The Photo EDITING Trick EVERY Photographer SHOULD Know!

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In this week’s episode, we review the photo editing trick every photographer should know. This "trick" is something I've been applying to my photos quite often recently and I'm really enjoying the focused attention it provides while at the same time creating a much more dynamic lighting situation. It's often that we receive flat lighting conditions with landscape photography - either on cloudy overcast days or days with full light, but this technique will vastly improve your photos when you get those conditions. I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.

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[MarkDenneyPhoto]

✅QUICK QUESTION: Do often use masks when editing your photos?

[lucacanever]

Great tip and great video, thank you so much. And yes I do use a lot of masking. One tip on the circular mask, if you hold the alt key while dragging the mask you can make it asymmetrical.

[dougiemilnephotography]

I've been doing this for a few years. But rather than just bunging it in the middle of the shot, I centre it on whatever I want to draw the viewer's eye to - just to really emphasize the focal point.

[ikkuvaljo]

Half way through the video. Are you re-inventing vignette? :D

[cameronfaili]

I mean - this one is so obvious that I can’t believe I didn’t think of this all the time! Pure gold - thx bud.

[mhsch]

Hello Mark,
Thanks for your video, which is very inspiring and a new approach to image editing.
To make sure I have understood it correctly, I would like to repeat what I have learned from your video. Please correct me if I am wrong:

1. you do NOT underexpose the image in camera, you expose TTR
2. in Lightroom you do the "normal" steps (as needed) such as adjusting the white balance, using linear gradients for the foreground and/or sky, dodging and burning, removing small (distracting) objects, cropping, etc.
3. if you have edited the image to your liking, i.e. you have already started editing the image here, now reduce the exposure globally by approx. 1 stop (depending on the subject, it may be a little more or less)
4. as a final step, apply a fully feathered radial gradient mask where you increase the exposure by more or less the same value you reduced in step 3
5. from here on there is no more additional work, maybe just a few small tweaks, but usually the processing of the image ends after step 4.

And many thanks not only to your sponsor, but to you for the great videos on YT; please keep up the good work!

Best,
Mark H.

[Coatsey]

Brilliant Mark, thank you. Even though I’ve unsubscribed from Adobe, not due to Price, but due to their shady practices, I still watch your videos because they’re useful regardless of the editing platform you use. Thank you.

[brucekraft]

You have knocked it out of the park with this one, Mark! Thanks for posting this.

[SONNTAG]

Thanks Mark, love your work and look forward to your YouTube broadcasts, great of you to share your talent with us.

[JoshChadwick]

You started to get into this, but I feel like the first step before applying masking edits is to ask yourself "where do I want the viewer to look?" Once you have a focal point in mind, you can start to mask out exposures to help highlight the main areas you want the viewer to pay attention to. I use similar techniques to what you've shown here, but it's always interesting to see another photographer's workflow. Keep up the great content.

[kevinmcdonnell]

Mark. Been following you for several years and loved your own growth of skills, experience and ability to present. Love these videos where you share such awesome tips. Thanks from Central Coast Australia.

[zezus]

Yours 'before and after' are just a classic in photo editing. Thanks for another great video

[jlid]

Hey Mark, excellent video! I had quite a few pictures I took at a local park the other day, and after I watched this video, I tried this technique on quite a few shots....and it did a great job on them! Kicked them up a notch so to speak. Great tip, thanks!

[celinemorisset]

Hi Mark, really appreciate this tip on radial gradient and how easy you make it. Thank you for sharing, love it! Yes, very useful.

[shlomoeshet]

In your own word: a fantastic trick! Thanks for that and for sharing some of your gorgeous photos.

[LindaEBrown-fi]

Great educational opportunity to focus the sight. Loved it!

[pederkristensen]

Thanks Mark for a great tip and demo. Looking forward to see some great pics from your trip.

[HoustonBrownPhotography]

Been doing this for a few yesrs now. It makes a huge difference to most photographs and directs where you want the focus of the image to be.

[rayasiala]

Absolutely amazing video! I cannot wait to try this and apply it to my landscapes because they are really boring when I look at them. This trick just gonna make all the difference.

[brucedelorme]

Good stuff Mark. Tried it and kind of liked the results... in the Highlsnds st present and it's rained 3 straight days hard. Still love it.