5 beginner landscape photography editing tips (no matter software)

Landscape photography editing is the last important step in making photographs.

But in front of your computer with Lightroom or any other post-processing software open, the many menus and sliders might seem overwhelming.In this video I'm going to share 5 tips to get you started with editing so that you can make reliable and natural looking landscape photos.

Many beginners focus too much on the editing software itself without paying enough attention to the actual photo.The same happens the first time you pick up a camera. Your focus is on the buttons and settings and not so much on what is in front of you.

Which sliders and how much adjustment to make when you post-process landscape photos are dependent on what you want to achieve. This is what this video is all about.

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[KimRormarkphotography]

If you edit your landscape photos, what do you find the most challenging?

[eeanderson]

I tried Lr and liked it a lot but it was too expensive for a hobbiest. So now use Luminar and Aurora. I use a Sony a6000 with standard 16 mm wide angle lens. My normal PP workflow for panos is: 1) convert bracketed photos in Aurora 2019 to single HDRs. Sometimes necessary to do lens correction and transform.; 2) Make one pano from JPEG HDRs using Microsoft ICE; 3) Open pano in Aurora which often makes a very nice automatic photo (not too much HDR). I will initially crop and rotate in Aurora, and do some lens correction and transforming. 4) if I need to erase stuff (dust spots) or take advantage of other Luminar stuff I export directly into Luminar 4. But Luminar will crash sometimes during edits and not auto save. When making pano shots I've learned not to zoom in too close as will need lots of space to crop later.

[thomasfarley]

Thanks for the video. I am never sure what to do with dull skies. Like the one you have in your example with the Italian Cypress trees on that hill. I might have something very interesting in the foreground, but I have dull or murky skies behind it. It is rare that I have deep blue skies and even rarer to have deep blue skies with fluffy white clouds. So, what to do with an otherwise interesting subject when the sky above it is dull and plain? Should I try to change the color or saturation of the sky in RAW? I would need to be selective in moving the sliders since they ordinarily impact the entire image. Using the example you showed in the video, how would you improve that sky in editing? Thanks, Thomas