I was looking through the photos that I shot recently and found that I liked two photos of the same scene. The first photo was nicely exposed and had water running through the crack of a rock. The second photo was exposed for the sky and had a wave crashing into the side of … Read more
Creating balanced exposures can be tough when you have a scene with a high tonal range. One of the best ways to balance a scene is to use a graduated neutral density filter. A neutral density filter is like sunglasses for you camera. With a graduated nd filter, only a portion of the filter … Read more
Astro photos are one of the hardest to process because you can’t see all the colors and details of the night sky. It is also very hard to get clean images from a single frame unless you have a full-frame camera and a fast lens. With stacking, you can combine multiple frames to reduce … Read more
Processing water to make the visual elements more prominent can make good photos better. There are a number of ways to this using Lightroom adjustment brushes. The three primary ways I process water is to change the brightness, contrast, and color. (This is unedited) For this photo, I wanted to make the waterfall … Read more
I’m starting a series of videos to show my editing process and workflow for landscape photos. In this first video I explain why I make certain adjustments and how to do it. This photo was taken at the Paradise Park Cliffs on the Big Island.