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Crafting the Landscape Photograph with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop

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Crafting the Landscape Photograph with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop by Ben Willmore reveals how to elevate landscape photography beyond capture to create visually captivating images. The book emphasises that successful post-processing using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop is not about correcting errors but an essential part of the artistic workflow. Willmore details techniques such as global and local adjustments, masking, layering, colour grading, dodging and burning, as well as advanced methods like multi-image composites and focus stacking. Readers learn to guide the viewer's eye and infuse images with emotion, balance, and depth, resulting in inspiring, professional-quality landscape photographs.
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This book is ideal for photographers who have a foundation in landscape photography and seek to master post-processing techniques to truly enhance their images. It suits serious amateurs and professionals looking to refine their workflow using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to produce compelling, high-quality landscape art.

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Realise the full potential of your photography and produce breathtaking landscape images using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop!

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Realise the full potential of your photography and produce breathtaking landscape images using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop!

You can follow all the tried-and-true rules of great landscape photography—shooting in great light, making sure to have a clear subject in the scene, and maximising sharpness throughout the image—and yet your photos can still somehow fall flat. Compared to others' work you see online or in print, there just seems to be something missing: your images are a bit bland, while others' work is often inspiring, lively, and beautiful. What gives?

The difference can often be found in the photographer's post-processing techniques in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop that they use to help direct the viewer's eye and make their images come alive. This kind of post-processing is not about "fixing mistakes" but is an essential part of the successful landscape photographer's contemporary workflow. Photographer and author Ben Willmore has spent over 30 years refining his own images and workflow, written more than a dozen books, and led photo workshops around the world. All in all, he has taught more than 100,000 photographers in person, so he knows the questions, concerns, and frustrations that landscape photographers have.

In this book, you'll learn how to use Lightroom Classic and Photoshop in order to transform your captures into something you can truly be proud of. From shooting techniques that help you capture the most robust RAW file at the highest quality possible to developing your images in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, Ben covers global and local adjustments, masking, selections, layers, colour, luminance, sharpness, multi-image composites, focus stacking, and much more.

Topics include:

  • Idealised colour and colour grading
  • Detail and sharpness
  • Separation and depth
  • Establishing balance
  • Creating compelling contrast
  • Leading the eye
  • Dodging and burning
  • Black and white
  • Eliminating artefacts and distractions
  • Adding emotion
  • Producing a coherent body of work
  • Panoramas and HDR

Ben teaches you not only about 'learning the tools' but about applying these tools to your work in such a way that you can direct the viewer's eye through your photograph via the use of contrast, brightness, colour, tone, framing, and detail. By learning how to use and apply these techniques to your own work in an intentional, expressive way, you'll be equipped to elevate your work and finally make the kinds of landscape photographs you've always wanted to make.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Accumulate Expertise
Chapter 1: Develop a Lightroom + Photoshop Mindset
Chapter 2: Working in Lightroom Classic
Chapter 3: Working in Photoshop

Part 2: Quality Considerations
Chapter 4: Eliminate Shooting Artifacts
Chapter 5: Extend Potential with Multiple Exposures
Chapter 6: Eliminate Processing Artifacts

Part 3: Essential Techniques
Chapter 7: Lead the Eye
Chapter 8: Add Dimension, Atmosphere, & Drama
Conclusion

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781681989891

Publisher: Rocky Nook

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Rocky Nook

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Ben Willmore's passion for photography has taken him to all 50 states in the USA and over 80 countries on all seven continents. He has been using Photoshop since the first day it was released, wrote his first book on the topic over 20 years ago, and was one of the first dozen people to be inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Ben has taught well over 100,000 people in person at events in 17 countries and his writing has been translated into 9 languages. Ben enjoys sharing his knowledge of photography and leads groups of photographers on workshops to remote areas in the Galapagos Islands, Africa, Iceland, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as somewhat less exotic places across the USA.

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