How To Edit Sunrise and Sunset Photos

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[ddki]

I think for me the biggest challenge is dealing with bright colors - How far is too far? That is always in the back of my mind.

[JoyKachina]

I always love going back to these editing videos to be reminded..Less is More...Thanks Will. 🙂

[homeinguelph]

Thanks for the refresher! I almost didn't watch it because I figure I know the basics of lightroom pretty well. But watching it, I realize I am in a bit of a rut, doing the same things the same way. Thanks for the kick!

[lphilpot]

Watching your videos is like a chef adding spices and flavorings to their ingredients chest. Just watch, listen, soak it in and then it'll pop up again later while I'm editing! It really doesn't apply to this image, but one technique I found can work on smooth water if appropriate is to lower the shadows areas (through a mask) and maybe just a very little, bump the mids / highs to maintain definition. Those darker shadows really can accentuate reflections when the water is smooth.

Excellent video.

[allenahale]

Very impressive! Of course you show us how to do things, but more importantly ... you explain WHY we need to do what we are being shown how to do. You are a consummate teacher. "Give a man a fish, he eats for the day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for ever." You are teaching us techniques so that we can develop our own personal styles for our art.

[barryashenhurst]

Useful advice in a commonsense vid. Well done, William

[uncleeric]

I really need to thank you for these videos. They've transformed the way I edit and see my images, especially regarding different treatments for near and far elements in the image.

[hughchisholm-ns]

I really like your approach to processing your photos. Quite different from most other YouTube landscape photographers I follow. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us.

[genemaitland]

Excellent post-processing tips, Will!

[loricanton]

Really enjoyed you embracing your own style and reality look, I tend to forget. Any advice on forest colors

[richardpoland]

Great tips William. Love how you explain which tools you use to achieve certain effect. Not many photographers show how they get certain effect by indicating which tools to use and how to change sliders. They explain what tools do but don't relate it to what they do to effect the image. Is it a problem printing using Adobe landscape? Have heard it generally will be outside color space of the printer? What color space do you use in PS? RGB or CYMK? Seems like very difficult to get print to look like monitor, i.e. calibrating monitor, color space, printer profiles, paper profiles, colors out of gamut, camera profiles, etc. Could you do a video on that, getting prints to look like monitor?

[vincecicero]

Great use of segmentation in the overall image and separation of tonal qualities to add depth and intesest. Great approach to post. in Lr.

[davidligon]

Exceptional video for processing. I can see I have room for improvement in some areas. Thank you for this.

[rosssayer]

Really enjoyable to watch that edit William, I for one get a lot out of these videos so thank you for sharing your skills, very much appreciated.

[CarolineOrdHume]

Your tips are always appreciated Will. I hope you have, or are having, a good autumn. Best wishes

[leannecullen]

Another excellent informative and interesting video. Editing is fast becoming far less daunting and that's completely down to your tuition and videos.

[_Tim]

Interesting tips on the subtleties of processing. Thanks
Cheers

[mozzamhosein]

Thank you for sharing your editing technique. I do like your approach. Thanks

[ilyanazarenko]

Brilliant as usually! Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

[benjamingrunwald]

This is a very informative tutorial. It will help me to fix some of my struggles in editing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.