Stop taking scenery snaps and start creating breathtaking works of landscape photography art that people will fall in love with.
If you’ve ever been frustrated that the landscape photos from your camera don’t portray the magical scenes you witnessed, then this is eBook will open up a new world of creative possibilities …
- Transform your dull RAW files into breathtaking images.
- Discover and learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s landscape-friendly tools for maximum impact.
- Get ten free handpicked Lightroom presets to use again and again.
- Learn fun landscape techniques that will extend your creative horizon.
- Create eye-catching Landscape photos with exposure blending techniques.
Loving Landscapes will demystify the landscape photography workflow by sharing almost every technique, trick and hack that authors Todd and Sarah have accumulated over the past 20 years of photographing nature together.
Make the most of your next outdoor photography adventure with Loving Landscapes.
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What you’ll discover in this huge 200+ page eBook
Loving Landscapes is a digital landscape photography workflow and post-processing guidebook. It is crammed full of highly detailed information that will simplify and streamline your image capture and transform your post-processing skills.
- You’ll learn from over 20 years experience in Landscape Photography.
- You’ll follow a refreshing, inspiring and easy-to-understand style of teaching.
- You’ll discover a beautiful design, with loads of visuals and pictures.
- You’ll have supporting RAW images and ten Lightroom presets to use along with the book.
Here’s a peek at the Table Of Contents
Table of contents
- A word from dPS4
- About the Authors 4
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- Introduction 6
- What’s covered in Loving Landscapes 7
- What’s not covered in Loving Landscapes 9
- A disclaimer or two 9
- Required course materials 9
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- What do you want from your photography? 10
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- Chapter one: image capture 11
- Image sharpness 12
- Achieving correct exposure 16
- Achieving correct color in-camera 23
- Minimize noise to maximize image quality 23
- Achieving maximum resolution 26
- Capture in RAW 26
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- Chapter two: computers and backups 27
- In the field: backup 29
- In the studio: backups 30
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- Chapter three: RAW workflow for landscape photography 31
- Introducing RAW format 33
- RAW vs JPEG 33
- Keep it RAW 34
- RAW post-processing 34
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- Chapter four: file management in Lightroom 35
- The Lightroom Library module 37
- Lightroom catalogs 38
- Importing to Lightroom from existing folders 39
- Importing to Lightroom from a card 43
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- Chapter five: organizing your images in Lightroom 46
- How organized is organized enough 47
- Metadata – Santa’s little helper 48
- Image Collections 49
- Smart Collections 50
- Culling Images 53
- Rating and ranking images 53
- Using ratings and metadata- library filters 55
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- Chapter six: outputting images from Lightroom 57
- Lightroom Publish Services 59
- Exporting from Lightroom 60
- Output sharpening 62
- Sharpening for screen use 62
- Sharpening for print 63
- The Lightroom to Photoshop workflow 64
- Let’s get out of this Library 64
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- Chapter seven: single-exposure post-processing 65
- The Lightroom Develop Module 67
- Develop Module: what’s in a name? 67
- Getting into Develop mode 68
- Enhacing landscape images – four key values 68
- Exposure adjustments 69
- Lightroom exposure controls 70
- Color adjustments 70
- Lightroom color control 70
- Lightroom contrast controls 73
- Image quality 74
- Lightroom’s image quality tools 74
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- Chapter eight: single-exposure post-processing walkthrough 76
- The Graduated Filter tool 85
- The Adjustment Brush tool 87
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- Chapter nine: other Lightroom tools and features 95
- Controlling noise 97
- Lens Correction 98
- The HSL / Color / B&W panel 99
- Painting with color 104
- The Split Toning panel 108
- Lightroom Presets 111
- The Effects panel 114
- The Radial Filter 115
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- Chapter ten: single-exposure techniques 117
- Photo-Impressionism 118
- Zooming and camera spin 122
- Camera spin 123
- Long Exposures using ND filters 124
- ‘Milky Way’ photography 126
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- Chapter eleven: Photoshop for landscape photographers129
- Photoshop for landscape photography-the basics 131
- The Photoshop Tool Palette 132
- Introducing Layers 137
- Layer masks 138
- Advanced Content Replacement-Photoshop vs. Lightroom 139
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- Chapter twelve: Multi-exposure workflow 154
- What is multi-exposure post-processing?156
- Exposure blending to expand dynamic range 157
- Tips for photographing exposure blended images 157
- Exposure blending using the Gradient tool 158
- Exposure blending using complex selections 166
- Exposure blending using a luminosity mask 173
- Merging ‘best elements’ 182
- Tips for photographing for best-element composites 183
- Star trails and light painting 189
- Post-processing star trail sequences 193
- HDR 197
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- Happy (star) trails! 206
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