This winter of 2015-2016 was a strange one with few snow and warm temperatures. But one day it snowed heavily so I decided to take my photo gear and head into the forest. I packed my Canon 5D Mark ii and Canon 60D, my GoPro 4 Black edition, tripod (Manfrotto 055cx pro3), directional microphone for… Continue Reading
The goal for this kind of edits is to show that you can achieve a good effect in post process even though you’re spending something like 1 minute on the photo. The basic condition is to have a good photo to start with! Enjoy the video and if you have questions or something to say… Continue Reading
It’s time for another 60 seconds editing using Lightroom CC. In this video I edit a landscape photo of a sunset. I start my editing by straighten the photo using the Crop tool from Lightroom. Sometimes you can get confused about your horizontal especially when you have no helping elements to refer to. Also I’m… Continue Reading
In this video I’m doing a speed retouching in Lightroom CC on a portrait of a girl dressed in traditional Romanian costume from Bucovina historical region. First I add more details to the highlights. Then add some local details to the face by increasing the Exposure to this area. Then I increase the saturation of… Continue Reading
In this speed editing tutorial using Lightroom CC I’m retouching a landscape photo made in Dolomites Mountains at Cinque Torri (The Five Towers). In the photo I have some flowers as foreground elements and the stone tower formations in the background. First I’m checking Enable profile correction, Remove chromatic aberration, adjust the Masking for better… Continue Reading
In this speed editing tutorial I’ll use Lightroom CC to enhance light rays in the forest. First of all I should mention that you need to capture rays of light in your photo. This tutorial will not show you how to create rays of light that are already in the photo. The main goal is… Continue Reading
Here is a simple way to edit sunrises using Lightroom and I’m doing this in 60 seconds (real time tutorial). First of all I’m checking Enable Profile Correction to correct the perspective of the wide lens, Remove Chromatic Aberration, adjust Masking for better Sharpening and add a Luminance value to reduce the noise. Then I… Continue Reading
This speed editing tutorial in Lightroom is for a quick black and white conversion. After the initial conversion to black and white I’m decreasing the overall Exposure of the photo. Add some details in the Shadows and dropping down the Highlights. This will decrease the contrast in the photo so I’m decreasing the Blacks of… Continue Reading
A pinhole camera is a camera with no lens and the light enters a simple box only through a really small aperture called pinhole and affects the film on the other side of the camera. The main thing is not letting light inside the box of the camera except for that pinhole. That is why… Continue Reading
As a landscape photographer you often encounter situations when the weather is really bad and the fog, the clouds and the atmosphere lead to low contrast photos. In these kind of situations you need to know how to recover detail and contrast in your photos. Although I shot the photos from the tutorial with a… Continue Reading