Outdoor Lifestyle Photography with Dakota Snider

Balance your color, light, and contrast to transform your photos! Join Dakota Snider to learn the best tips and tricks to level up your outdoor lifestyle photography.

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00:00 Start
02:08 Dakota Intro
04:34 Project intro, browsing Lightroom Catalog
09:18 Narrowing down on an image from shoot to start with
12:32 Camera Dakota uses
15:17 Editing 16:9 hero image for web: crop, level, moving subject
17:46 Adjusting colors and lighting
21:25 Using selections to edit the sky, mountains, and boat independently
25:23 Overall image adjustments to bring 3 selections together
27:52 Optimizing for web output
29:22 Looking for minor imperfections to edit out, dust or scratches
33:20 Crop the image into different formats changing the focus
36:57 Selecting another image to edit based on client criteria
42:52 Editing a banner for web: crop and moving subject
45:08 Adjusting colors and lighting in second image
48:05 Playing with emphasizing sunlight
51:15 Making overall adjustments on image, changing the crop
57:49 Selecting a boat photo to edit next
1:02:29 Editing a banner for social media: crop and moving subject
1:06:24 Adjusting colors and lighting in third image
1:07:16 Selecting objects, to edit 2 people to make them more visible
1:11:15 Changing color profile to stylize photo
1:13:35 Adjusting clarity, minor extra tweaks to find an emotional vibe
1:17:08 Choosing a car photo for a Speed edit
1:19:30 Car speed edit in black and white
1:24:18 Recap