Over time I find a lot of people tend to make the same editing mistakes for wildlife photos. So I thought this week I’d cover 5 of the most common ones.
About Me
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
Thank you for this session. You mention the LR lesson. Will that apply to LR as well as LRC?
Hi Lisa. Lightroom and Lightroom Classic are 99% the same. LR has a few Ai tools that LRC doesn’t have, but overall they are identical in nearly every way when it comes to editing.
As I watch this video and your discussion of cropping, I see that a lot of the times that I remove excess room on my photos is by cropping to 4:5 (8X10) because my walls are covered with 8X10 framed photos.
I guess the 3:2 of a standard photo just seldom really appeals to me. I have come to appreciate 16:9 though.
It would be interesting to hear you discuss cropping to different ratios for different reasons.
When you talked about adjusting the background by reducing texture and clarity I stopped and took a look on my walls. It seems that none of my prints have a “fake” blur. I know I do it now and then, but apparently I never consider the shots worth printing? I do have a few with a black background though.
I am not seeing generative expand in Lightroom Classic. Where is it?
Hi. That feature is not in LR Classic.
I think it’s Lightroom only – not classic.
I think it’s just Lightroom, not LRC.
Hi Matt, I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your teaching style. It’s patient and informative without being preachy. I use Photoshop, so your tutorials on some of the features there have been especially helpful.
Look forward to more from you.
Thank you! Great reminder that so often less is more.
Kind of like flavoring a stew — start out with a tiny pinch of herb(s) and taste frequently. The advantage of editing photos is that usually there’s a way to go back as step or two, or to start over. Rather difficult to do with stew. Or soup.
(That tightly cropped grizzly was darn scary!)
Great things to think about to help develop that eye for how much is enough and knowig when to stop.
thank you, always useful tips!
Thanks Matt – I have definitely made a couple of these editing mistakes but thanks to you have learned from them.
Thank you!! Very informative.