going to hit the play button and I'm gonna look at my histogram, which is gonna show up again inside of my review, my image review, but also I have a little blinking highlight at the very, very, very, very back way back there in the sky, at the brightest point in the sky. And if you make sure that you always have your highlight warnings on, then you'll always know that there's an overexposure somewhere, if there is. Now, in this case, there is so little of a blink that I can hardly even see it. Which means, that I've got a little bit more headroom in the highlights, which means, if I brighten this whole shot up, I can get a little bit more exposure out of the shadows. And...
the darker the shadows, the more noise you usually get in 'em, so if you can brighten 'em up a little bit, you get a cleaner shot. So, I'm gonna actually slow this shutter speed down to a 60th of a second, and I'm gonna try it again. So, we're just gonna take another shot, and then I'm gonna play that and look at it, and now I'm starting to see the sky start to blow out a little bit right there at the crest of the mountain, way, way back there. And chances are, because I'm shooting raw, now, I'm not shooting a JPEG. I'm always shooting raw, which means I have the raw data, and that means that little tiny blinks out in the horizon, I can usually recover those. So, I'm gonna even go another step brighter. I'm gonna go to a 50th of a second, and I'm gonna take another shot. So, here we go, taking that shot. And confirming by playing and I can see, yup, now the sky is starting to blow out quite a bit more. I think I'll stop with that. I can still probably recover it, but I think I've got enough information in my shadows. I've got plenty of information in the highlights. I'm really liking this shot.
Ratings and Reviews
James Kitt
I wish more people would present this way! Each step from beginning to end demonstrated in short, concise and useful actions. Every tool and technique is something that I either use, (now better) or will start using because I now understand how to use it efficiently. I highly recommend this course!
Fauzan Pojam
Finally, a video tutorial that taught me what I've known on basic level and truly explore how to use it properly and what everything means. I've been waiting for something like this for awhile now. Greatly improves my technique now so thank you for this!
Angie Purcell
Great class wi with tons of helpful hints for both Lightroom and Photoshop.